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F. Giannattasio
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The velocity field in the lower solar atmosphere undergoes strong interactions with magnetic fields. Many authors have pointed out that power is reduced by a factor between two and three within magnetic regions, depending on frequency, depth, the radius and the magnetic strength of the flux tube. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain the observations. In this work, SDO dopplergrams and magnetograms of 12 bipolar active regions ($beta$ARs) at a 45 second cadence, are used to investigate the relation between velocity fluctuations and magnetic fields. We show that there is an asymmetry within $beta$ARs, with the velocity oscillation amplitude being more suppressed in the leading polarities compared to the trailing polarities. Also, the strongest magnetic fields do not completely suppress the five-minute oscillation amplitude, neither in the spot innermost umbrae.
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There is no list of bipolar active regions (ARs) with reverse polarity (anti-Hale regions), although statistical investigations of such ARs (bearing the imprint of deep subphotospheric processes) are important for understanding solar-cycle mechanisms. We studied 8606 ARs from 1 January 1989 to 31 December 2018 to detect anti-Hale regions and to compile a catalog. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) data, as well as the Debrecen Photoheliographic Data, the Mount Wilson Observatory catalog and drawings, and the USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary were used. Complex, ambiguous cases related to anti-Hale region identification were analyzed. Two basic and four additional criteria to identify an AR as an anti-Hale region were formulated. The basic criteria assume that: i) dominating features of an AR have to form a bipole of reverse polarity with sunspots/pores of both polarities being present; ii) magnetic connections between the opposite polarities has to be observed. A catalog of anti-Hale regions (275 ARs) is compiled. The catalog contains: NOAA number, date of the greatest total area of sunspots, coordinates, and corrected sunspot area for this date. The tilt and the most complex achieved Mount Wilson magnetic class are also provided. The percentage of anti-Hale groups meeting the proposed criteria is ~3.0% from all studied ARs, which is close to early estimations by authors who had examined each AR individually: ~2.4% by Hale and Nicholson (Ap.J. 62, 270, 1925) and ~3.1% by Richardson (Ap.J. 107, 78, 1948). The enchancement of the anti-Hale percentage in later research might be related to: i) increasing sensitivity of instruments (considering smaller and smaller bipoles); ii) the ambiguities in the anti-Hale region identification.
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