期刊
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 594, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628965
关键词
Sun: transition region; Sun: UV radiation; techniques: spectroscopic; atomic data
资金
- Isaac Newton Studentship
- Cambridge Trust
- IRIS team at Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics
- RS Newton Alumni Programme
- STFC
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [P209/12/1652]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Lockheed-Martin [8100002705]
- Norwegian Space Center (NSC, Norway) through an ESA PRODEX contract
- STFC [ST/L000636/1, ST/J00054X/1, PP/E004857/2, ST/P000843/1, PP/E001254/1, ST/M001083/1, ST/J000892/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E001254/1, ST/M001083/1, ST/J00054X/1, ST/L000636/1, ST/P000843/1, ST/J000892/1, PP/E004857/2] Funding Source: researchfish
The intensity of the O IV 2s(2) 2p P-2-2s2p(2) P-4 and S IV 3 s(2) 3p P-2-3s 3p(2) (4) P intercombination lines around 1400 angstrom observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) provide a useful tool to diagnose the electron number density (N-e) in the solar transition region plasma. We measure the electron number density in a variety of solar features observed by IRIS, including an active region (AR) loop, plage and brightening, and the ribbon of the 22-June-2015 M 6.5 class flare. By using the emissivity ratios of O IV and S IVv lines, we find that our observations are consistent with the emitting plasma being near isothermal (logT[K] approximate to 5) and iso-density (N-e approximate to 10(10.6) cm(-3)) in the AR loop. Moreover, high electron number densities (N-e approximate to 10(13) cm(-3)) are obtained during the impulsive phase of the flare by using the S IV line ratio. We note that the S IV lines provide a higher range of density sensitivity than the O IV lines. Finally, we investigate the effects of high densities (N-e greater than or similar to 10(11) cm(-3)) on the ionization balance. In particular, the fractional ion abundances are found to be shifted towards lower temperatures for high densities compared to the low density case. We also explored the effects of a non-Maxwellian electron distribution on our diagnostic method.
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