On the heating of the solar chromosphere by hydromagnetic waves with a five-minute period

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Chromosphere, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Solar Atmosphere, Atmospheric Heating, Energy Budgets, Gravity Waves, Plasma Heating

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Attention is given to a theoretical model of the solar chromosphere based on heating by resistive disipation of Alfven-gravity waves, with the energy deposition by Joule effect balanced against losses by thermal radiation. The main input to the model is the exact calculation of the amplitudes and phases of the velocity perturbation, magnetic field, and electric current associated with an Alfven-gravity wave propagating vertically in the chromosphere. The analytical temperature and density profiles calculated from the theory are consistent with the empirical data from the BCA, HSRA and VAL81. A consequence of the model is that the Joule heating exceeds radiative losses up to 2.1 Mn above unit optical depth, and thus Alfven-gravity waves are responsible for the heating of the whole of the chromosphere, but not of the corona and transition region.

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