Characteristics of quiet Sun cell and network brightenings

Details Characteristics of quiet Sun cell and network brightenings Characteristics of quiet Sun cell and network brightenings

Oct 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000a%26a...362..371h&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.362, p.371-378 (2000)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Sun: Corona, Sun: Transition Region, Sun: Uv Radiation

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Extreme ultraviolet observations of the quiet Sun are made with the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (cds) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (soho). It has been previously noted that frequent transition region brightenings occur in both the bright network and dark cell regions. Analysing 1125 events, we determined the characteristics of the brightenings in the cell and network regions which include the duration, energy, and intensity increase above the background. Network brightenings are found to be larger than cell events occurring with a mean duration of 150 s and releasing an average of 1026.9 ergs per event. Cell brightenings, on the other hand, last for an average of 96 s and release 1025.8 ergs per event. It has also been found that the distribution of energy is a power-law which is different in the cell (gamma =2.5) and network (gamma =1.5) regions. When the entire quiet Sun region is analysed the value of gamma is 1.7. The number of events per cds pixel is approximately the same, and a histogram of the ratio ([peak value - background]/background) shows similar values for both the cell and network. It is important to analyse the cell and network regions separately in the context of coronal heating by such small flare-like events.

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