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Observations are presented which suggest that away from sunspots photospheric magnetic flux is quantized. Assuming the elemental area of a magnetic region to be 1 (arc-sec)2 the elemental field strength is 525 G.
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Kitt Peak National Observatory Contribution No. 501.
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Livingston, W., Harvey, J. Observational evidence for quantization in photospheric magnetic flux. Sol Phys 10, 294–296 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145516
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145516