Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005apj...622..737a&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 622, Issue 1, pp. 737-743.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Sun: Solar Wind, Sun: Corona, Sun: Uv Radiation
Scientific paper
In modeling of the resonantly scattered solar coronal Lyα line of H I, the intensity of the chromospheric source is often assumed to be uniform. We investigate the validity of this assumption. After establishing a correlation between the H I 121.6 nm and He II 30.4 nm line intensities, we build Carrington maps of the Lyα chromosphere from SOHO EUV Imaging Telescope data. These maps are used to compute the Lyα irradiance throughout the corona and heliosphere. A 15% latitudinal anisotropy is found at 1 AU at solar minimum, and this value becomes larger closer to the Sun. The effect of the flux anisotropy on the total intensity of the Lyα resonantly scattered coronal radiation is quantified. We find that at solar minimum, the uniform-disk assumption leads to systematic overestimates of the total intensity of the polar regions by 15% on average. The evolution of this effect with solar activity and the case of other resonantly scattered coronal lines are discussed.
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