Journal
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 497, Issue 1, Pages 273-285Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811133
Keywords
Sun: chromosphere; Sun: radio radiation; Sun: magnetic fields
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- NSF [AST-0540450]
- NASA [NNX06-AC18G, NNX08-AQ48G]
- Grant Council of the President of the Russian Federation [MK-1853.2007.2]
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Aims. We analyze observational data from 4 instruments to study the correlations between chromospheric emission, spanning the heights from the temperature minimum region to the middle chromosphere, and photospheric magnetic field. Methods. The data consist of radio images at 3.5 mm from the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Array (BIMA), UV images at 1600 angstrom from TRACE, CaII K-line filtergrams from BBSO, and MDI/SOHO longitudinal photospheric magnetograms. For the first time interferometric millimeter data with the highest currently available resolution are included in such an analysis. We determine various parameters of the intensity maps and correlate the intensities with each other and with the magnetic field. Results. The chromospheric diagnostics studied here show a pronounced similarity in their brightness structures and map out the underlying photospheric magnetic field relatively well. We find a power law to be a good representation of the relationship between photospheric magnetic field and emission from chromospheric diagnostics at all wavelengths. The dependence of chromospheric brightness on magnetic field is found to be different for network and internetwork regions.
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