Solar Surface Magnetism

• I. Context.- The Sun among the stars.- II. Techniques.- Recipes for solar polarimetry.- Some aspects of polarimetry with LEST.- Speckle techniques for spectroscopic observations.- The Fe I 10265 Å line as an excellent tool for magnetic field measurements.- III. Magnetic elements.- Properties of small magnetic elements.- Dynamics of small magnetic elements in a growing active region.- The upper photosphere and lower chromosphere of small-scale magnetic features.- Vector spectropolarimetry with the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP) for quantitative solar magnetometry.- Preliminary properties of pores derived from 1.56 micron lines.- The magnetic chromosphere.- Fine structures of the solar chromospheres.- Non-linearities of chromospheric oscillations.- Chromospheric oscillations.- Modelling umbrae.- Sunspot temperatures.- Interpretation of sunspot oscillations.- Dynamics of the Evershed effect.- The cause of the Evershed effect in sunspots: flows or waves?.- An analytical model for fluted sunspots and a new interpretation of Evershed flow.- Some consequences of an uncombed and inhomogeneous penumbra.- IV. Magnetic patterns.- On photospheric flows and chromospheric corks.- Large-scale photospheric motions: first results from an extraordinary eleven-hour granulation observation.- Solar magnetic fields and percolation theory.- Scaling properties of photospheric magnetic fields.- Magnetoconvective patterns.- Average east-west inclinations of surface magnetic field lines.- Magnetic field configurations basic to filament channels and filaments.- An observational and conceptual model of the magnetic field of a filament.- The solar magnetic cycle.- Cycle patterns of the axisymmetric magnetic field.- Returning to the random walk.- V. Theory of magnetoconvection.- The solardynamo.- Dynamics of erupting magnetic flux tubes.- Theory of passive magnetic field transport.- Dynamic interaction of convection with magnetic flux sheets: first results of a new MHD code.- Magnetoconvection and magnetoturbulence.- VI. Prospects.- Solar surface magnetism: quests for observations.- The THEMIS telescope.- THEMIS polarimetry.- SOHO: science objectives and capabilities.- Author index.- Citation index.

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