Acoustic waves in the solar atmosphere. VII - Non-grey, non-LTE H(-) models

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Jul 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985a%26a...148..217s&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 148, no. 1, July 1985, p. 217-225.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Chromosphere, Hydrogen Ions, Magnetoacoustic Waves, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Solar Atmosphere, Hydrodynamics, Opacity, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Stellar Models

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The propagation and shock formation of radiatively damped acoustic waves in the solar chromosphere are studied under the assumption that H(-) is the only absorber; the opacity is non-grey. Deviations from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) are permitted. The results of numerical simulations show the depth dependence of the heating by the acoustic waves to be insensitive to the mean state of the atmosphere. After the waves have developed into shocks, their energy flux decays exponentially with a constant damping length of about 1.4 times the pressure scale height, independent of initial flux and wave period. Departures from LTE have a strong influence on the mean temperature structure in dynamical chromosphere models; this is even more pronounced in models with reduced particle density - simulating conditions in magnetic flux tubes - which show significantly increased temperatures in response to mechanical heating. When the energy dissipation of the waves is sufficiently large to dissociate most of the H(-) ions, a strong temperature rise is found that is reminiscent of the temperature structure in the transition zone between chromosphere and corona; the energy flux remaining in the waves then drives mass motions.

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