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2009: 185:. In active regions the energy flux is about 10 erg cmsec, in the quiet Sun it is roughly 8 10 – 10 erg cmsec, and in coronal holes 5 10 - 8 10 erg cmsec, including the losses due to the solar wind. The required power is a small fraction of the total flux irradiated from the Sun, but this energy is enough to maintain the plasma at the temperature of million degrees, since the density is very low and the processes of radiation are different from those occurring in the photosphere, as it is shown in detail in the next section. 194: 123: 2915: 1981: 1995: 2037: 22: 2023: 217:. This radiation is not visible from the Earth because it is filtered by the atmosphere. Before the first rocket missions, the corona could be observed only in white light during the eclipses, while in the last fifty years the solar corona has been photographed in the EUV and X-rays by many satellites ( 334:
Some of these spectral lines can be forbidden on the Earth: in fact, collisions between particles can excite ions to metastable states; in a dense gas these ions immediately collide with other particles and so they de-excite with an allowed transition to an intermediate level, while in the corona it
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produced by metal ions which had been excited to a superior state by collisional processes. Many spectral lines are emitted by highly ionized atoms, like calcium and iron, which have lost most of their external electrons; these emission lines can be formed only at certain temperatures, and therefore
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In an optically-thin plasma the matter is not in thermodynamical equilibrium with the radiation, because collisions between particles and photons are very rare, and, as a matter of fact, the square root mean velocity of photons, electrons, protons and ions is not the same: we should define a
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is more probable that this ion remains in its metastable state, until it encounters a photon of the same frequency of the forbidden transition to the lower state. This photon induces the ion to emit with the same frequency by
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coming from the solar corona and transition region, where the plasma is optically-thin. On the contrary, in the chromosphere, where the temperature decreases from the photospheric value of 6000 K to the minimum of 4400 K, the
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has been modeled by many authors but with differences that depend strongly upon the assumed elemental abundances of the plasma, and of course on the atomic parameters and their estimation.
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Taking into account all the dominant radiation processes, including satellite lines from metastable states, the emission of an optically-thin plasma can be expressed more simply as
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In order to calculate the radiative flux from an optically-thin plasma in a convenient analytic form, Rosner et al. (1978) suggested a formula for P(T) (erg cm s) as follows:
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in lines of different ions of the same element, temperature and density can be measured with a good approximation: the different states of ionization are regulated by the
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is calculated as the energy emitted per unit volume and time when free electrons are captured from ions to recombine into neutral atoms (dielectronic capture).
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Gronenschild, E. H. B. M. & Mewe, R. (1978). "Calculated X-radiation from optically thin plasmas. III – Abundance effects on continuum emission".
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of velocities at the temperature of line formation (thermal line broadening), while it is often larger than predicted. The widening can be due to
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The emitting plasma is almost completely ionized and very light, its density is about 10 - 10 g/cm. Particles are so isolated that almost all the
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depends only on the temperature. All the radiation mechanisms require collision processes and basically depend on the squared density (
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Landini, M.; Monsignori Fossi, B. (1970). "Computation of solar X-ray emission in the region 1-100 Å for Te from 1 MK to 100 MK".
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Withbroe, George L. (1988). "The temperature structure, mass, and energy flow in the corona and inner solar wind".
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of the corona allows the determination of many physical parameters of the emitting plasma. Comparing the
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the radiative recombinations (free-bound radiation) due to the most abundant coronal ions;
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images taken by satellites (see the figure on the right taken by the XRT on board
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the coefficient of collisional de-excitation relative to the ion transition,
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The most important processes of radiation for an optically-thin plasma are
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temperature for each of these particle populations. The result is that the
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Therefore, the radiative flux can be expressed as the sum of three terms:
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the frequency of the emitted radiation corresponding to the energy jump
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the emission in resonance lines of ionized metals (bound-bound emission);
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is due to the electron scattering by protons and ions because of the
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is optically-thin. The Sun's atmosphere is not the unique example of
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is sufficient to determine the temperature of the emitting plasma.
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with the same radiative flux of the solar spectrum (yellow area).
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are given by the equilibrium between collisional excitation and
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is the transition probability of spontaneous emission.
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and the number of states at the inferior energy level
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The first term is due to the emission in every single
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gives a good measurement of the velocities along the
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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(1978). 1125:{\displaystyle L_{r}=n_{e}n_{H}P(T)~~{W~m^{-3}}} 142:and looks very complex and inhomogeneous in the 2419: 8: 915:{\displaystyle n_{l}n_{e}C_{lu}=n_{u}A_{ul}} 400:for very high temperatures above 10 MK, the 292:does not fit the spectral distribution of a 2250:The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2213:The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2493: 2426: 2412: 2404: 209:The electromagnetic waves coming from the 189:Processes of radiation of the solar corona 126:The Sun in the soft X-rays as seen by the 119:is about 1, and the radiation is thermal. 2340: 2300: 2232: 1947: 1928: 1902: 1895: 1879: 1858: 1828: 1809: 1760: 1739: 1709: 1690: 1656: 1640: 1619: 1589: 1570: 1518: 1497: 1467: 1448: 1408: 1392: 1371: 1341: 1322: 1273: 1252: 1217: 1188: 1175: 1169: 1140: 1112: 1101: 1077: 1067: 1054: 1048: 1005: 999: 969: 963: 936: 930: 903: 893: 877: 867: 857: 851: 824: 818: 797: 791: 747: 741: 710: 704: 680: 674: 651: 631: 607: 582: 576: 551: 545: 509: 490: 474: 458: 448: 435: 422: 416: 201:of the Sun. The grey area represents the 59:Learn how and when to remove this message 43:, without removing the technical details. 2277:"Dynamics of the quiescent solar corona" 362:but not in the perpendicular plane. The 2137: 169:irradiated from the corona changes in 2209:"Soft X-ray spectrum of a hot plasma" 2207:Raymond, J. C.; Smith, B. W. (1977). 150:). 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(1977). 1964: 1845: 1726: 1606: 1484: 1358: 1236: 1208:and is often used in 1199: 1159: 1127: 1028: 986: 950: 917: 835: 833:{\displaystyle n_{l}} 808: 806:{\displaystyle n_{u}} 770: 727: 694: 664: 662:{\displaystyle h\nu } 641: 617: 593: 591:{\displaystyle n_{k}} 562: 560:{\displaystyle n_{e}} 532: 404:(free-free emission). 366:should depend on the 302: 199:effective temperature 196: 154:are dominated by the 125: 2851:Standard solar model 2821:Solar radio emission 2639:List of solar cycles 2329:Astron Astrophys Rev 1857: 1738: 1618: 1496: 1370: 1251: 1234:{\displaystyle P(T)} 1216: 1168: 1157:{\displaystyle P(T)} 1139: 1047: 998: 962: 929: 850: 842:spontaneous emission 817: 790: 740: 734:plasma recombination 703: 673: 650: 639:{\displaystyle \nu } 630: 606: 575: 544: 415: 181:, through the steep 156:solar magnetic field 2671:Magnetic switchback 2293:1978ApJ...220..643R 2225:1977ApJS...35..419R 2194:1970MmSAI..41..467L 2159:1988ApJ...325..442W 1987:Solar System portal 372:pressure broadening 337:stimulated emission 294:blackbody radiation 203:blackbody radiation 2861:Sunlight radiation 2456:Internal structure 1959: 1840: 1721: 1601: 1479: 1353: 1231: 1194: 1154: 1122: 1023: 981: 945: 912: 830: 803: 765: 722: 689: 659: 636: 612: 588: 557: 527: 308: 207: 132: 90:from the external 83:, it is meant the 2927: 2926: 2891:Solar observatory 2806:Solar observation 2704:Termination shock 2620: 2619: 2572:Transition region 2128: 2127: 1920: 1917: 1914: 1890: 1801: 1798: 1795: 1792: 1789: 1786: 1783: 1780: 1777: 1774: 1771: 1682: 1679: 1676: 1673: 1670: 1667: 1651: 1562: 1559: 1556: 1553: 1550: 1547: 1544: 1541: 1538: 1535: 1532: 1529: 1440: 1437: 1434: 1431: 1428: 1425: 1422: 1419: 1416: 1403: 1314: 1311: 1308: 1305: 1302: 1299: 1296: 1293: 1290: 1287: 1284: 1107: 1100: 1097: 615:{\displaystyle h} 571:per unit volume, 567:is the number of 290:emission spectrum 183:transition region 104:transition region 69: 68: 61: 2962: 2917: 2916: 2506:Supergranulation 2494: 2428: 2421: 2414: 2405: 2400: 2377: 2375: 2369:. 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