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Title: Activity dependence of solar supergranular fractal dimension
Authors: Paniveni, U.
Krishan, Vinod
Singh, Jagdev
Srikanth, R.
Keywords: methods: data analysis
statistical techniques
image processing
Sun: activity
Sun granulation photosphere
Issue Date: 27-Nov-2009
Publisher: Wiley Interscience for the RAS
Citation: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, Vol.402, p424
Abstract: We study the complexity of supergranular cells using the intensity patterns obtained at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory during the solar maximum. Our data consist of visually identified supergranular cells, from which a fractal dimension D for supergranulation is obtained according to the relation P∝AD/2 , where A is the area and P the perimeter of the supergranular cells. We find a fractal dimension of about 1.12 for active region cells and about 1.25 for quiet region cells, a difference that could be attributed to the inhibiting effect of the magnetic field.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3936
ISSN: 1365-2966 (Online)
0035-8711
Alternative Location: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.402..424P
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15889.x
Copyright: 2009 Wiley Interscience for the RAS
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