The absolute coronal abundances of sulfur, calcium, and iron from Yohkoh-BCS flare spectra

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Aug 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999a%26a...348..286f&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.348, p.286-294 (1999)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

58

Sun: Abundances, Sun: Corona, Sun: Flares, Sun: X-Rays, Gamma Rays

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Using X-ray spectra from the Bragg Crystal Spectrometer on Yohkoh, we have derived the absolute coronal abundances of sulfur, calcium, and iron using the ratio of the flux in the S XV, Ca XIX and Fe XXV resonance lines to the continuum near the Ca XIX and S XV resonance lines. For the 57 flares analyzed here, multi-thermal effects have been taken into account using a differential emission measure analysis. We compare these abundances of S, Ca, and Fe with their photospheric values and with values derived for coronal plasma from both spectral and solar energetic particle data. The mean Yohkoh abundance of sulfur relative to hydrogen is 7.9 x 10(-6) , smaller than the photospheric value by over a factor of two. The mean abundance of calcium is 3.4 x 10(-6) , about 50% greater than the photospheric value. The mean abundance of iron shows greater scatter around its mean value of 4.5 x 10(-5) , but is still higher than the accepted photospheric value. Comparison of these results with others already in the literature, suggests that the coronal abundance-normalization problem does not have a simple solution.

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