High cadence spectropolarimetry of moving magnetic features observed around a pore

TL;DR

This study investigates the physical properties of monopolar moving magnetic features around a small pore with penumbra, revealing their similarities to features around sunspots and suggesting they may be manifestations of emerging magnetic arches.

Contribution

It provides new observational analysis of MMFs around a pore with penumbra, comparing them to those around sunspots and proposing their possible nature as emerging magnetic arches.

Findings

MMFs around the pore share characteristics with those near sunspots.

Some MMFs may be manifestations of emerging magnetic arches.

Physical properties of MMFs are consistent with previous observations.

Abstract

Moving magnetic features (MMFs) are small-size magnetic elements that are seen to stream out from sunspots, generally during their decay phase. Several observational results presented in the literature suggest them to be closely related to magnetic filaments that extend from the penumbra of the parent spot. Nevertheless, few observations of MMFs streaming out from spots without penumbra have been reported. The literature still lacks of analyses of the physical properties of these features. We investigate physical properties of monopolar MMFs observed around a small pore that had developed penumbra in the days preceding our observations and compare our results with those reported in the literature for features observed around sunspots. We analyzed NOAA 11005 during its decay phase with data acquired at the Dunn Solar Telescope in the FeI 617.3$ nm and the CaII 854.2$ nm spectral lines with IBIS, and in the G-band. The field of view showed monopolar MMFs of both polarities streaming out from the leading negative polarity pore of the observed active region. Combining different analyses of the data, we investigated the temporal evolution of the relevant physical quantities associated with the MMFs as well as the photospheric and chromospheric signatures of these features. We show that the characteristics of the investigated MMFs agree with those reported in the literature for MMFs that stream out from spots with penumbrae. Moreover, observations of at least two of the observed features suggest them to be manifestations of emerging magnetic arches.