The Sun as an X-Ray Star. IV. The Contribution of Different Regions of the Corona to Its X-Ray Spectrum

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Oct 2001

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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 560, Issue 1, pp. 499-513.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Activity, Stars: Coronae, Sun: Activity, Sun: Corona

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We study X-ray-synthesized spectra of solar regions as templates to interpret analogous stellar spectra. We define three classes of coronal structures of different brightness, low (background quiet corona), medium (active regions), and high (active region cores), and determine their contribution to the solar X-ray emission measure versus temperature, EM(T), luminosity, and spectrum. This study defines the extent of the solar analogy quantitatively and accurately. To this end, we have selected a large sample of full-disk Yohkoh soft X-ray telescope observations taken between the maximum and the minimum of solar cycle 22, obtaining the contribution of each class to the whole Sun's EM(T). From the EM(T) distributions, we synthesize the X-ray spectra of the Sun and of the single classes of solar coronal regions as they would be collected with the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) and ASCA Solid-State Imaging Spectrometer. We find that the Sun during the cycle fits well in the stellar scenario as a low-activity star. The ROSAT PSPC hardness ratio (HR) and surface X-ray flux, FPSPC, both increase going from the background corona to the active regions and the cores of the active regions, and range between the values of low and intermediate activity stars. We suggest that the coronae of these stars may be explained as the effect of structures similar to those present on the Sun and that the various levels of X-ray luminosity, HR, and FPSPC are achieved by changing the surface coverage of the different classes of coronal regions.

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