Loop models of low coronal structures observed by the Normal Incidence X-Ray Telescope (NIXT)

Details Loop models of low coronal structures observed by the Normal Incidence X-Ray Telescope (NIXT) Loop models of low coronal structures observed by the Normal Incidence X-Ray Telescope (NIXT)

Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...422..412p&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 422, no. 1, p. 412-415

Physics

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Chromosphere, Coronal Loops, Solar Corona, Solar Physics, Spectral Bands, X Ray Imagery, Angular Resolution, Density Distribution, Hydrostatics, Morphology, Radiation Distribution, Temperature Distribution, X Ray Telescopes

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The X-ray pictures obtained with the Normal Incidence X-Ray Telescope (NIXT), apart from the ubiquitous coronal loops well known from previous X-ray observations, show a new and peculiar morphology: in many active regions there are wide and apparently low-lying areas of intense emission which resemble H alpha plages. By means of hydrostatic models of coronal arches, we analyze the distribution of temperature, density, emission measure, and plasma emissivity in the spectral band to which NIXT is sensitive, and we show that the above morphology can be explained by the characteristics of high pressure loops having a thin region of high surface brightness at the base. We therefore propose that this finding might help to identify high-pressure X-ray emitting coronal regions in NIXT images, and it is in principle applicable to any imaging instrument which has high sensitivity to 104 - 106 K plasma within a narrow coronal-temperature passband. As a more general result of this study, we propose that the comparison of NIXT observations with models of stationary loops might provide a new diagnostic: the determination of the loop plasma pressure from measurements of brightness distribution along the loop.

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