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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. |
Description: | Restricted Access. |
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 |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (A&A) |
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