The compton effect in the chromosphere

We assume that the lines of the solar spectrum, formed in the reversing layer, when travelling for an optical thickness τ in the chromosphere are subjected to a red shift Δλ(τ) due to multiple Compton scattering. We limit our investigation to the difference of the red shift at the limb—the red shift at the centre of the disc giving a good agreement between the theoretical results and observations.     

The compton effect in the chromosphere,III

It is shown that in the solar spectrum at the centre of the disc there is evidence of a red shift due to generalized Compton effect and Thomson scattering in the chrosmophere. It is also shown that there is no proof of the Einstein effect.The analysis of the emission lines of the limb spectrum confirms this point of view and is in accord with the previous results obtained from the study of the ultraviolet limb spectrum.At last a study of the spectra of Orionis suggests the possibility that a quite large Compton red shift is present in the spectrum of the star.     

Effects of Thomson scattering on the shape of a spectral line

The effect of Thomson scattering and Compton effect on the shape of a spectral line is studied in the case of a plane-parallel atmosphere. The theoretical values of red shift and intensity at the top of the line, having an equivalent width 5√π10^?10 cm, and of the red asymmetry are tabulated for 62 different values of the optical thickness τ′; from τ′=0.2/√3 to τ′=2.6/√3. The case of solar atmosphere is considered and it is shown that all main features of the observed red shifts can be interpreted by means of a scattering theory, with an error smaller than one milliängström. The need of further measurements is pointed out.     

1979年9月19日3B级耀斑光谱分析:金属线的不对称性和线心位移

本文研究了1979年9月19日3B级耀斑金属谱线的不对称性和线心位移.结果表明:强金属线红不对称占主要地位,少数弱金属线也有蓝不对称存在;不对称程度极大发生于线心强度极大之前;不对称性有时可由蓝变红;不管不对称程度如何,线心的位移却很小,总体上仅表现为极微弱的蓝移.文中认为,耀斑爆发时色球压缩区的向下扩展及由此引起的温度极小区上下的物质运动这个动力学过程可基本解释这些观测现象.金属线的研究是对H_α和CaIIK线光谱研究的补充.     

Spectral analysis of the 3B flare on September 19, 1979: asymmetries and shifts of metallic lines

The asymmetries and Doppler shifts of metallic lines of the 3B flare on September 19, 1979 are investigated in this paper. The results show that: (1) red asymmetries dominate in strong metallic lines, but blue asymmetries also exist in some weak lines; (2) the maximum of the line asymmetry always precedes the maximum of the line intensity; (3) the blue asymmetry occurs generally in the early phase, and can occasionally turn to a red one in the later phase; and (4) the line center has no obvious shift, regardless of the line asymmetry. It is proposed that, the mass motions around the temperature minimum region caused by the impulsive heating or the propagation of the chromospheric condensation can explain these observational results. The study on metallic lines has an auxiliary help for understanding the dynamic process in the lower atmosphere of solar flares.     

Observations of Transition Region Plasma

Recent space missions have changed our view of the solar transition region. In particular the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA's TRACE satellite have provided a unique opportunity to explore the solar atmosphere in detail. The combination of high spatial, spectral and temporal observations has made it possible to derive three dimensional images of the emission and velocity structures of solar features. Active region loop structures at transition region temperatures appear to be extremely time variable and dynamic, a result with profound implications for our understanding and modeling of the upper solar atmosphere. Large Dopplershifts have also been observed in these structures. A 3-minute transition region oscillation has been observed above sunspots suggesting upward-propagating acoustic waves. Clear evidence of velocity oscillations in the internetwork regions has also been observed in both the chromosphere and the transition region. The longstanding and puzzling problem of the apparent net red shift of emission lines from the transition region has been revisited. The extensive wavelength coverage of the SOHO spectrometers has made it possible to extend the measurements to much higher temperatures compared to previous instruments. The combination of magnetograms, EUV spectral imaging and the high resolution broad-band images from TRACE has also given us new insight concerning the structure of the transition region and its relation with the photospheric magnetic field. Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005224709046     

太阳光球磁通量南北不对称性研究

运用统计方法系统研究了1978-2002年太阳光球磁通量南北不对称性变化特征，发现其与太阳活动周有关．不对称值在太阳活动极小年要明显高于太阳活动极大年，并且磁通量变化总是由上升段的北半球占优逐渐过渡到下降段的南半球占优．另外运用小波变换方法详细讨论了这种不对称性变化可能存在的周期信息．     

NOAA6361活动区现象分析

本文分析了ＮＯＡＡ６３６１活动区中的一些现象，发现该活动区在衰亡阶段经历了两次同极性黑子的复合过程，复合后的黑子本影间均有光桥存在，观测结果倾向于支持Ｐａｒｋｅｒ１９７９年提出的黑子多磁流管模型。１４日复合后的黑子本影还顺时针方向旋转了约７０度角，从半影纤维的同样顺时针旋转可以认为：该黑子的半影磁场并非是普遍认为的简单的本影磁场的发散部分。我们还观测到另外两个比较有趣的现象：①δ黑子中的ｐ极性黑子     

On the Freundlich red shift

The Freundlich red shift of wavelengths in the solar spectrum is discussed. Born's approach on the photon-photon interaction is used in conjunction with Melvin's recalculation of Freundlich's universal constant in order to derive the cross-section for scattering in the solar atmosphere. The new cross-section appears to be = 1.58 × 10^–18 cm², which is about one thousand times Born's estimate for the effective cross-section. However, a modified value of the constant is in a good agreement with the one obtained by Ter Haar by scattering process methods, which leads to 10^–18 cm² for the photon-photon interaction cross-section of the solar atmosphere. A new expression for Freundlich's red shift formula is obtained. Some numerical examples are given and some interesting aspects of Freundlich's parameters are discussed.     

Application of diffusion — Convection model to diurnal anisotropy data

The diurnal anisotropy of cosmic-ray intensity observed over the period 1970–1977 has been analysed using neutron-monitor data of the Athens and Deep River stations. Our results indicate that the time of the maximum of diurnal variation shows a remarkable systematic shift towards earlier hours than normally beginning in 1971. This phase shift continued until 1976, the solar activity minimum, except for a sudden shift to a later hour for one year, in 1974, the secondary maximum of solar activity.This behavior of the diurnal time of maximum has been shown to be consistent with the convective- diffusive mechanism which relates the solar diurnal anisotropy of cosmic-rays to the dynamics of the solar wind and of the interplanetary magnetic field. Once again we have confirmed the field-aligned direction of the diffusive vector independently of the interplanetary magnetic field polarity. It is also noteworthy that the diurnal phase may follow in time the variations of the size of the polar coronal holes. All these are in agreement with the drift motions of cosmic-ray particles in the interplanetarty magnetic field during this time period.     

Soho Observations of the Connection Between Line Profile Parameters in Active and Quiet Regions and the Net Red Shift in Euv Emission Lines

We present high spatial and spectral resolution observations of one active and one quiet-Sun region, obtained with CDS and SUMER on SOHO. The connections between the line profile parameters are studied and a systematic wavelength shift towards the red with increasing peak line intensity (line broadening) is detected. The large scatter in the data calls for another approach. We apply conditional probability analysis to a series of EUV emission lines and find significant correlations between line profile parameters. For a given interval in wavelength shift we find that: (1) line profiles with large intensities (line widths) and red shifts above the average constitute an increasing fraction of the profiles as the relative wavelength shift increases, (2) line profiles with large intensities (line widths) and blue shifts compared to the average, on the other hand, constitute a decreasing fraction of the profiles as the relative wavelength shift increases. These results extend the findings of an earlier quiet-Sun study from one to several emission lines and expand the validity to include the active region. Interestingly, the active region observations show correlations between peak line intensity and wavelength shift in the coronal lines.The tendency for red-shifted profiles to be more intense than blue-shifted profiles will shift line profiles derived by integrating along the slit towards the red. From the present observations we are not able to determine the fraction of the net red shift that emerges from this correlation. We suggest that the same mechanism is responsible both for the correlation between the line profile parameters and for the differential red shift between the transition region and chromospheric emission lines.     

Study of the Diurnal Variation of Cosmic Rays during Different Phases of Solar Activity

The pressure-corrected hourly counting rate data of ground-based super neutron monitor stations, situated in different latitudes, have been employed to study the characteristics of the long-term variation of cosmic-ray diurnal anisotropy for a long (44-year) period (1965?–?2008). Some of these super neutron monitors are situated in low latitudes with high cutoff rigidity. Annual averages of the diurnal amplitudes and phases have been obtained for each station. It is found that the amplitude of the diurnal anisotropy varies with a period of one solar activity cycle (11 years), whereas the diurnal phase varies with a period of 22 years (one solar magnetic cycle). The average diurnal amplitudes and phases have also been calculated by grouping the days on the basis of ascending and descending periods of each solar cycle (Cycles 20, 21, 22, and 23). Systematic and significant differences are observed in the characteristics of the diurnal variation between the descending periods of the odd and even solar cycles. The overall vector averages of the descending periods of the even solar cycles (20 and 22) show significantly smaller diurnal amplitudes compared to the vector averages of the descending periods of the odd solar cycles (21 and 23). In contrast, we find a large diurnal phase shift to earlier hours only during the descending periods of even solar cycles (20 and 22), as compared to almost no shift in the diurnal phase during the descending periods of odd solar cycles. Further, the overall vector average diurnal amplitudes of the ascending period of odd and even solar cycles remain invariant from one ascending period to the other, or even between the even and odd solar cycles. However, we do find a significant diurnal phase shift to earlier hours during the ascending periods of odd solar cycles (21 and 23) in comparison to the diurnal phase in the ascending periods of even solar cycles (20 and 22).     

Estimating Long-Term Solar Irradiance Variability: A New Approach

The detection of solar irradiance variations (both bolometric and at various wavelengths) by satellite-based experiments during the last one-and-a-half decades stimulated modeling efforts to help identify their causes and to provide estimates of irradiance data for those time intervals when no satellite observations exist. In this paper we present estimates of the long-term irradiance changes developed with Fourier and wavelet transforms. The month-to-month irradiance variations, after removing the solar cycle related long-term changes, are studied with the cross-correlation technique. Results of the analysis reveal a significant phase shift at 3 months between the full-disk magnetic field strength and total solar and UV irradiance, with irradiance leading the magnetic field variability. In addition to this time delay between the changes in solar irradiance and the magnetic field, a 10-month phase shift has been found between the UV flux at 280 nm and total solar irradiance corrected for sunspot darkening. The existence of these phase shifts suggests the possibility of a coupling between the physical processes taking place below, in, and above the photosphere.     

On the variation of the direct solar radiation during the annular solar eclipse of April 29, 1976

Measurements of the direct solar radiation during the annular solar eclipse of April 29, 1976 are given in three wavelength bands (centered on 800, 680, and 450 nm). A decrease of the solar radiation after the last contact was observed, especially in the red and infrared. This is considered in connection with the results of other direct light and zenith light measurements.     

Solar gravitational redshift

Wavelengths of solar spectrum lines should be shifted toward the red by the Sun's gravitational field as predicted by metric theories of gravity according to the principle of equivalence. Photographic wavelengths of 738 solar Fe i lines and their corresponding laboratory wavelengths have been studied. The measured solar wavelength minus the laboratory wavelength (_observed) averaged for the strong lines agrees well with the theoretically predicted shift (_theoretical). Studies show that the departures depend on line strength. No dependence of the departures on wavelength was found within the existing data.By studying strong lines over a wide spectral range, velocity shifts caused by the complex motions in the solar atmosphere seem to affect the results in a minimal fashion.     

Area of polar coronal holes and sunspot activity: Years 1939–1993

The correlation between the size of polar coronal holes and sunspot numbers has been investigated for the last five solar cycles. The area of polar coronal holes over the period from 1939 to 1993 was derived from ground-based observations of the green coronal line at 530.3 nm (Fe xiv). Correlation analysis revealed that there is no general shift in the maxima of the curves of these two solar indices. The analysis showed the same shift in months in cycles 21 and 22 when the best correlation between the indices is reached; the time shift found in cycle 20 is slightly different from that in cycle 18; in cycle 19, there is found a shift with a value between the values in cycles 18, 20 and 21, 22. The time between succesive peaks of smoothed polar hole size and smoothed sunspot number is different in each cycle.     

Empirical estimate of p-mode frequency shift for solar cycle 23

We have obtained empirical relations between the p-mode frequency shift and the change in solar activity indices. The empirical relations are determined on the basis of frequencies obtained from BBSO and GONG stations during solar cycle 22. These relations are applied to estimate the change in mean frequency for the cycle 21 and 23. A remarkable agreement between the calculated and observed frequency shifts for the ascending phase of cycle 23, indicates that the derived relations are independent of epoch and do not change significantly from cycle to cycle. We propose that these relations could be used to estimate the shift in p-mode frequencies for past, present and future solar activity cycles, if the solar activity index is known. The maximum frequency shift for cycle 23 is estimated to be 265±90 nHz, corresponding to a predicted maximum smoothed sunspot number 118.1±35.     

Energy spectrum of the time profiles for weak solar soft X-ray bursts

We analyze the time profiles for weak solar soft X-ray bursts over the period 1995–1999 within the framework of the Interball-Tail Probe project. We have revealed a tendency for the peak of the energy spectrum of the time profiles for weak solar soft X-ray bursts to shift and their correlation with the thermal background.     

太阳质子耀斑和江淮大水的关系

１９９１年５月－６月期间的日面上强质子耀斑的连续爆发,被认为是１９９１年中国江淮特大洪水的重要天文因素。太阳质子耀斑触发和加剧了极涡的冷空气南下,低空西南急流的东移和西太平洋副热带高压的西伸,北抬过程。由于冷暖湿气流在江淮地区频繁地相遇,因此形成了多次暴雨和特大暴雨过程,从而诱发了１９９１年初夏中国江淮流域的特大洪水。     

Counts of Faint Blue Objects and the Anomalous Red Shift

The hypothesis that the spectra of young objects contain an anomalous red shift which decreases and disappears as they evolve is considered. The possibility of detecting features of this anomalous red shift in the spectra of postquasar objects is considered under the assumption that a large fraction of the quasars are local objects ejected from galactic nuclei. It is argued that the anomalous red shift has a significant effect on the form of the observed luminosity function for the local population of galaxies, depleting it at faint magnitudes. This approach is used to examine the problem of excess blue galaxies.