Observational constraints on heating processes

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Nov 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984esasp.220..133j&link_type=abstract

In ESA The Hydromagnetics of the Sun p 133-136 (SEE N85-25091 14-92)

Physics

Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Solar Corona, Solar Heating, Beta Factor, Magnetic Flux, Solar Magnetic Field, Wave Propagation

Scientific paper

It is shown how spectroscopic measurements of emission line fluxes and widths relate to the plasma paramaters relevant to wave heating processes, e.g., the magnetic field strength and its fluctuation, the damping length and plasma beta. In the solar transition region and inner corona it is found that beta 1 rather than 1, a regime where it is difficult to specify the most relevant wave propagation and dissipation modes. But in low gravity, low density stellar coronas beta 1 and shock dissipation of fast mode MHD waves is promising. The need for further measurements of line profiles and of flux and profile periodicities in the inner corona is stressed and it is shown how systematic studies across coronal holes might elucidate the solar coronal heating mechanism.

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