Snapshot of the Sunspot With the Strongest Magnetic Field and Its Spectrum (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Snapshot of the Sunspot With the Strongest Magnetic Field and Its Spectrum

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(left) Snapshot of the sunspot with the strongest magnetic field. (middle) Spectrum taken along the white line in the left panel. "1" indicates the location of the strongest magnetic field. "2" indicates the location of the umbra. (right) Simplified diagram of the splitting of the iron absorption line. A large distance in the splitting means a strong magnetic field.

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