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SDO Data Artifacts and Anticorrelation of Oscillations in the Sunspot Magnetic Field and Umbral Area

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The paper considers a special class of artifacts that appears in the useful signal when the source moves along a discrete matrix of the receiver. A parasitic component forms in the signal due to the displacement of the extreme value of the distributed field of the physical quantity from pixel to pixel (p2p effect). It is shown that a stepwise discretization of Δt < T (p2p) is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the formation of the p2p-artifact. For small field gradients (in particular, with good spatial resolution), the parasitic signal in the time series of the studied variable is either weakened or does not form at all. This assumption has been qualitatively verified by comparative analysis of sunspot data obtained with SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI. In addition, the Y-p2p effect, which is associated with sunspot displacement along the meridian and influences the process of long-period sunspot oscillations, is considered in detail based on SDO/HMI data. It was found that there is an inverse relationship between changes in the umbral area of a spot and variations of its magnetic field strength. This property of long-period sunspot oscillations as a single magnetic structure indicates the magnetic flux in the sunspot umbra is preserved, and it plays an extremely important role for our understanding of the physical nature of these oscillations.

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The work was supported by the Program KP 19-270 of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (Subprogram “Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Objects in the Solar System and Planetary Systems of Stars”).

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    O. A. Korolkova & V. I. Efremov

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Korolkova, O.A., Efremov, V.I. SDO Data Artifacts and Anticorrelation of Oscillations in the Sunspot Magnetic Field and Umbral Area. Geomagn. Aeron. 59, 827–831 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793219070181

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