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In this introductory chapter we first briefly describe some overall characteristics of the sun, and then take a closer look at the sun’s magnetic surfaces. We shall see that highly advanced space and ground-based observations show various magnetic elements, their clusters, and mass flows in great detail. The chapter is concluded with the description of the magnetic skeleton of the sun showing the well-defined imprint of the photospheric magnetic field pattern at all available temperatures from low chromosphere to the outermost corona.
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Ryutova, M. (2015). The Sun’s Magnetic Fields. In: Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45243-1_1
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