Does TRACE Resolve Isothermal Coronal Loops?

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006spd....37.0115w&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #37, #1.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.217

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Historically, increasing resolution of solar data has revealed ever smaller length scales for both the thermodynamics and the magnetic structure of the corona. Furthermore, the dynamics there are governed by magnetohydrodynamic processes which are difficult to observe or model. Recent results in the literature suggest that some coronal loops with cross-sections near the resolution limits of the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (pixel size = 0.5 arc-seconds, or approx. 360 km) are, in fact, isothermally homogeneous and thus may be identified as elementary loop strands. This poster presents some ongoing work that applies state-of-the-art estimation of differential emission measures in order to evaluate these claims for a sample of loops. We find that the data give no evidence to prefer the "isothermal" hypothesis over the "multithermal" hypothesis. The authors are supported by the following funds: contract SP02H820IR to the Lockheed-Martin Corp.; NSF grant ATM-0402729; NASA grant NNG05GE68G; and NASA contracts NAS8-39073 and NAS8-03060.

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