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V. M. Grigorjev 《Solar physics》1969,6(1):67-71
Observations of longitudinal and transversal fields and of radial velocities in the magnetic ‘knots’ close to a sunspot were made with the help of Sayan Observatory magnetograph with spatial resolution 1″.2 x 1″.8. The analysis led to following conclusions:
- The magnetic field in the knots is mainly vertical. The mean inclination of the magnetic-field vector to the vertical direction is equal to 26°.
- The phenomenon of darkening is connected with essentially vertical fields and brightening in the faculae with the horizontal fields on the sun.
- An inverse relation between the value of darkening and the inclination of the field vector to the vertical direction and a direct relation on the longitudinal magnetic-field strength exist for the magnetic knots.
- The magnetic knots in the active region are located in the Hα flocculi near the line where the radial velocity is changing sign in the photosphere.
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Spectroheliograms, obtained in certain Fraunhofer lines with the 82-cm solar image at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, show a bright photospheric network having the following properties:
- It resembles, but does not coincide with, the chromospheric network, the structure of the photospheric network being finer and more delicate than the relatively coarse structure of the chromospheric network.
- It is exactly cospatial with the network of non-sunspot photospheric magnetic fields.
- Its visibility in a given photospheric Fraunhofer line is primarily dependent on the states of ionization and excitation from which the line is formed and secondarily dependent on the Zeemansensitivity of the line-being most visible in low-excitation lines of neutral atoms and least visible in high-excitation lines of singly ionized atoms.
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N. R. Sheeley Jr. 《Solar physics》1969,9(2):347-357
A time-lapse sequence of spectroheliograms in the bandhead of CN at λ3883 reveals the following behavior of the photospheric network with time:
- There is a steady flow of bright ‘points’ (? 1000 km in diameter) laterally outward from sunspots at speeds on the order of 1 km·sec?1. After traveling about 10 000 km from a sunspot they either conglomerate to form fragments of the photospheric network or disappear.
- Spatial changes in the network pattern seem to take place by means of the shifting of network fragments laterally on the solar surface. Although most small-scale details are recognizable after 5–10 minutes, within 30 minutes nearly all the details have changed completely. In contrast to this, the large-scale network pattern seems relatively unchanged after 2 1/2 hours.
- Occasionally ‘new’ network, not resulting from the lateral motion of bright features from either previously existing network or sunspots, appears on the solar surface. This process consists of the formation in approximately 10 minutes of bright points and a darker-than-average feature between them. The dark feature disappears in another 5–10 minutes and the bright points separate at a relative speed of a few km·sec?1. If the event is of a sufficiently large magnitude, a sunspot will appear.
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David M. Rust 《Solar physics》1972,25(1):141-157
An observational study of maps of the longitudinal component of the photospheric fields in flaring active regions leads to the following conclusions:
- The broad-wing Hα kernels characteristic of the impulsive phase of flares occur within 10″ of neutral lines encircling features of isolated magnetic polarity (‘satellite sunspots’).
- Photospheric field changes intimately associated with several importance 1 flares and one importance 2B flare are confined to satellite sunspots, which are small (10″ diam). They often correspond to spot pores in white-light photographs.
- The field at these features appears to strengthen in the half hour just before the flares. During the flares the growth is reversed, the field drops and then recovers to its previous level.
- The magnetic flux through flare-associated features changes by about 4 × 1019 Mx in a day. The features are the same as the ‘Structures Magnétiques Evolutives’ of Martres et al. (1968a).
- An upper limit of 1021 Mx is set for the total flux change through McMath Regions 10381 and 10385 as the result of the 2B flare of 24 October, 1969.
- Large spots in the regions investigated did not evince flux changes or large proper motions at flare time.
- The results are taken to imply that the initial instability of a flare occurs at a neutral point, but the magnetic energy lost cannot yet be related to the total energy of the subsequent flare.
- No unusual velocities are observed in the photosphere at flare time.
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Transverse and longitudinal magnetic field scans together with K232 spectroheliograms that cover the early phases of active region formation reveal the following:
- The new active region forms near the periphery of an old magnetic region. There is evidence that the new region forms an interrelated system with the old magnetic structures on the sun.
- Noticeable changes in the background magnetic field are seen nearly 3 days prior to the appearance of the sunspot. Magnetic hills of the longitudinal component appear along with bright localized K232 emission. Subsequently the K232 emission spreads along the boundary of one or two adjacent supergranules and at the time of sunspot formation occupies the whole supergranular cell.
- Transverse fields with strengths of 100–150 gauss form closed regions in the area of the longitudinal component hills, in the very early phases of the region. These fields stretch and link up the two areas later, at which time the peak transverse fields with values near 250 gauss coincide with the zero line of the longitudinal field. When subsequently the spots appear in the new region, the transverse fields are located about the hills of the longitudinal field. The total field vectors just prior to sunspot formation are pressed to the surface. These are inclined about 45° to the surface after the spot appears. The findings indicate that the magnetic field of a new region emerges from the sub-photospheric layers. It is highly likely that the dynamics of a supergranule influences only the emergence of the magnetic field into the upper layers of the solar atmosphere.
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N. M. Firstova 《Solar physics》1984,90(2):269-279
Using the Baranger-Mozer method, we explore the possibility of diagnosing the flare plasma of forbidden Hei lines, that permits the determination of the plasma oscillation frequency and noise level. Examination of the Hei lines observed in solar flare has led us to conclude that:
- the appearance of satellites of forbidden components in the flares spectrum, due to turbulent electric fields, is the most probable for Hei 3819.606 Å lines;
- the Baranger-Mozer method is more sensitive to the high-frequency component of turbulent fields than to the low-frequency ones;
- the upper limit of the turbulent oscillation level in flares is evaluated.
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As a first step in constructing three-dimensional decaying sunspot models we select the relevant observational data. From these we conclude:
- sunspots, except the smallest, obey a radial and evolutionary similarity;
- sunspots may be considered as isolated, fairly well defined flux tubes, wrapped in thin current sheets;
- a substantial number among stable regular spots show a phase of slowest decay whose rate is independent of the spot's area.
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Spectroheliograms with high spatial resolution are presented to illustrate the decomposition of the solar velocity field into its oscillatory and slowly-varying components. An analysis of data obtained in the lines Fei λ 5434 and Feii λ 4924 yield essentially the same principal results:
- Spectroheliograms of the oscillatory component have a mottled appearance of rising and falling elements ranging from 2000 km to 3000 km in size. These elements oscillate vertically with a period in the range 275–300 s and an amplitude of 0.5 km/s. Although most oscillations last two cycles some have been observed for as many as four cycles.
- Spectroheliograms of the slowly-varying component show a velocity granulation pattern whose spatial properties correspond closely to those of the photospheric granulation visible on direct photographs of the Sun. The velocity granules are approximately 1000 km in diameter and rise relative to their intergranular spaces with speeds that are typically 0.6 km/s, but which may occasionally be as large as 0.9 km/s. Most velocity granules seem to live for at least 10 min with many lasting 10–30 min, and a few of the biggest and fastest moving lasting 30 min to 1 hr.
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Brigitte Schmieder 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2006,27(2-3):139-149
The majority of flare activity arises in active regions which contain sunspots, while Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) activity can also originate from decaying active regions and even so-called quiet solar regions which contain a filament. Two classes of CME, namely flare-related CME events and CMEs associated with filament eruption are well reflected in the evolution of active regions. The presence of significant magnetic stresses in the source region is a necessary condition for CME. In young active regions magnetic stresses are increased mainly by twisted magnetic flux emergence and the resulting magnetic footpoint motions. In old, decayed active regions twist can be redistributed through cancellation events. All the CMEs are, nevertheless, caused by loss of equilibrium of the magnetic structure. With observational examples we show that the association of CME, flare and filament eruption depends on the characteristics of the source regions: ?the strength of the magnetic field, the amount of possible free energy storage, ?the small- and large-scale magnetic topology of the source region as well as its evolution (new flux emergence, photospheric motions, cancelling flux), and ?the mass loading of the configuration (effect of gravity). These examples are discussed in the framework of theoretical models. 相似文献
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We analyze particle acceleration processes in large solar flares, using observations of the August, 1972, series of large events. The energetic particle populations are estimated from the hard X-ray and γ-ray emission, and from direct interplanetary particle observations. The collisional energy losses of these particles are computed as a function of height, assuming that the particles are accelerated high in the solar atmosphere and then precipitate down into denser layers. We compare the computed energy input with the flare energy output in radiation, heating, and mass ejection, and find for large proton event flares that:
- The ~10–102 keV electrons accelerated during the flash phase constitute the bulk of the total flare energy.
- The flare can be divided into two regions depending on whether the electron energy input goes into radiation or explosive heating. The computed energy input to the radiative quasi-equilibrium region agrees with the observed flare energy output in optical, UV, and EUV radiation.
- The electron energy input to the explosive heating region can produce evaporation of the upper chromosphere needed to form the soft X-ray flare plasma.
- Very intense energetic electron fluxes can provide the energy and mass for interplanetary shock wave by heating the atmospheric gas to energies sufficient to escape the solar gravitational and magnetic fields. The threshold for shock formation appears to be ~1031 ergs total energy in >20 keV electrons, and all of the shock energy can be supplied by electrons if their spectrum extends down to 5–10 keV.
- High energy protons are accelerated later than the 10–102 keV electrons and most of them escape to the interplanetary medium. The energetic protons are not a significant contributor to the energization of flare phenomena. The observations are consistent with shock-wave acceleration of the protons and other nuclei, and also of electrons to relativistic energies.
- The flare white-light continuum emission is consistent with a model of free-bound transitions in a plasma with strong non-thermal ionization produced in the lower solar chromosphere by energetic electrons. The white-light continuum is inconsistent with models of photospheric heating by the energetic particles. A threshold energy of ~5×1030 ergs in >20 keV electrons is required for detectable white-light emission.
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In this paper, we consider the implications of the observed inverse correlation between solar wind speed at Earth and the expansion rate of the Sun-Earth flux tube as it passes through the corona. We find that the coronal expansion rate depends critically on the large-scale photospheric field distribution around the footpoint of the flux tube, with the smallest expansions occurring in tubes that are rooted near a local minimum in the field. This suggests that the fastest wind streams originate from regions where large coronal holes are about to break apart and from the facing edges of adjacent like-polarity holes, whose field lines converge as they transit the corona. These ideas lead to the following predictions:
- Weak holes and fragmentary holes can be sources of very fast wind.
- Fast wind with steep latitudinal gradients may be generated where the field lines from the polar hole and a lower-latitude hole of like polarity converge to form a mid-latitude ‘apex’.
- The fastest polar wind should occur shortly after sunspot maximum, when trailing-polarity flux converges onto the poles and begins to establish the new polar fields.
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Successful subtraction of instrumental background variations has permitted spectral analyses of two-dimensional measurement arrays of granulation brightness fluctuations at the center of the disk, arrays obtained from Stratoscope I, 1959B-flight, high-resolution frames B1551 and B3241.
- RMS's, uncorrected for instrumental blurring, are 0.0850 of mean intensity for B1551 and 0.0736 for B3241, somewhat higher than other determinations. These between-frame and between-investigation differences probably result from a combination of calibration errors, frame resolution differences, and, most likely, granulation pattern differences.
- Significant variations over each array of mean intensities and RMS's, determined for sub-arrays with dimensions in the 2500–10000 km range, indicate spatial brightness and RMS variations larger than the ‘scale’ of the granulation pattern, supporting a turbulent interpretation of photospheric convection.
- One-dimensional power-spectra shapes provide objective and discriminating criteria for determining granulation pattern differences and, possibly, frame resolution.
- Two-dimensional power spectra show small, essentially random deviations from axial symmetry which lie almost entirely within the 50% confidence limits.
- Spectral densities and fluctuation power spectra, computed from the two-dimensional power spectra and corrected for instrumental blurring, noise, and blemishes, have a useable radial wavenumber range nearly double that of earlier Stratoscope I analyses.
- Corrected RMS's obtained from the corrected fluctuation power spectra, 0.145 ± 0.046 for B1551 and 0.136 ± 0.048 for B3241, depend critically on the accuracy of the correction.
- The spectra's wavenumber range includes the granulation-fluctuation-producing domain but not the Kolmogoroff domain of turbulence spectra.
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R. K. Zhigalkin G. V. Rudenko N. N. Stepanian V. G. Fainshtein N. I. Shtertser 《Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory》2008,104(1):67-78
Based on the developed method of jointly using data on the magnetic fields and brightness of filaments and coronal holes (CHs) at various heights in the solar atmosphere as well as on the velocities in the photosphere, we have obtained the following results: The upward motion of matter is typical of filament channels in the form of bright stripes that often surround the filaments when observed in the HeI 1083 nm line. The filament channels observed simultaneously in Hα and HeI 1083 nm differ in size, emission characteristics, and other parameters. We conclude that by simultaneously investigating the filament channels in two spectral ranges, we can make progress in understanding the physics of their formation and evolution. Most of the filaments observed in the HeI 1083 nm line consist of dark knots with different velocity distributions in them. A possible interpretation of these knots is offered. The height of the small-scale magnetic field distribution near the individual dark knots of filaments in the solar atmosphere varies between 3000 and 20000 km. The zero surface separating the large-scale magnetic field structures in the corona and calculated in the potential approximation changes the inclination to the solar surface with height and is displaced in one or two days. The observed formation of a filament in a CH was accompanied by a significant magnetic field variation in the CH region at heights from 0 to 30000 km up to the change of the predominant field sign over the entire CH area. We assume that this occurs at the stage of CH disappearance. 相似文献
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Doppler spectroheliograms of sunspots and their surroundings have been obtained with a spatial resolution approaching one second of arc and a time resolution of 20 s per frame. Observations of 5 sunspots, located 18°, 45°, 56°, 60° and 72° from the disk center respectively, showed considerable long-lived fine structure and, in particular, indicated the following:
- The Evershed outflow terminated in spoke-like structures that constitute the ragged outer boundary of the penumbra. Some of these spokes extended more than 8000 km beyond the average outer boundary.
- Although there was considerable long-lived fine structure of both Doppler polarities in the extra-penumbral photosphere, the spatially-averaged horizontal flow was outward for roughly 10000 km beyond the outer boundary of the penumbra. This extra-penumbral velocity field was distinct from the Evershed flow, and, in particular, did not represent its extension beyond the end of the penumbral spokes.
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Joseph V. Hollweg 《Solar physics》1978,56(2):305-333
We examine the propagation of Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere. The principal theoretical virtues of this work are: (i) The full wave equation is solved without recourse to the small-wavelength eikonal approximation (ii) The background solar atmosphere is realistic, consisting of an HSRA/VAL representation of the photosphere and chromosphere, a 200 km thick transition region, a model for the upper transition region below a coronal hole (provided by R. Munro), and the Munro-Jackson model of a polar coronal hole. The principal results are:
- If the wave source is taken to be near the top of the convection zone, where n H = 5.2 × 1016 cm?3, and if B ⊙ = 10.5 G, then the wave Poynting flux exhibits a series of strong resonant peaks at periods downwards from 1.6 hr. The resonant frequencies are in the ratios of the zeroes of J 0, but depend on B ⊙, and on the density and scale height at the wave source. The longest period peaks may be the most important, because they are nearest to the supergranular periods and to the observed periods near 1 AU, and because they are the broadest in frequency.
- The Poynting flux in the resonant peaks can be large enough, i.e. P ⊙ ≈ 104–105 erg cm?2s?1, to strongly affect the solar wind.
- ¦δv¦ and ¦δB¦ also display resonant peaks.
- In the chromosphere and low corona, ¦δv ≈ 7–25 kms?1 and ¦δB¦ ≈0.3–1.0 G if P ⊙≈104-105 erg cm?2s?1.
- The dependences of ¦δv¦ and ¦δB¦ on height are reduced by finite wavelength effects, except near the wave source where they are enhanced.
- Near the base, ¦δB¦ ≈ 350–1200 G if P ⊙ ~- 104–105. This means that nonlinear effects may be important, and that some density and vertical velocity fluctuations may be associated with the Alfvén waves.
- Below the low corona most wave energy is kinetic, except near the base where it becomes mostly magnetic at the resonances.
- ?0 < δv 2 > v A or < δB 2 > v A/4π are not good estimators of the energy flux.
- The Alfvén wave pressure tensor will be important in the transition region only if the magnetic field diverges rapidly. But the Alfvén wave pressure can be important in the coronal hole.
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Information about space distribution is collected for selected classes of evolving stars in the globular cluster M13. After a rigorous elimination of field stars, three samples are examined, corresponding to the red giant stage (G), the blue (B) and the yellow (YG) parts of the horizontal branch. It is shown that results are easy to understand in terms of:
- A substantial mass loss in the H-shell burning stage;
- Evolution along the horizontal branch from the blue side to the red one;
- A mixing in the observed giant branch of two populations with sensible differences in masses.
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The properties of small (< 2″) moving magnetic features near certain sunspots are studied with several time series of longitudinal magnetograms and Hα filtergrams. We find that the moving magnetic features:
- Are associated only with decaying sunspots surrounded entirely or in part by a zone without a permanent vertical magnetic field.
- Appear first at or slightly beyond the outer edge of the parent sunspot regardless of the presence or absence of a penumbra.
- Move approximately radially outward from sunspots at about 1 km s?1 until they vanish or reach the network.
- Appear with both magnetic polarities from sunspots of single polarities but appear with a net flux of the same sign as the parent sunspot.
- Transport net flux away from the parent sunspots at the same rates as the flux decay of the sunspots.
- Tend to appear in opposite polarity pairs.
- Appear to carry a total flux away from sunspots several times larger than the total flux of the sunspots.
- Produce only a very faint emmission in the core of Hα.
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R. Giovanelli 《Solar physics》1975,44(2):299-314
Observations are reported of two, possibly three, distinct wave systems in the Hα chromosphere.
- Velocity films show waves propagating predominantly outwards along mottles and fibrils from as close as 2000 km to the network axis at velocities of the order of 70 km s-1. The line-of-sight component of the velocity amplitude is estimated to be typically 5 km s-1. The velocities are accompanied by propagating intensity fluctuations. The system is interpreted as one of basically Alfvén waves. Similar waves are observed propagating predominantly outwards along superpenumbral fibrils radiating from a small sunspot.
- The velocities in the chromospheric granulation undergo fluctuations of an oscillatory character but without any observable horizontal propagation. The intensities show a close correlation with the velocities, maximum intensity occurring about T/4 after maximum downward velocity. The period is variable across the surface (2.5 min upwards). The intensity-velocity correlation is characteristic of a standing compressional wave.
- Intensity cinefilms at Hα line centre show in places a horizontal drift of the chromospheric granulation pattern at about 12 km s-1 without any accompanying vertical velocity fluctuations. It is not known whether this is due to a gas stream at sonic velocities, or to a horizontally propagating sound wave.
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Markus J. Aschwanden 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2008,29(1-2):3-16
Celebrating the diamond jubilee of the Physics Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, India, we look back over the last six decades in solar physics and contemplate on the ten outstanding problems (or research foci) in solar physics:
- The solar neutrino problem
- Structure of the solar interior (helioseismology)
- The solar magnetic field (dynamo, solar cycle, corona)
- Hydrodynamics of coronal loops
- MHD oscillations and waves (coronal seismology)
- The coronal heating problem
- Self-organized criticality (from nanoflares to giant flares)
- Magnetic reconnection processes
- Particle acceleration processes
- Coronal mass ejections and coronal dimming
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Preliminary results are presented of observations of the solar Na D lines obtained with high space and time resolution (2.4″ × 2.4″), (6 s). The following conclusions may be drawn.
- The line profiles vary strongly with space and time implying that time averaging over a long period and large area will not produce the ‘true’ profile.
- The centre-limb increase in apparent Doppler width in the D lines is intrinsic. It is not due to space or time averaging.
- The amplitude of the 300-s oscillation may range up to 1.5 km/s in the region of formation of the D lines. Large line asymmetries are associated with this motion. Observations which do not resolve this motion can not be considered adequate.
- The variation of the D line profile caused by the 300-s oscillation may be described as follows: (a) The core is raised and lowered without change of shape, (b) The wings broaden as the central intensity rises and narrow as it falls. These variations are qualitatively explained by the scanning of the line formation region through the solar atmosphere.
- Doppler width values derived from pairs of D line profiles are strongly correlated with the motion of the element observed. Hotter elements move upward, cooler downward.
- Indications of running waves have been found in the time variation of the core line bisectors.