Multi-wavelength Diagnostics of Bombardment by Non-thermal Particles in Solar Flares

Chromospheric lines, including Ha, Lyα, Lyβand CaⅡK, CaⅡ8542, are systemically and quantitatively investigated with respect to the non-thermal excitation and ionization due to particle beam bombardment for a series of solar semi-empirical atmospheric models. As a result we propose to use the contrast in the integrated intensity of hydrogen lines to estimate the total energy flux of the bombarding beam during the solar flare impulsive phase. Partial frequency redistribution is considered in the Lyαline calculation and a smaller intensity enhancement in the Ha line-centers is found than in the previous results of Fang et al.     

Chromospheric evolution and the flare activity of super-active region NOAA 6555

Super-active region NOAA 6555 was highly flare productive during the period March 21st–27th, 1991 of its disk passage. We have st udied its chromospheric activity using high spatial resolution Hα filtergrams taken at Udaipur along with MSFC vector magnetograms. A possible relationship of flare productivity and the variation in shear has been explored. Flares were generally seen in those subareas of the active region which possessed closed magnetic field configuration, whereas only minor flares and/or surges occurred in subareas showing open magnetic field configuration. Physical mechanisms responsible for the observed surges are also discussed.     

1989年8月17日太阳射电尖峰事件的准周期脉动及EFB分析

本文分析了云南天文台１０ｍ射电望远镜在２ｌｃｍ波段上观测到的一次尖峰辐射事件，这次事件发生在５６２９活动区（Ｓ１６Ｗ１０９），它伴随了Ｘ２·９／ＳＦ耀斑及边缘耀斑环，并且有质子流量的上升和一次罕见的地磁场突然反相脉冲与之对应．我们从耀斑环的Ｈβ照片可以看出，在尖峰辐射发生前，原先存在的耀斑环的顶部开始变亮，而尖峰开始后环顶亮度达到极大，说明这次尖峰辐射与耀斑环顶部增亮有关，辐射很可能来自环顶．从尖峰事件的时间轮廓得到的ＦＦＴ功率谱表明存在１５０ｍｓ的准周期脉动．按照Ｍｃｌｅａｎ等人的模型，即脉动是由俘获在磁通管内的电子的径向振荡引起，可以推断，这次尖峰辐射与Ｆｅｒｍｉ机制激发快速电子有关，且尖峰的发生需要被俘获的电子．此外，我们将这次尖峰事件分解为几百个元耀斑爆发（ＥＦＢ），并且讨论了这些ＥＦＢ的性质．     

VLA and MERLIN observations of RZ Cassiopeiae

We present radio interferometric observations of the Algol-type binary system RZ Cassiopeiae made with the VLA and MERLIN arrays at 6 cm over an incomplete orbital cycle of the system (1.195 d). We detected RZ Cas with both instruments. The images were unresolved in both cases, with angular extents comparable to the synthesized beams. The peak flux density in the VLA image was 1.14 mJy beam⁻¹ and in the MERLIN image it was 0.93 mJy beam⁻¹. The derived brightness temperatures are  4.02 × 10⁸  and  4.35 × 10⁸ K  and the effective electron energies are 0.347 and 0.346 MeV for the MERLIN and VLA data respectively. The radio light curve shows an interesting modulation centred close to the primary eclipse which seems to correlate with ASCA SIS observations of the system. The results can be interpreted as an emitting region on the outer hemisphere of the cool component aligned along the centroid axis of the binary system.     

X-ray spectroscopy of stellar coronae

Summary From the early discovery in 1948 of X-rays from the Solar corona, X-ray spectroscopy has proven to be an invaluable tool in studying hot astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Because the emission line spectra and continua from optically thin plasmas are fairly well known, high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy has its most obvious application in the measurement of optically thin sources such as the coronae of stars. In particular X-ray observations with theEINSTEIN observatory have demonstrated that soft X-ray emitting coronae are a common feature among stars on the cool side of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with the probable exception of single very cool giant and supergiant stars and A-type dwarfs. Observations with the spectrometers aboardEINSTEIN andEXOSAT have shown that data of even modest spectral resolution (/ = 10–100) permit the identification of coronal material at different temperatures whose existence may relate to a range of possible magnetic loop structures in the hot outer atmospheres of these stars. The higher spectral resolution of the next generation of spectrometers aboard NASA'sAXAF and ESA'sXMM will allow to fully resolve the coronal temperature structure and to enable velocity diagnostics and the determination of coronal densities, from which the loop geometry (i.e. surface filling factors and loop lengths) can be derived. In this paper various diagnostic techniques are reviewed and the spectral results fromEINSTEIN andEXOSAT are discussed. A number of spectral simulations forAXAF andXMM, especially high-resolution iron K-shell, L-shell, and2s-2p spectra in the wavelength regions around 1.9 Å, 10 Å, and 100 Å, respectively, are shown to demonstrate the capabilities for temperature, density, and velocity diagnostics. Finally, iron K-shell spectra are simulated for various types of detectors such as microcalorimeter, Nb-junction, and CCD.     

太阳耀斑的GPS监测方法及实例分析

利用GPS伪距与载波相位联合数据处理的方法，分析了2000年7月14日太阳耀斑爆发期间，武汉、北京、乌鲁木齐GPS观测数据得到的电离层TEC，提出了利用多项式拟合计算由耀斑引起的电离层TEC增加量的方法。     

气球携带碘化银焰弹技术研究

主要介绍在北京地区开展气球携带碘化银焰弹雨雪作业的作业技术，经济效益等问题。通过各种增雨雪技术比较，认敢球携带碘化银焰弹增雨雪作业在北方干旱地区的抗旱工作中或作为收音机增雨雪作业的补充手段具有应用价值     

Recent advances in solar radio physics

We review high spatial resolution microwave observations of solar active regions, coronal loops and flares. Observations of preflare active regions are presented; in particular we discuss the interpretations of reversal of polarization at the flare site and the role of newly emerging flux in triggering the onset of flares. We discuss the spatial locations of microwave burst emitting regions; loops or arcades of loops appear to be the sites of flare energy release in microwave bursts. We provide direct observational evidence of magnetic reconnection as the primary cause of acceleration of electrons in microwave bursts.     

太阳宇宙线高能电子能谱的形成

提出了一个太阳脉冲和经变耀斑中高能太阳宇宙线电子能谱的形成模型，探讨了高能电子通过日冕捕获区的库仑损失、轫致辐射和同步辐射等物理过程，首次研究了日冕等离子体尾场对太阳宇宙线电子的加速及其能谱的形成．所得结果和观测谱能很好地符合，从而较合理地阐明了脉冲耀斑和经变耀斑两类太阳宇宙线高能电子谱的结构．     

1989年8月17日耀斑后环系速度场分析

本文给出了１９８９ 年８ 月１７ 日耀斑后环的观测视向速度场,在环内物质在太阳重力、磁场梯度和大气压力梯度联合作用下沿环腿螺旋上升和环内物质密度由环腿向环顶和环足线性递增的假设下,理论上计算了该环系的视向速度场,理论计算和观测结果基本相符,似乎为耀斑物质由色球蒸发作上升运动的观点提供了间接的例证