Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-01-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Cent. Eur. Astrophys. Bull
Scientific paper
We study the hydrogen Lyman emission in various solar features - now including Lyman-alpha observations free from geocoronal absorption - and investigate statistically the imprint of flows and of the magnetic field on the line profile and radiance distribution. As a new result, we found that in Lyman-alpha rasters locations with higher opacity cluster in the cell interior, while the network has a trend to flatter profiles. Even deeper self reversals and larger peak distances were found in coronal hole spectra. We also compare simultaneous Lyman-alpha and Lyman-beta profiles. There is an obvious correspondence between asymmetry and redshift for both lines, but, most surprisingly, the asymmetries of Lyman-alpha and Lyman-beta are opposite. We conclude that in both cases downflows determine the line profile, in case of Lyman-alpha by absorption and in the case of Ly-beta by emission. Our results show that the magnetically structured atmosphere plays a dominating role in the line formation and indicate the presence of a persisting downflow at both footpoints of closed loops. We claim that this is the manifestation of a fundamental mass transportation process, which Foukal back in 1978 introduced as the 'coronal convection'.
Curdt Werner
Marsch Eckart
Tian Hui
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