Contribution à l'étude du spectre solaire de l'hydrogène

R'esumé Les raies et le rayonnement continu de l'hydrogène sont calculés, dans le cas solaire, en tenant compte des écarts à l'équilibre thermodynamique local.La comparaison des résultats, interprétés par la théorie de la formation des raies de Jefferies et Thomas, avec les observations donne des renseignements sur le modèle de l'atmosphère solaire.L'énergie émise par Ly dépend très fortement de la densité électronique. Seuls les modèles á palier de température dans la haute chromosphère donnent un profil de Ly à dépression centrale.La raie H, qui est contrôlée essentiellement pour les photoionisations dépend surtout du modèle de photosphère; toutefois les modèles de chromosphère à fortes température et densité électroniques ont une influence sur le profil de H.

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Summary The continuous and line spectrum of hydrogen emitted by the sun is computed, taking deviations of local thermal equilibrium into account. The theory of line formation as given by Jefferies and Thomas has been applied to the computations; a comparison of these results with the observations gives information on the solar atmospheric model.The energy emitted by Lyman has been computed for a two- and three-level atom: it appears to increase slightly with the number of levels. The energies, computed with the HAO model and the model of Coates, are larger than the observed values. The core of the Lyman profile is determined by collisions; the peaks are formed at a height where the electron temperature is about 20 000 °K; the energy depends very strongly on the electron density of the model.It is shown that the profile of Lyman only shows a central self reversal if the model of the high chromosphere has a temperature plateau.An interpretation of the observed distance of the peaks of the Lyman and Lyman line profiles is possible; it can also be shown why the distance of the Lyman peaks to the line centre is always of the order of 0.2 Å.The residual central intensity of H increases slightly with the number of atomic levels; the value computed with a five level atom, with the HAO chromospheric model, and the Utrecht photospheric model (1964) does not differ very much from the observed value: it is slightly smaller than the observed value and the computed profile is narrower than the observed profile.In the case of the HAO model the source function of H is dominated by the photo-ionization terms; nevertheless, the collision terms are not much smaller than the photo-ionization terms; the residual central intensity of H computed with a chromospheric model similar to the interspicular model of Athay and Thomas but assuming a higher electron temperature and density is larger than the observed value.