Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997apj...480..400w&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal v.480, p.400
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Sun: Abundances, Sun: Activity
Scientific paper
Early work on Skylab spectroheliograms showed that deep-lying impulsive flares and newly emerged active regions showed a high relative abundance of neon, thought to be representative of the unknown neon abundance in the underlying photosphere. In pursuit of this idea a survey of emerging magnetic flux sequences on Skylab spectroheliograms (300--600 A) has been made, and from these the Ne/Mg abundance ratio has been derived by combining plots of the ion differential emission measures. From the initial phase of five emerging flux sequences a stable value of the Ne/Mg abundance ratio equal to 3.16 +/- 0.07 has been determined. Normalizing this to the well-determined abundance of magnesium, the photospheric abundance of neon is {log} {Neon}=8.08+/-0.06 ,\quad {log} {H}=12 . This result is compared with previous estimates which used "local galactic values" as a proxy for the unknown neon abundance. The present results are also compared with a slightly larger Ne/Mg ratio of 3.6 +/- 0.4 (log Neon = 8.14) observed in a deep-lying impulsive flare, also thought to expose a sample of photospheric material.
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