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Simultaneous observations of photospheric magnetic fields, Caii K emission, the ‘photospheric network’ and continuum faculae show that these four quantities are correlated in a complicated manner. The photospheric and calcium networks show increasing contrast with increasing magnetic field strength up to field strengths of about 500 G. Higher values of the magnetic field are found only in pores and sunspots. Continuum faculae also show increasing contrast with increasing magnetic field strength (even at the disk center), but this contrast reaches a maximum at field strengths of about 200 G. At higher field strengths, continuum faculae become monotonically darker until pore or spunspot conditions are reached.
Measurements of the photospheric network and the continuum faculae over a wide range of μ result in families of limb contrast curves. These curves indicate that the dependence on H is as important as the dependence on μ. They also indicate that the magnetic field has a preferred inclination of about 50°. The facular contrast shows little dependence on resolution. This is interpreted in terms of a geometric model in which faculae are clumps of many individual flux tubes. These tubes are closely packed and unresolvable in the photosphere, but are more widely spaced, and therefore resolvable, in the low chromosphere.
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Frazier, E.N. Multi-channel magnetograph observations. Sol Phys 21, 42–53 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00155772
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