Traveling Waves of Magnetoconvection and the Origin of the Evershed Effect in Sunspots

Irina N. Kitiashvili, Alexander G. Kosovichev, Alan A. Wray +1

Discovered in 1909 the Evershed effect represents strong mass outflows in sunspot penumbra, where the magnetic field of sunspots is filamentary and almost horizontal. These flows p…