期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 795, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/795/2/111
关键词
Sun: atmosphere; Sun: corona; techniques: spectroscopic; waves
资金
- NASA Solar Heliospheric Physics program grant [NNX09AB25G]
- NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences SHINE program grant [AGS-1060194]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1060194] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We have measured the energy and dissipation of Alfvenic waves in the quiet Sun. Amagnetic field model was used to infer the location and orientation of the magnetic field lines along which the waves are expected to travel. The waves were measured using spectral lines to infer the wave amplitude. The waves cause a non-thermal broadening of the spectral lines, which can be expressed as a non-thermal velocity v(nt). By combining the spectroscopic measurements with this magnetic field model, we were able to trace the variation of vnt along the magnetic field. At each footpoint of the quiet-Sun loops, we find that waves inject an energy flux in the range of 1.3-5.5 x 10(5) erg cm(-2) s(-1). At the minimum of this range, this amounts to more than 80% of the energy needed to heat the quiet Sun. We also find that these waves are dissipated over a region centered on the top of the loops. The position along the loop where the damping begins is strongly correlated with the length of the loop, implying that the damping mechanism depends on the global loop properties rather than on local collisional dissipation.
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