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During the total solar eclipse at Akademgorodok, Siberia, Russia, on 1 August 2008, we imaged the flash spectrum with a slitless
spectrograph. We have spectroscopically determined the duration of totality, the epoch of the second and third contacts and
the duration of the flash spectrum. Here we compare the 2008 flash spectra with those that we similarly obtained from the
total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006, at Kastellorizo, Greece. Any changes of the intensity of the coronal emission lines,
in particularly those of Fe x and Fe xiv, could give us valuable information about the temperature of the corona. The results show that the ionization state of the
corona, as manifested especially by the Fe xiv emission line, was much weaker during the 2008 eclipse, indicating that following the long, inactive period during the solar
minimum, there was a drop in the overall temperature of the solar corona. 相似文献
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Arch systems lying above quiescent prominences in the solar corona have long drawn the attention of eclipse observers, and such formations have been investigated since the end of the last century. Almost every eclipse photograph shows one or more arches, and in most cases the arch system is accompanied by a quiescent prominence below it and a helmet streamer above it. Also, in some cases there is a dark cavity between the arch system and the prominence.On large-scale photographs obtained at the November 12, 1966 eclipse, detailed photometry has been carried out on a formation in the corona composed of a helmet streamer straddling two multiple-arch systems each with a dark cavity and a quiescent prominence. The excess of electrons in the arches and the deficiency in the cavities are evaluated. We find that the formation of a prominence requires much more material than available in the cavity before depletion. Consequently the condensation theory of coronal matter into prominences seems to have difficulties explaining the necessary amount of matter in the cases where coronal arches - delineating magnetic field lines above the cavity - may exclude inflow of material from the corona. We comment on the low velocity of solar wind in the helmet streamer.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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We conducted an experiment in conjunction with the total solar eclipse of 21 June 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia, to obtain the K-coronal spectrum simultaneously from multiple locations on the solar corona. Then we matched the observed K-coronal spectra with the modeled K-coronal spectra to determine the coronal electron temperature and its bulk flow speed. Here the models assumed a symmetric and isothermal corona with the coronal electron flowing away from the Sun at a constant flow speed. We were able to make remarkable matches between the observations and the models. In this paper we will try to explain how the anomalies in the matches could be accounted for with the introduction of streamers in the K-coronal spectral models. 相似文献
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Anita Mohan Bhola N. Dwivedi Enrico Landi 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2000,21(3-4):407-411
Using spectra obtained from the SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) spectrograph on the spacecraft
SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), we investigate the height dependence of electron density, temperature and abundance
anomalies in the solar atmosphere. In particular, we present the behaviour of the solar FIP effect (the abundance enhancement
of elements with first ionization potential < 10 eV in the corona with respect to photospheric values) with height
above an active region observed at the solar limb, with emphasis on the so-called transition region lines. 相似文献
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A. G. Voulgaris P. S. Gaintatzis J. H. Seiradakis J. M. Pasachoff T. E. Economou 《Solar physics》2012,278(1):187-202
The flash spectra of the solar chromosphere and corona were measured with a slitless spectrograph before, after, and during the totality of the solar eclipse of 11 July 2010, at Easter Island, Chile. This eclipse took place at the beginning of Solar Cycle 24, after an extended minimum of solar activity. The spectra taken during the eclipse show a different intensity ratio of the red and green coronal lines compared with those taken during the total solar eclipse of 1 August 2008, which took place toward the end of Solar Cycle 23. The characteristic coronal emission line of forbidden Fe xiv (5303 Å) was observed on the east and west solar limbs in four areas relatively symmetrically located with respect to the solar rotation axis. Subtraction of the continuum flash-spectrum background led to the identification of several extremely weak emission lines, including forbidden Ca xv (5694 Å), which is normally detected only in regions of very high excitation, e.g., during flares or above large sunspots. The height of the chromosphere was measured spectrophotometrically, using spectral lines from light elements and compared with the equivalent height of the lower chromosphere measured using spectral lines from heavy elements. 相似文献
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Ko Yuan-Kuen Fisk Lennard A. Geiss Johannes Gloeckler George Guhathakurta Madhulika 《Solar physics》1997,171(2):345-361
The solar wind ions flowing outward through the solar corona generally have their ionic fractions freeze-in within 5 solar radii. The altitude where the freeze-in occurs depends on the competition between two time scales: the time over which the wind flows through a density scale height, and the time over which the ions achieve ionization equilibrium. Therefore, electron temperature, electron density, and the velocity of the ions are the three main physical quantities which determine the freeze-in process, and thus the solar wind ionic charge states. These physical quantities are determined by the heating and acceleration of the solar wind, as well as the geometry of the expansion. In this work, we present a parametric study of the electron temperature profile and velocities of the heavy ions in the inner solar corona. We use the ionic charge composition data observed by the SWICS experiment on Ulysses during the south polar pass to derive empirically the electron temperature profile in the south polar coronal hole. We find that the electron temperature profile in the solar inner corona is well constrained by the solar wind charge composition data. The data also indicate that the electron temperature profile must have a maximum within 2 solar radii. We also find that the velocities of heavy ions in their freeze-in regions are small (<100 km s-1) and different elements must flow at different velocities in the inner corona. 相似文献
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K. Brinkfeldt H. Gunell P. C:son Brandt R.A. Frahm E. Kallio Y. Futaana R. Lundin M. Yamauchi J.R. Sharber A.J. Coates D.O. Kataria T. Säles W. Schmidt J. Luhmann D. Williams C.C. Curtis B.R. Sandel M. Carter A. Fedorov S. McKenna-Lawler R. Cerulli-Irelli P. Wurz N. Krupp M. Fränz C. Dierker 《Icarus》2006,182(2):439-447
We present measurements with an Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imager on board Mars Express when the spacecraft moves into Mars eclipse. Solar wind ions charge exchange with the extended Mars exosphere to produce ENAs that can spread into the eclipse of Mars due to the ions' thermal spread. Our measurements show a lingering signal from the Sun direction for several minutes as the spacecraft moves into the eclipse. However, our ENA imager is also sensitive to UV photons and we compare the measurements to ENA simulations and a simplified model of UV scattering in the exosphere. Simulations and further comparisons with an electron spectrometer sensitive to photoelectrons generated when UV photons interact with the spacecraft suggest that what we are seeing in Mars' eclipse are ENAs from upstream of the bow shock produced in charge exchange with solar wind ions with a non-zero temperature. The measurements are a precursor to a new technique called ENA sounding to measure solar wind and planetary exosphere properties in the future. 相似文献
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Due to their different mass and varying charge states, heavy solar ions provide invaluable information on the physical mechanisms
responsible for the heating of the corona and the solar wind acceleration. It is shown in the present work that some key characteristics
observed in the corona are straightforward features predicted by the velocity filtration effect. This mechanism originally
proposed by Scudder (1992a,b) accounts for the heating of the corona by just assuming that the velocity distribution functions
have enhanced supra-thermal tails. The apparent `heating' is then a natural consequence of the increasing ratio of supra thermal
over thermal particles as a function of altitude. Applied to the minor ions, it offers a natural explanation for the high
temperatures of the heavy ions compared to the protons. The kinetic filtration theory predicts temperatures more than proportional
to the mass of the ions, with a small correction for the charge state. With sufficiently high temperatures, the ions flow
faster than the protons. These characteristics are in good agreement with the most recent spectroscopic and in-situ solar wind observations. 相似文献
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The purpose of this paper is to report on some intensity measurements of the Fe xiii lines at 10 747 Å and 10 798 Å made during the total eclipse of 12 November, 1966. Infrared spectra were taken of the solar corona at a dispersion of 90 Å per mm, using an RCA image converter and spectrograph aboard the NASA CV 990 aircraft off the coast of southern Brazil. The spectra have been reduced to equivalent width in terms of the coronal continuum and values derived for different points in the corona.The observed equivalent widths of the lines lie in the range 10 to 30 Å for the 10 747 line and 5 to 12 Å for the 10 798 line. The ratio of these equivalent widths is found to vary from 2.3 in the inner corona to 6 at a point 1.36 solar radii from the center of the Sun.The above results are discussed in terms of the excitation mechanisms involved in producing the lines. In particular, the results are compared with the recent theoretical calculations of Chevalier and Lambert, who are the first to include the effects of proton collisions in the excitation of the 3p
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P levels of Fexiii. Our observations are consistent with an electron density of 4 × 108 in the inner corona; a value which compares favorably with those derived by other observers from the strength of the K continuum. These are, to our knowledge, the first eclipse observations of the infrared Fe xiii lines which indicate that proton collisions are important in the excitation of the coronal lines. The coronal abundance of iron is estimated from the equivalent width of the 10 747 line, and in common with other observers we find an overabundance as compared to the photospheric abundance by a factor of 10. 相似文献
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In coronal holes the electron (proton) density is low, and heating of the proton gas produces a rapidly increasing proton temperature in the inner corona. In models with a reasonable electron density in the upper transition region the proton gas becomes collisionless some 0.2 to 0.3 solar radii into the corona. In the collisionless region the proton heat flux is outwards, along the temperature gradient. The thermal coupling to electrons is weak in coronal holes, so the heat flux into the transition region is too small to supply the energy needed to heat the solar wind plasma to coronal temperatures. Our model studies indicate that in models with proton heating the inward heat conduction may be so inefficient that some of the energy flux must be deposited in the transition region to produce the proton fluxes that are observed in the solar wind. If we allow for coronal electron heating, the energy that is needed in the transition region to heat the solar wind to coronal temperatures, may be supplied by heat conduction from the corona. 相似文献
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E. Hiei Y. Shimizu H. Miyazaki H. Imai K. Sato S. Kuji W. Sinambela 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1986,119(1):9-15
From the photographs taken at the total solar eclipse of 11 June 1983, we derived the electron density for the north polar rays and for the thread-like fine structures above the active region, which are 108 at 1.4 solar radii and 3×109 at 1.15 solar radii, respectively. The brightness distributions of the corona at the polar region and above the active region, and the flattening index were also derived.Paper presented at the IAU Third Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, held in Kyoto, Japan, between 30 September–6 October, 1984. 相似文献
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A. Geranios 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1981,77(1):167-178
Plasma temperature observations in the solar wind at 1 AU show that very low temperatures of electrons and protons appear not only after interplanetary shock waves, but also after solar wind streams. It is generally believed that the region embedded by a fast preceding and a slower following solar wind is expanding. In this way, the plasma inside may become cooler. In this analysis, we use plasma measurements made aboard the VELA and IMP satellites. Due to the limitations of data, we only give a qualitative picture of the possibility that low temperature regions may be given to local expansions of the plasma. In addition, we assume that these regions are not magnetically closed and therefore not thermically isolated, but are open and connected with the hot corona along the interplanetary magnetic field lines. Therefore, these regions are heated from the corona due to the thermal conduction. In this analysis both the theoretically predicted and the experimentally measured conducted electron heat fluxes are considered. 相似文献
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During the total solar eclipse of 11 June, 1983, an imaging dual-channel Fabry-Pérot interferometer was used to obtain line profiles simultaneously in the green 5303 Å [Fe xiv] and the red 6374 Å [Fe x] coronal lines at various positions in the corona. Extensive microdensitometry followed by multi-Gaussian curve-fitting analysis has resulted in the determination of coronal temperatures and velocity separations between different pockets of coronal gas in the line of sight over a large extent of the corona. Fewer high temperature zones are to be found in the corona of 1983 compared with our similar green-line measurements of the solar maximum corona of 1980. The data are consistent with a temperature maximum occurring at 1.2 R
, as found at the 1980 eclipse, but our new data are insufficient to observe farther out than this radius and so determine the position of a maximum. The velocity field in the corona at the 1983 eclipse is less structured compared with that at the 1980 eclipse and is mainly confined to the zone 20–30km s–1. 相似文献
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Viviane Pierrard Milan Maksimovic Joseph Lemaire 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2001,277(1-2):195-200
Electron velocity distribution functions (VDF) observed in the low speed solar wind flow are generally characterized by ‘core’
and ‘halo’ electrons. In the high speed solar wind, a third population of ‘strahl’ electrons is generally observed. New collisional
models based on the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation can be used to determine the importance of the different electron
populations as a function of the radial distance. Typical electron velocity distribution functions observed at 1 AU from the
Sun are used as boundary conditions for the high speed solar wind and for the low speed solar wind. Taking into account the
effects of external forces and Coulomb collisions with a background plasma, suprathermal tails are found to be present in
the electron VDF at low altitudes in the corona when they exist at large radial distances.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Richard Woo 《Solar physics》2007,241(2):251-261
In the absence of magnetic field measurements of the solar corona, the density structure of white-light images has provided
important insight into the coronal magnetic field. Recent work sparked by highly sensitive radio occultation measurements
of path-integrated density has elucidated the density structure of unprocessed solar eclipse pictures. This paper does the
same for processed images that reveal low-contrast small-scale structures, specifically Koutchmy’s edge-enhanced white-light
image of the 11 August 1999 solar eclipse. This processed image provides visual evidence for two important results deduced
from radio occultation measurements of small-scale density variations. First, in addition to the closed loops readily seen
at the base of the corona in high-resolution EUV and soft X-ray images, open filamentary structures permeate the corona including
active regions generally thought to be magnetically closed. Observed at the image resolution, the filamentary structures are
1° wide in latitude and an order of magnitude smaller than polar plumes. Second, although inhomogeneities that are convected
along with the solar wind are also present, filamentary structures dominate the image because of their steeper density gradients.
The quantitative profile of polarized brightness (pB) at the base of the corona shows that the filamentary structures have transverse density gradients that are proportional
to their density. This explains why edge-enhanced images, limited in sensitivity to density gradients, tend to detect filamentary
structures more readily in high-density regions (e.g., active regions, streamer stalks, and prominences) than in low-density polar coronal holes, and why filamentary structures
seem more prevalent in solar eclipse pictures during solar maximum. The pB profile at the base of the corona also fills the gap in Doppler measurements there, reinforcing that open ultra-fine-scale
filamentary structures observed by the radio measurements are predominantly radial and that they are an integral part of the
radial expansion of the solar wind. 相似文献
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We present results from eclipse spectra in the wavelength region 4588–4682 Å, taken during the eclipse of February 15, 1961 at Bra, Yugoslavia. Absolute line intensities have been determined in the photosphere-chromosphere transition region. The method of reduction is discussed in Section 2 and the observed variation of the total intensity as a function of the height is shown for a number of lines in Figures 5–8. The results for the Fe i lines are compared with computations (as described in Paper I: van Dessel, 1970) for various solar model atmospheres (Section 4). The model, which combines Holweger's (1967) temperature distribution for the excitation temperature with the HSRA model (Gingerich et al., 1971) for the electron temperature, yields a better agreement than all pure LTE-models. 相似文献
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We describe the technique and results of modelling the solar radio emission during the maximum phase of the solar eclipse
of March 29, 2006 on the RATAN-600. The aim of modelling is to refine the brightness temperature of the solar corona at the
distances up to two solar radii from the center of the optical disk of the Sun. We obtained the distribution of brightness
temperature in the vicinity of the coronal hole above the solar North Pole at the wavelength of 13 cm. The results of modelling
showed that brightness temperatures of the coronal hole at the distances greater than 1.02 RC (here RC is the radius of the optical disk of the Sun) is substantially lower than the expected average brightness temperature of
a typical coronal hole, and that of the quiescent Sun (below 30000 K) at the wavelength of 13 cm. The classical Baumbach-Allen
formula for electron density in a spherically symmetric corona agrees with the results of observations starting at distances
of (1.4–1.5) RC. 相似文献
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Polytropic solar wind flows in flow tubes whose cross-sectional area increases faster with radius than for a radial expansion have been studied by Kopp and Holzer (1976). Their use of a faster-than-radial expansion proved promising in analytically associating the high-speed streams observed near 1 AU with the relatively low values of electron densities observed in the lower corona. They could not, however, obtain quantitative agreement with observations. We have extended their work to include thermal conduction and have compared thermally conductive and polytropic flows in the lower corona for given high-speed conditions at 1 AU. The thermally conductive flows (calculated using the Spitzer (1962) thermal conductivity) do yield closer agreement with observations, although the predicted electron density is still too low and the predicted temperature is too high. We also considered a modified thermal conductivity which decreases more rapidly with increasing radius than does the Spitzer value. Again the results were improved, but the agreement could not be termed quantitative. We conclude that thermal conduction alone will not explain solar wind flows originating in coronal holes and that some other mechanism (such as wave pressure) is necessary. 相似文献