Large-scale coronal temperature and density distributions, 1984-1992

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Sep 1993

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 414, no. 2, p. L145-L148.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

51

Density Distribution, Solar Corona, Solar Temperature, Electron Density (Concentration), Plasma Temperature, Solar Cycles, Solar Magnetic Field, Spectrophotometry, Temperature Distribution

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We characterize the temperature and the density structure of the corona utilizing spectrophotometric observations at different heights but at the same latitude during the descending phase of cycle 21 through the ascending phase of cycle 22. The data include ground-based intensity observations of the green (Fe XIV 5303) and red (Fe X 6374) coronal forbidden lines, photospheric magnetographs from the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak, and synoptic maps of white-light K-coronal polarized brightness from the High Altitude Observatory. A determination of plasma temperature, T, can be estimated from the intensity ratio Fe X/Fe XIV (where T is inversely proportional to the ratio), since both emission lines come from ionized states of Fe, and the ratio is only weakly dependent on density. Distributions of the electron temperature from the line ratio and the polarized brightness which yields electron density of the corona during the descending and the ascending phases of solar cycles 21 and 22 are presented. These data refer to structures of the corona which are relatively large scale, having a temporal coherence of at least two or more synoptic rotation periods, such as the streamer belts, the individual helmet streamers, and the larger coronal holes.

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