Extrapolation of the solar magnetic field within the potential-field approximation from full-disk magnetograms

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the Laplace boundary-value problem with the directional derivative, corresponding to the specific nature of measurements of the longitudinal component of the photospheric magnetic field. Boundary conditions are specified by a distribution on the sphere of projection of the magnetic field vector unto a given direction. It is shown that the solution of this problem exists in the form of a spherical harmonic expansion, and uniqueness of this solution is proved. A conceptual sketch of numerical determination of the harmonic series coefficients is given. The field of application of the method is analyzed having regard to the peculiarities of actual data. Finally, we present differences in results derived from extrapolating the magnetic field from a synoptic map and a full-disk magnetogram.

18 pages, 2 Gif figures, uses kluwer.sty, submitted to Solar Phys, I have also a Russian version in the form Preprint: ISTP SD RAS, 1999, No. 2-99, 14 p. ([email protected])

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