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Martinez Pillet, V.; Sainz Dalda, A.; van Driel-Gesztelyi, L.
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35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 18 - 25 July 2004, in Paris, France., p.1133
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2004
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Flux Cancellation in a Decaying Active Region Flux cancellation is
observed in many regions on the Sun as internetwork, network and active
regions fields. It clearly plays a crucial role in the constant flux
processing observed in the solar surface. During the decay of an active
region, we have observed the in-situ dissapearance of 70 % of its flux
(from SOHO/MDI). Active region flux decay is a global, large-scale,
process crucial to the solar cycle. But the flux cancellations, where
the flux actually disappears, do take place in very small scale regions.
There opposite polarities meet and vanish. The process needs of
observations with sufficient sensitivity and angular resolution. In the
example presented here, we show how up to 4 of these cancellations are
associated with outward moving material in the Corona (as observed by
TRACE), including a major active region filament eruption. Solar
Orbiter, profiting from the advantage observing position and
near-corotation can follow these subtle, but crucial, processes with the
necessary set of instruments: Magnetographs, Coronal imagers and
spectrographs. For those events occurring in the spacecraft solar
vertical, one should not exclude the detection of the phenomena in the
in-situ instruments.