Illustration of the Alfvén Pulse Connection between Plasma Swirls Observed in the Solar Photosphere (IMAGE)

University of Sheffield

Illustration of the Alfvén Pulse Connection between Plasma Swirls Observed in the Solar Photosphere

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The photospheric and chromospheric images were recorded with the Hinode satellite, while coloured lines between are visualizing the presence of magnetic field lines from the researchers' realistic numerical simulations using the Sheffield Advanced Code (SAC). Red and blue curves are swirls detected by the Automated Swirl Detection Algorithm (ASDA) developed by the researchers.

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Liu et al. <em>Nature Communications,</em> 10:3504, 2019

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