Development of Flux Imbalances in Solar Activity Nests and the Evolution of Filament Channels
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Abstract
Bipolar active regions tend to emerge in tight clusters that persist at the same location in so-called activity nests. This study examines how flux evolves inside three different arrangements of interacting nests. Each contains ~2 × 1023 Mx, and each develops local flux imbalances that interact to form filaments and filament channels. They include: a pair of isolated closely packed nests; a pair of widely spaced nests with neighboring nests on their outer flanks; and a chain of three closely packed nests. These cases result in flux imbalances that are, respectively: large and concentrated on the outer edges of the nests; large and concentrated between the nests; and weak and concentrated on the outer edges of the nests. An amount of flux equivalent to a single large sunspot pair, but composed entirely of weaker flux densities (<∣ 50∣ G), is representative of the net fluxes measured for all three examples of multiple activity nests. In the majority of cases, the pools of net flux form filament channels, i.e., configurations with a clear horizontal component of the magnetic field directed along a polarity inversion line (PIL). This study proposes that large quiescent filaments and their channels are natural storehouses of magnetic energy constructed by surface flows out of slowly reconnecting pools of "orphaned" magnetic flux that originate at outer boundaries of decaying activity nests.
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