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A comparison of soft X-ray pictures of the Sun (S-054 experiment of Skylab) with K-line spectroheliograms (Mount Wilson) shows that the X-ray bright points tend to emerge randomly throughout the Ca network pattern. However, all those bright points that developed into active regions emerged at the boundaries of network cells. This suggests that the magnetic flux of active regions comes from greater depths in the convection zone than the shallow flux that gives rise to the random emergence of bright points.
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Howard, R., Fritzová-Švestková, L. & Švestka, Z. The birthplaces of active regions and X-ray bright points. Sol Phys 63, 105–111 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00155700
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