Convective shifts of iron lines in the spectrum of the solar photosphere

Details Convective shifts of iron lines in the spectrum of the solar photosphere Convective shifts of iron lines in the spectrum of the solar photosphere

2010-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/1004.3438v1

Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2002, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 18-32; Kinematics Phys. Celest. Bodies, 2002, vol. 18, no. 1, p.12

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

13 pages, 5 figures, pudlished in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel (in Russian), Kinematics Phys. Celest. Bodies (in English)

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The influence of the convective structure of the solar photosphere on the shifts of spectral lines of iron was studied. Line profiles in the visible and infrared spectrum were synthesized with the use of 2-D time-dependent hydrodynamic solar model atmospheres. The dependence of line shifts on excitation potential, wavelength, and line strength was analyzed, along with the depression contribution functions. The line shifts were found to depend on the location of the line formation region in convective cells and the difference between the line depression contributions from granules and intergranular lanes. In visible spectrum the weak and moderate lines are formed deep in the photosphere. Their effective line formation region is located in the central parts of granules, which make the major contribution to the absorption of spatially unresolved lines. The cores of strong lines are formed in upper photospheric layers where is formed reversed granulation due to convection reversal and physical conditions change drastically there. As a consequence the depression contributions in the strong line from intergranular lanes with downflows substantially increase. This accounts for smaller blue shifts of strong lines. In infrared spectrum the observed decrease in the blue line shifts is explained by the fact that their effective line formation regions lie higher in the photosphere and extend much further into the reversed granulation region due to the line opacity rise with the increase of line wavelength. Additionally the effective line formation depths of the synthesized visible and infrared Fe I lines and their dependence on line parameters is discussed.

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