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Published May 1998 | public
Journal Article

Curious Magnetic Changes in a Quiet Region

Abstract

We describe the evolution of weak magnetic fields in a quiet region observed at the Big Bear Solar Observatory on 1 October 1996. We observed puzzling changes in which one polarity changed without corresponding increases or decreases in the other. In the rest of the same field, no special changes were observed, and a search of nearby days revealed no similar changes. We do not wish to call Maxwell's laws into question, we simply state that there are surprising effects that we cannot understand with current models.

Additional Information

© Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998. (Received 30 May 1997; accepted 1 October 1997) We acknowledge the help of Anders Johannesson and Robert Cameron in data problems. This work was supported by the US-Australia Cooperative Science agreement, grants NSF INT-9515468 and 95/8817, and by the ONR under N00014–97–1–0080.

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