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Caption: Figure 3.
Hα xt diagram along a line that starts in the umbra (at 0) and crosses through the penumbra parallel to the penumbral filaments (see the line marked in Figure 1). The (photospheric) outer penumbral boundary is at 6.8 Mm and is marked with a thin white line.
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