Mechanical heating in the transition region.
Abstract
Attention is focused on the energy balance in the transition region and the role that mechanical heating plays in determining the temperature density structure of this region in a stellar atmosphere. Because of its role as the interface layer through which mass and energy flow between the chromospheres and corona, direct deposition of mechanical energy is a relatively unimportant factor in the overall energy balance in the transition region, except in the uppermost layers where the temperature approaches coronal values.
- Publication:
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NASA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- July 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981NASSP.450..321W
- Keywords:
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- Chromosphere;
- Energy Transfer;
- Hydrodynamics;
- Mass Transfer;
- Solar Corona;
- Stellar Atmospheres;
- Astrophysics;
- Solar Physics;
- Astrophysics;
- Solar Transition Region:Heating;
- Stellar Atmospheres:Heating