Photospheric electric current and transition region brightness within an active region

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Apr 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984soph...91..235d&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 91, April 1984, p. 235-242.

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Electric Current, Photosphere, Solar Activity, Brightness Distribution, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Solar Magnetic Field, Spectroheliographs

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Distributions of vertical electrical current density J(z) calculated from vector measurements of the photospheric magnetic field are compared with ultraviolet spectroheliograms to investigate whether resistive heating is an important source of enhanced emission in the transition region. The photospheric magnetic fields in Active Region 2372 were measured on April 6 and 7, 1980 with the Marshall Space Flight Center vector magnetograph; ultraviolet wavelength spectroheliograms (L-alpha and N V 1239 A) were obtained with the UV Spectrometer and Polarimeter experiment aboard the Solar Maximum Mission satellite. Spatial registration of the J(z) (5 arcsec resolution) and UV (3 arcsec resolution) maps indicates that the maximum current density is cospatial with a minor but persistent UV enhancement, but there is little detected current associated with other nearby bright areas. It is concluded that, although resistive heating may be important in the transition region, the currents responsible for the heating are largely unresolved in the present measurements and have no simple correlation with the residual current measured on 5-arcsec scales.

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