Observational constraints on heating processes.
Abstract
A brief account is given of how spectroscopic measurements of emission line fluxes and widths relate to the plasma parameters relevant to wave heating processes, e.g. the magnetic field strength and its fluctuation, the damping length and plasma β. The need for further measurements of line profiles and of flux and profile periodicities in the inner corona is stressed and it is shown how systematic studies across coronal holes might elucidate the solar coronal heating mechanism.
- Publication:
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ESA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- November 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984ESASP.220..133J
- Keywords:
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- Solar Corona:Heating;
- Stellar Coronae:Heating;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Optical Emission Spectroscopy;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Heating;
- Beta Factor;
- Magnetic Flux;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Wave Propagation;
- Solar Physics