Substructure of quiet sun bright points

Authors :: Jongchul Chae
P. Goode
Aleksandra Andic
Source :: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 6:339-342
Publication Year :: 2010
Publisher :: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010.
Abstract: Since photospheric bright points (BPs) were first observed, there has been a question as to how are they structured. Are they just single flux tubes or a bundle of the flux-tubes? Surface photometry of the quiet Sun (QS) has achieved resolution close to 0.1" with the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. This resolution allowed us to detect a richer spectrum of BPs in the QS. The smallest BPs we observed with TiO 705.68 nm were 0.13", and we were able to resolve individual components in some of the BPs clusters and ribbons observed in the QS, showing that they are composed of the individual BPs. Average size of observed BPs was 0.22".<br />4 pages, 3 figures, presented as poster at IAU Symposium 273, 2010