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  • SH13F-2151: Time-dependent Analysis of Cowling Heating over a Sunspot Light-Bridge using Dunn Solar Telescope and IRIS Data
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Author(s):
Clay Reece, University of Georgia (First Author, Presenting Author)
Mehmet Yalim, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Christian Beck, National Solar Observatory
Sanjiv Tiwari, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
Debi Prasad Choudhary, California St Univ Northrigde
Sushree Nayak, CSPAR
Sanjay Gusain, National Solar Observatory


Understanding solar atmospheric heating mechanisms is a critical topic for our understanding of the Sun as a whole. This work consists of a time-dependent analysis of a heating mechanism called 'Cowling heating,' which is caused by the dissipation of electric currents that are perpendicular to magnetic field lines. Our subject is a light-bridge, which is a structure formed by magnetic field lines connecting above a sunspot, carrying hotter, photospheric material over the cooler sunspot material. This research has found a correlation between the amount of Cowling heating in this light-bridge and the temperature over a three-hour time span.



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