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Using Fe ix/x 17.1 nm observations from the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), we have identified many coronal plumes inside low-latitude coronal holes as they transited the solar limb during the late
declining phase of cycle 23. These diffuse, linear features appear to be completely analogous to the familiar polar plumes.
By tracking them as they rotate from the limb onto the disk (or vice versa), we confirm that EUV plumes seen against the disk appear as faint, diffuse blobs of emission surrounding a brighter core.
When the EIT images are compared with near-simultaneous magnetograms from the SOHO Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI), the low-latitude, on-disk plumes are found to overlie regions of mixed polarity, where small
bipoles are in contact with unipolar flux concentrations inside the coronal hole. The birth and decay of the plumes are shown
to be closely related to the emergence of ephemeral regions, their dispersal in the supergranular flow field, and the cancellation
of the minority-polarity flux against the dominant-polarity network elements. In addition to the faint polar and nonpolar
plumes associated with ephemeral regions, we note the existence of two topologically similar coronal structures: the giant
plume-like features that occur above active regions inside coronal holes, and the even larger scale “pseudostreamers” that
separate coronal holes of the same polarity. In all three cases, the basic structure consists of open field lines of a given
polarity overlying a photospheric region of the opposite polarity; ongoing interchange reconnection at the X-point separating
the open field domains from the underlying double-arcade system appears to result in the steady evaporation of material from
the closed into the open region. 相似文献
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Wilhelm K. Lemaire P. Curdt W. Schühle U. Marsch E. Poland A. I. Jordan S. D. Thomas R. J. Hassler D. M. Huber M. C. E. Vial J.-C. Kühne M. Siegmund O. H. W. Gabriel A. Timothy J. G. Grewing M. Feldman U. Hollandt J. Brekke P. 《Solar physics》1997,170(1):75-104
SUMER – the Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of the Emitted Radiation instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) – observed its first light on January 24, 1996, and subsequently obtained a detailed spectrum with detector B in the wavelength range from 660 to 1490 Å (in first order) inside and above the limb in the north polar coronal hole. Using detector A of the instrument, this range was later extended to 1610 Å. The second-order spectra of detectors A and B cover 330 to 805 Å and are superimposed on the first-order spectra. Many more features and areas of the Sun and their spectra have been observed since, including coronal holes, polar plumes and active regions. The atoms and ions emitting this radiation exist at temperatures below 2 × 106 K and are thus ideally suited to investigate the solar transition region where the temperature increases from chromospheric to coronal values. SUMER can also be operated in a manner such that it makes images or spectroheliograms of different sizes in selected spectral lines. A detailed line profile with spectral resolution elements between 22 and 45 mÅ is produced for each line at each spatial location along the slit. From the line width, intensity and wavelength position we are able to deduce temperature, density, and velocity of the emitting atoms and ions for each emission line and spatial element in the spectroheliogram. Because of the high spectral resolution and low noise of SUMER, we have been able to detect faint lines not previously observed and, in addition, to determine their spectral profiles. SUMER has already recorded over 2000 extreme ultraviolet emission lines and many identifications have been made on the disk and in the corona. 相似文献
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Jerome T. Nolte Michel Gerassimenko Allen S. Krieger Craig V. Solodyna 《Solar physics》1978,56(1):153-159
We have compared sudden shifts in coronal hole boundaries observed by the S-054 X-ray telescope on Skylab between May and November, 1973, within 1 day of CMP of the holes, at latitudes 40 °, with the long-term evolution of coronal hole area. We find that large-scale shifts in boundary locations can account for most if not all of the evolution of coronal holes. The temporal and spatial scales of these large-scale changes imply that they are the results of a physical process occurring in the corona. We conclude that coronal holes evolve by magnetic field lines opening when the holes are growing, and by fields closing as the holes shrink.Skylab Solar Workshop post-doctoral appointee 1975–1976. The Skylab Solar Workshops are sponsored by NASA and NSF and managed by the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research. 相似文献
4.
An eruptive prominence of June 10, 1973, showing ascending and expanding motions, has been recorded spectroscopically at Oslo Solar Observatory.The Ca ii H line yields broadening velocities ranging from 5 km s-1 to 20 km s-1. An extreme ratio of 1/30 was measured for line-broadening to expansion velocity.Flare activity succeeded the start of the observed disparition brusque phase of the prominence. The eruption is related to coronal disturbances recorded approximately 1 hr later by ATM, Skylab. 相似文献
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K. Stucki S.K. Solanki I. Rüedi J.O. Stenflo A. Brković U. Schühle K. Wilhelm M.C.E. Huber 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,264(1-4):53-61
We present a preliminary analysis of spectral lines obtained with the SUMER instrument (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of
Emitted Radiation) onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), as observed during three observing campaigns. From
the 70 observed spectral lines, we selected 12, representing 9 ions or atoms, in order to analyse line intensities, shifts
and widths in polar coronal holes as well as in the normal quiet Sun.
We find that coronal lines show a distinct blueshift in coronal holes relative to the quiet Sun at equal heliospheric angle,
while there is no evidence for such a shift for lines formed at temperatures below 105K. The widths of lines formed at temperatures above 3 – 104K are slightly increased inside the coronal hole, but unaffected for lower temperatures. Intensity measurements clearly show
the center-to-limb variation, as well as an intensity diminution inside the coronal hole for lines formed above approximately
105K.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
6.
Werner M. Neupert 《Solar physics》1967,2(3):294-315
The observation of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission lines of Fe ix through Fe xvi made by Orbiting Solar Observatory-1 are discussed and applied to a study of the solar corona above active regions. Ultraviolet and radio emission are determined and compared for several levels of activity classified according to the type of sunspot group associated with the active region. Both radio emission and line radiation from Fe xvi, the highest stage of ionization of Fe observed, are observed to increase rapidly with the onset of activity and are most intense over an E-spot group early in the lifetime of the active region. As activity diminishes, radiation from Fe xv and Fe xvi becomes relatively more prominent. The observations imply that the coronal temperature reaches a maximum during the period of highest activity, as indicated by sunspot-group complexity and the occurrence of chromospheric flares. A maximum coronal electron temperature of 4.0 × 106 °K is estimated when taking into account the mechanism of dielectronic recombination. Concurrently, the average coronal electron density increases by a factor of 10–12. Both electron temperature and density decrease as activity subsides. The coronal temperature above the remaining Ca ii plage is estimated to be 2.5–3.0 × 106 °K after flare activity has ceased and sunspots have disappeared. 相似文献
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Polar plumes have been detected in X-rays with the Skylab S-054 experiment. Observations of one well observed plume are analyzed and the plasma pressure is determined. An isothermal model in hydrostatic equilibrium is found to require unacceptably low temperatures. A hydrodynamic model is proposed which is consistent with earlier white light and EUV observations. Calculations indicate that the total outward mass flux in polar plumes is comparable to that in high speed solar wind streams expected from a polar coronal hole. 相似文献
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We present new observations of O vi 1032 Å line profiles in polar plumes, and inter-plume regions, on the disk and above the limb in the north coronal hole obtained with the SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) instrument on the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. On 22 May 1996, a 5 x 5 arc min spectroheliogram was scanned above the north polar coronal hole with the entrance slit extending from 1.03 to 1.33 solar radii with 1.5 arc sec spatial resolution and ≈ 0.044 Å per pixel spectral resolution in the wavelength range 1020–1040 Å. Detailed plume structure in O vi 1032 Å can be seen extending beyond 1.3 solar radii, with intensities in the plume regions 10–50% brighter, but line widths 10–15% narrower, than the inter-plume regions. Possible explanations for this observed anti-correlation between line width and intensity in the plume and inter-plume regions are discussed. We conclude that the source of the high-speed solar wind may not be polar plumes, but the inter-plume lanes associated with open magnetic field regions of the chromospheric network. 相似文献
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The intensity ratios of Niii, Oiii, Oiv, and Ov lines observed by the HCO experiment on Skylab are compared with the results of recent multilevel calculations. It is found that solar transition-region spectra require Lyman continuum absorption. The equivalent optical thickness of the absorbers causing the weakening is found to be 1.6–1.7 for a quiet area, 1.4–1.9 for a coronal hole, and 2.4–2.5 for active regions. These values are consistent with previous estimates from different methods. 相似文献
10.
J. D. Bohlin 《Solar physics》1977,51(2):377-398
The disk boundaries of coronal holes have been systematically determined from XUV observations taken during the manned Skylab missions (June 1973–January 1974). The resulting Atlas was used to find the sizes, global distributions, differential rotation rates, growth/decay rates and lifetimes of holes during this period. The polar cap holes together covered 15% of the Sun's total surface area, a number which remained surprisingly constant throughout Skylab despite the fact that each pole was independently evolving in time. Lower latitude holes contributed another 2 to 5%. The anomalous differential rotation law derived for a large north-south hole by Timothy et al. (1975) has been confirmed. However, other Skylab holes were too low in latitude to demonstrate the generality of this result. The average growth/decay rate for holes was 1.5 × 104 km2 s-1, in excellent agreement with the value used by Leighton (1964) for his successful treatment of the surface transport of solar magnetic fields. The lifetimes of lower-latitude holes are found to regularly exceed 5 solar rotations, in good agreement with the lifetimes of recurrent geomagnetic storms with which holes are now known to be associated. 相似文献
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Using soft X-ray data from the S-054 X-ray spectrographic telescope aboard Skylab, we observed temporal changes in the emission structure of the X-ray corona associated with the birth of a small coronal hole. Designated as CH6, this coronal hole was born near the equator in a time interval less than 9 1/2 hr. By constructing a light curve for a point near the center of CH6, we observed a sudden 40% decrease in X-ray emission associated with the birth of this coronal hole. On a time scale of hours, the growth of CH6 in area proceeded faster than the average rate predicted by the diffusion of solar fields. The short term decay of CH6 followed the diffusive rate to within experimental uncertainty, On a time scale of one rotation, the subsequent development of CH6 was not consistent with steady growth at the average rate predicted by diffusion.Skylab Solar Workshop Post-Doctoral Appointee, 1975–1977. The Skylab Solar Workshops are sponsored by NASA and NSF and managed by the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research. 相似文献
12.
David F. Webb Patrick S. MciIntosh Jerome T. Nolte Craig V. Solodyna 《Solar physics》1978,58(2):389-396
The positions of X-ray coronal transients outside of active regions observed during Skylab were superposed on H synoptic charts and coronal hole boundaries for seven solar rotations. We confirmed a detailed spatial association between the transients and neutral lines. We found that most of the transients were related to large-scale changes in coronal hole area and tended to occur on the borders of evolving equatorial holes.Skylab Solar Workshop Post-Doctoral Appointee, 1975–1977. 相似文献
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C. E. DeForest J. T. Hoeksema J. B. Gurman B. J. Thompson S. P. Plunkett R. Howard R. C. Harrison D. M. Hasslerz 《Solar physics》1997,175(2):393-410
On 7 and 8 March 1996, the SOHO spacecraft and several other space- and ground-based observatories cooperated in the most
comprehensive observation to date of solar polar plumes. Based on simultaneous data from five instruments, we describe the
morphology of the plumes observed over the south pole of the Sun during the SOHO observing campaign. Individual plumes have
been characterized from the photosphere to approximately 15 R⊙ yielding a coherent portrait of the features for more quantitative
future studies. The observed plumes arise from small (∼ 2-5 arc sec diameter) quiescent, unipolar magnetic flux concentrations,
on chromospheric network cell boundaries. They are denser and cooler than the surrounding coronal hole through which they
extend, and are seen clearly in both Feix and Fexii emission lines, indicating an ionization temperature between 1.0–1.5 x
106 K. The plumes initially expand rapidly with altitude, to a diameter of 20–30 Mm about 30 Mm off the surface. Above 1.2 R⊙
plumes are observed in white light (as ‘coronal rays’) and extend to above 12 R⊙. They grow superradially throughout their
observed height, increasing their subtended solid angle (relative to disk center) by a factor of ∼10 between 1.05 R⊙ and 4–5
R⊙ and by a total factor of 20–40 between 1.05 R⊙ and 12 R⊙. On spatial scales larger than 10 arc sec, plume structure in
the lower corona (R < 1.3 R⊙) is observed to be steady-state for periods of at least 24 hours; however, on spatial scales
smaller than 10 arc sec, plume XUV intensities vary by 10–20% (after background subtraction) on a time scale of a few minutes.
(Dr. Hassler is now employed by Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO) 相似文献
14.
M. Waldmeier 《Solar physics》1981,70(2):251-258
The extension of the polar coronal holes has been studied for four cycles (1940–1978), using the observations of the corona line 530.3 nm. For about 7 years of each cycle, including sunspot minimum, the polar hole exists permanently and has a diameter of about 40° or even more. For about 3 years around sunspot maximum no polar hole does exist (Figure 5). The boundary of the hole is flanked at a distance of 10° by the polar zone of the corona and at one of 20° by that of the prominences. In the polar caps, so far they are occupied by the holes, polar photospheric faculae and the well-known plumes of the polar corona are found, and the polar crown of prominences, encircling the polar hole, is the belt where the reversal of the magnetic polarity takes place. 相似文献
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We continued a study of the long-term variations of temperature in the solar corona at all latitudes (Makarov, Tlatov, and
Callebaut, 2002a). The series of the green (Fe xiv 530.3 nm; KI5303) and red (Fe x 637.4 nm; KI6374) coronal intensities for 1957–2002 has been obtained using the coronal observations at the Kislovodsk Solar Station. The
mean monthly coronal intensities have been calculated at all latitudes (0–90˚) and in the high latitude (45–90˚) zones. It was found that the value of KI6374/KI5303increased about 2.0 times at the high latitudes during the last 45 years. This corresponds to a decrease of the average temperature
by 0.1 ×106K of the polar corona. We suppose that a polar decrease of coronal temperature is connected with an increase of the area of
polar zones A
PZoccupied by unipolar magnetic fields (Makarov et al., 2002) and, probably, with an increase of the area of polar coronal holes. The maximum ratio KI6374/KI5303is observed during the minimum sunspot activity. 相似文献
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A. B. C. Walker Jr. C. E. Deforest Richard B. Hoover Troy W. Barbee Jr. 《Solar physics》1993,148(2):239-252
Normal incidence multilayer coated EUV/XUV optical systems provide a powerful technique for the study of the structure of the solar corona. Such systems permit the imaging of the full solar disk and corona with high angular resolution in narrow wavelength bands that are dominated by a single line or a line multiplet excited over a well defined range of temperatures. We have photometrically analysed, and derived temperature and density information from, images of polar plumes obtained with a multilayer Cassegrain telescope operating in the wavelength interval = 171 to 175 , which is dominated by FeIX and FeX emission. This observation was obtained in October 1987, and is the first high resolution observation of an astronomical object obtained with normal incidence multilayer optics techniques. We find that photometric data taken from this observation, applied to a simple, semi-empirical model of supersonic solar wind flow, are consistent with the idea that polar plumes are a source of the solar wind. However, we are not able to uniquely trace high speed streams to polar plumes. The temperatures that we observed are typically 1 500 000 K for both the plumes and the interplume regions, with the plume temperatures slightly higher than those of the surrounding atmosphere. Typical electron densities of the plume and interplume regions, respectively, are 5 × 109 cm–3 and 1 × 108 cm–3 at the limb of the Sun. 相似文献
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Solar Wind Forecasting with Coronal Holes 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
An empirical model for forecasting solar wind speed related geomagnetic events is presented here. The model is based on the
estimated location and size of solar coronal holes. This method differs from models that are based on photospheric magnetograms
(e.g., Wang–Sheeley model) to estimate the open field line configuration. Rather than requiring the use of a full magnetic
synoptic map, the method presented here can be used to forecast solar wind velocities and magnetic polarity from a single
coronal hole image, along with a single magnetic full-disk image. The coronal hole parameters used in this study are estimated
with Kitt Peak Vacuum Telescope He I 1083 nm spectrograms and photospheric magnetograms. Solar wind and coronal hole data for the period between May 1992 and
September 2003 are investigated. The new model is found to be accurate to within 10% of observed solar wind measurements for
its best 1-month period, and it has a linear correlation coefficient of ∼0.38 for the full 11 years studied. Using a single
estimated coronal hole map, the model can forecast the Earth directed solar wind velocity up to 8.5 days in advance. In addition,
this method can be used with any source of coronal hole area and location data. 相似文献
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We present meterwave maps showing a coronal hole at 30.9, 50.0, and 73.8 MHz using the Clark Lake Radioheliograph in October 1984. The coronal hole seen against the disk at all three frequencies shows interesting similarities to, and significant differences from its optical signatures in He i
l10830 spectroheliograms.Using the model of coronal holes by Dulk et al. (1977) we derive the electron density from the radio observations of the brightness temperature. The discrepancy between the density value derived from the Skylab EUV data and that computed from our radio data is even larger than in Dulk et al. 's comparison at similar and higher frequencies. 相似文献
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K. P. Dere J.-D. F. Bartoe G. E. Brueckner J. W. Cook D. G. Socker J. W. Ewing 《Solar physics》1989,119(1):55-63
During the Spacelab 2 mission, the NRL High Resolution Telescope and Spectrograph (HRTS) obtained a time-series of broad-band ultraviolet images of macrospicules at the solar limb inside a polar coronal hole with a temporal resolution of 20 and 60 s. The properties of the macrospicules observed in the Spacelab data are measured and compared with the properties reported for EUV macrospicules observed during Skylab (Bohlin et al., 1975; Withbroe et al., 1976). There is a general agreement between the data sets but several differences. Because of the higher temporal resolution of the Spacelab data, it is possible to see macrospicules with shorter lifetimes than seen during Skylab, as well as variations on faster timescales. The largest (30–60) and fastest (150 km s -1) macrospicules seen during Skylab were not found in the Spacelab observations. The Spacelab data support the conclusion that many macrospicules decay by simply fading away. 相似文献
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Richard C. Altrock 《Solar physics》2004,224(1-2):255-268
Observations of the forbidden coronal lines Fe xiv 530.3 nm and Fe x
637.4 nm obtained at the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak are used to determine the variation of coronal temperature
at latitudes above 30∘ during solar activity cycles 21–23. Features of the long-term variation of emission in the two lines are also discussed.
Temperatures at latitudes below 30∘ are not studied because the technique used to determine the coronal temperature is not applicable in active regions. The
polar temperature varies cyclically from approximately 1.3 to 1.7 MK. The temperatures are similar in both hemispheres. The
temperature near solar minimum decreases strongly from mid-latitudes to the poles. The temperature of the corona above 80∘ latitude generally follows the sunspot cycle, with minima in 1985 and 1995–1996 (cf. 1986 and 1996 for the smoothed sunspot
number, Rz) and maxima in 1989 and 2000 (cf. 1989 and 2000 for Rz). The temperature of the corona above 30∘ latitude at solar maximum is nearly uniform, i.e., there is little latitude dependence. If the maximum temperatures of cycles
22 and 23 are aligned in time (superposed epochs), the average annual N + S temperature (average of the northern and southern
hemisphere) in cycle 23 is hotter than that in cycle 22 at all times both above 80∘ latitude and above 30∘ latitude. The difference in the average annual N + S maximum temperature between cycles 23 and 22 was 56 kK near the poles
and 64 kK for all latitudes above 30∘. Cycle 23 was also hotter at mid-latitudes than cycle 22 by 60 kK. The last 3 years of cycle 21 were hotter than the last
3 years of cycle 22. The difference in average annual N + S temperatures at the end of cycles 21 and 22 was 32 kK near the
poles and 23 kK for all latitudes above 30∘. Cycle 21 was also hotter at mid-latitudes than cycle 22 by at least 90 kK. Thus, there does not seem to be a solar-cycle
trend in the low-coronal temperature outside of active regions. 相似文献