Interesting movies Phil. Does Hinode H-alpha also see super-Alfvenic apparent motions in spicules?
Charles
On 2012 Jul 31, , at 7:27 PM, Philip Judge wrote:
I think this community ought to be made aware that there is a more fundamental issue at stake regarding chromospheric (and coronal) fine structure in general:
What is the relationship between the magnetic field and the plasma?
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...755L..11J
The Sun will eventually decide what is going on if we can get the right observational clues.
Perhaps the decadal survey will recognize the urgent need to measure magnetism throughout the solar atmosphere, since simulations cannot be expected to answer this question anytime soon.
Phil
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