Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sh41b21b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SH41B-21
Physics
7546 Transition Region, 7549 Ultraviolet Emissions
Scientific paper
With high quality UV spectroscopy from the SoHO spacecraft, the physical structure of the solar Transition Region (TR) is of renewed interest. We have investigated the thermodynamic structure of the TR using a one dimensional magnetic tube model constrained to Raymond & Doyle's Differential Emission Measure (DEM) in the average quiet sun. We have included the effect of the expansion of magnetic flux tube and a heating which is required in addition to conductive heat, convective energy and radiative cooling. From the resulting heating and flux tube geometry, we also investigated upflows probable in the transition region. To reproduce the Doppler shift of UV lines measured using SoHO/SUMER (Chae, Yun, & Poland 1998), flux tube needs to expand rapidly above T=105 K at a rate of radius increase up to (7.4x 10-2 km-1)~ r4.1 where r4.1 is the radius at log T = 4.1. To balance the energy, an energy supply by more than (9.3x 104 erg cm-2 s-1)~π r4.12 is required at the region between 1.3x 104 K and 2.5x 104 K regardless of filling factor, suggesting a local heating in the chromosphere. As for upflows, in subsonic flow cases, a model with the same additional energy loss as in a downflow is probable. Also, supersonic flows could be easily made and, in this case, supersonic upflows could carry extra energy to corona without increasing DEM, showing the possibility that upflows play a role in corona heating. This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Institute Program, Ministry of Education (BSRI-98-5408) and by the BK21 Project of the Korean Government.
Bong Suchan
Chae Jongchul
Lee Julian
Yun Hyokun
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