Responses of large-scale coronal structures to chromospheric activity

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993soph..146..313f&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 146, no. 2, p. 313-330.

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Chromosphere, Satellite Imagery, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Corona, Solar Limb, X Ray Imagery, Plasma Temperature, Solar Maximum Mission, Sunspots

Scientific paper

We have followed the transit of two active regions across the western solar limb during June 29 through July 2, 1980, as imaged in 3.5-16 keV X-rays by HXIS aboard the SMM. During frequent brightenings of large-scale coronal structures, hard X-ray emission in the 11-16 keV energy band was recorded up to altitudes of 76,000 km. Soft X-rays could be seen in excess of 250,000 km altitude above the photospheric active region. Many X-ray brightenings low in the corona in the active regions were followed by enhancements high in the corona in the large-scale coronal structures. Although subsequent enhancements rarely appeared in the same position, similar portions of the corona brightened intermittently, indicating that the general configuration of the coronal structures above the active regions did not change much, in spite of the frequent energy inputs. These inputs were of two kinds: nonthermal, with very fast response at high coronal altitudes within seconds or tens of seconds, and thermal, with a delay of several minutes. The nonthermal response is short-lived, reflecting the time profile of the primary source; the thermal response is more gradual and longer lasting than the primary source. In some enhancements of large-scale coronal structures both these kinds of response occur and can be clearly recognized. There are also active-region brightenings without any response in the high corona and, vice versa, high-corona brightenings without any obvious primary source; in the latter case, it is likely that the source was hidden behind the limb.

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