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Jul 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...411..406d&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 411, no. 1, p. 406-409.
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Coronal Loops, Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Solar Granulation, Solar Magnetic Field, Spectroheliographs, Ultraviolet Spectra, Energy Transfer, High Temperature Plasmas, Solar Corona, Solar Temperature
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We correlate EUV spectroheliograms of the quiet sun taken by the Harvard EUV Spectroheliometer on Skylab with a magnetogram taken within 15-20 minutes by the 40 channel magnetograph at Kitt Peak. Focus is on the O VI and Ne VII ions which are formed in the hotter transition region and the Mg x ion which is formed in the corona. Since no imaged observations in lines from T = 2 x 10 exp 5 - 10 exp 6 K temperature region have been made since Skylab, these data are unique in providing opportunities to investigate the hotter transition region and its relationship to the corona. The signature of an EUV intranetwork loop is a small EUV brightening located on the neutral line of a small magnetic bipole within the supergranular network. The data clearly show such features. Some of these features are visible at coronal temperatures, indicating that network loops can reach 10 exp 6 K. Others are bright in the lines formed below 10 exp 6 K but occur in regions of depleted coronal emission, which cannot be explained by models based on back-heating from a large-scale corona. We conclude that some fraction of the quiet solar EUV output is generated within network loops that are effectively insulated from the corona.
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