Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987apj...319..465m&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 319, Aug. 1, 1987, p. 465-480. NASA-Navy-sponsored research.
Physics
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Coronal Loops, Dynamic Response, Plasma Heating, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Physics, Transition Points, Atmospheric Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Ultraviolet Spectra
Scientific paper
Observations of Doppler shifts in UV emission lines formed in the solar transition region show continual plasma downflows and impulsive plasma upflows. Using numerical simulations, the authors examine the conjecture that areas of downflowing plasma are the base regions of coronal loops in which the heating is gradually decreasing and that areas of upflowing plasma are the base regions of coronal loops in which the heating rate is gradually increasing. Beginning with a coronal loop in equilibrium, the heating rate is reduced on time scales of 100, 1000, and 2000 s to 10 percent and 1 percent of the initial value, and the loop is allowed to evolve to a new equilibrium. The heating rate for the cooled models is then increased back to the initial value on the same time scales. While significant mass motions do develop in the simulations, both the emission measure and the velocity at 100,000 K do not show the characteristics present in UV observations.
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