The X-ray Intensity Distribution of the Solar Corona and its Variability

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We report initial analysis of image brightness distributions that concisely represent the spatial structure of the solar X-ray corona. This research makes use of histograms of pixel brightnesses obtained from whole-Sun images from the soft X-ray telescope (SXT) aboard Yohkoh. We discover that the soft X-ray intensity histogram essentially consists of a power-law distribution in bright regions and another one in less bright regions. Active regions show a power-law intensity distribution, whereas quiet regions have non-power law distribution. The comparison of the histograms in the active and less active phases shows that the integrated soft X-ray variability is related to a variation of the total area and the appearance/disappearance of bright component of active regions. The overall shapes of the X-ray histograms are similar to those of histograms of the photospheric magnetic fields given by Schrijver and Harvey (1989), implying that a coronal brightness distribution is related to a magnetic field distribution on the photosphere.

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