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Tabulation of the harmonic coefficients of the solar magnetic fields

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Tables of spherical harmonic coefficients for the global photospheric magnetic field between 1959 and 1974 are now available on microfilm. (These are the same coefficients which were used to construct the maps of the coronal magnetic atlas.)

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  • Altschuler, M. D., Newkirk, G., Jr., Trotter, D. E., and Howard, R.: 1971, in R. Howard (ed.), ‘Solar Magnetic Fields’, IAU Symp. 43, 588.

  • Altschuler, M. D., Trotter, D. E., Newkirk, G., Jr., and Howard, R.: 1974, Solar Phys. 39, 3.

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  • Newkirk, G., Jr., Trotter, D. E., Altschuler, M. D., and Howard, R.: 1972, Solar Phys. 24, 370.

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  • Newkirk, G., Jr., Trotter, D. E., Altschuler, M. D., and Howard, R.: 1973, ‘A Microfilm Atlas of Magnetic Fields in the Solar Corona’, NCAR Technical Note NCAR-TN/STR-85.

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  1. High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo, U.S.A.

    Martin D. Altschuler, Dorothy E. Trotter & Gordon Newkirk Jr.

  2. Hale Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif, U.S.A.

    Robert Howard

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  1. Martin D. Altschuler
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

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Altschuler, M.D., Trotter, D.E., Newkirk, G. et al. Tabulation of the harmonic coefficients of the solar magnetic fields. Sol Phys 41, 225–226 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152968

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