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Cancelling Magnetic Features on the Sun

  • Park, So-Young;Chae, Jong-Chul
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.36.2-36.2
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    • 2011
  • A cancelling magnetic feature (CMF) is believed to be a result of magnetic reconnection in the low atmosphere of the Sun. In this work, we investigate the physical properties of CMFs, focusing on the rates of flux cancellation in CMFs and the dynamics of chromospheric phenomena coupled with CMFs. First, we have determined the specific rates of flux cancellation using the magnetograms taken by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Hinode satellite. The specific rates determined with the SOT turned out to be systematically higher than those based on the data taken by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) aborad the SOHO. Second, we analyzed transient Ca II brightenings associated with small-scale CMFs using the SOT/Hinode. We found that in most Ca II brightenings related to CMFs, and the Ca II intensity peaks after magnetic flux cancellation proceeds. Moreover, brightenings tend to appear as pairs of bright points of similar size and similar brightness overlying magnetic bipoles. To further study the brightening and dynamics of chromospherie features associated with CMFs, we have analyzed Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) data. From this data the Doppler motion of chromospheric features above a CMF changed from redshift to blueshift. The duration of such dynamics is very short being less than 2 minutes. These results are unexpected one and can not be explained by any pre-existing pictures of CMFs.

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COMMENTS ON MAGNETIC RECONNECTION MODELS OF CANCELING MAGNETIC FEATURES ON THE SUN

  • Litvinenko, Yuri E.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.187-190
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    • 2015
  • Data analysis and theoretical arguments support magnetic reconnection in a chromospheric current sheet as the mechanism of the observed photospheric magnetic flux cancellation on the Sun. Flux pile-up reconnection in a Sweet–Parker current sheet can explain the observed properties of canceling magnetic features, including the speeds of canceling magnetic fragments, the magnetic fluxes in the fragments, and the flux cancellation rates, inferred from the data. It is discussed how more realistic chromospheric reconnection models can be developed by relaxing the assumptions of a negligible current sheet curvature and a constant height of the reconnection site above the photosphere.

Detection of Opposite Magnetic Polarity in a Light Bridge : Its Emergence and Cancellation in association with LB Fan-shaped Jets

  • Lim, Eun-Kyung;Yang, Heesu;Yurchyshyn, Vasyl;Chae, Jongchul;Song, Donguk;Madjarska1, Maria S.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.45.1-45.1
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    • 2020
  • Light bridges (LBs) are relatively bright structures that divide sunspot umbrae into two or more parts. Chromospheric LBs are known to be associated with various activities including fan-shaped jet-like ejections and brightenings. Although magnetic reconnection is frequently suggested to be responsible for such activities, not many studies presented firm evidence to support the scenario. We carry out magnetic field measurements and imaging spectroscopy of a LB where fan-shaped jet-like ejections occur with co-spatial brightenings at their footpoints. We study their fine photospheric structures and magnetic field changes using TiO images, Near-InfraRed Imaging Spectropolarimeter data, and Hα data taken by the 1.6 m Goode Solar Telescope. As a result, we detect magnetic flux emergence in the LB that is of opposite polarity to that of the sunspot. The new flux cancels with the pre-existing flux at a rate of 5.6×1018 Mx hr-1. Both recurrent jet-like ejections and their footpoint brightenings are initiated at the vicinity of the magnetic cancellation, and show apparent horizontal extension along the LB at a projected speed of 4.3 km s-1 to form the fan-shaped appearance. Based on these observations, we suggest that the fan-shaped ejections may have resulted due to slipping reconnection between the new flux emerging in the LB and the ambient sunspot field.

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A Two-Phase Interleaved Single-Stage Isolated Boost-Half-Bridge AC-DC Converter using a Transformer with Flux Cancellation

  • Naradhipa, Adhistira M.;Kang, Suhan;Choi, Sewan
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2019.07a
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    • pp.153-155
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    • 2019
  • This paper proposes a two-phase interleaved bridgeless single-stage ac-dc converter with magnetic integration that can achieve CCM power factor correction without input current sensing. All switches achieve ZVS turn-on and all diodes achieve ZCS turn-on for the whole grid cycle. SDAB-based modulation strategy is applied which results in simple power control and wide range output voltage. A flux cancellation method to integrate the interleaved transformer is firstly proposed in this paper to reduce the core size and loss. Experimental results on a 1.7-kW, 50kHz prototype are given to verify the principle and advantages of the proposed ac-dc converter.

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Parasitic Inductance Reduction Design Method of Vertical Lattice Loop Structure for Stable Driving of GaN HEMT (GaN HEMT의 안정적 구동을 위한 수직 격자 루프 구조의 기생 인덕턴스 저감 설계 기법)

  • Yang, Si-Seok;Soh, Jae-Hwan;Min, Sung-Soo;Kim, Rae-Young
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.195-203
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    • 2020
  • This paper presents a parasitic inductance reduction design method for the stable driving of GaN HEMT. To reduce the parasitic inductance, we propose a vertical lattice loop structure with multiple loops that is not affected by the GaN HEMT package. The proposed vertical lattice loop structure selects the reference loop and designs the same loop as the reference loop by layering. The design reverses the current direction of adjacent current paths, increasing magnetic flux cancellation to reduce parasitic inductance. In this study, we validate the effectiveness of the parasitic inductance reduction method of the proposed vertical lattice loop structure.

A Study on Improving Performance of an Electromagnetic Clutch through Cancellation of Magnetic Flux Bottlenecks (자기장 병목현상 해소를 통한 전자 클러치의 성능향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim S.H.;J. T.W.;Kim K.S.;Joh J.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.291-294
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents a method of improving performance of an electromagnetic clutch for the next generation tank gun. One of the most important things in the design of the clutch is to satisfy the requirement for the maximum torque even if the torque is varied. To achieve this requirement, it is needed to expand the operation range of the torque. Consequently, we have performed shape changes in order to cancel magnetic flux bottlenecks on the magnetic path. Simulation results from the finite element method show that the method proposed in this paper is proper for the clutch.

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