Solar atmospheric heating
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J. H. Piddington
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Article
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1973
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Springer
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English
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The solar atmosphere is heated by a flux of mechanical waves propagating in one or more of the modes : acoustic, Alfv6n and gravitational. The acoustic theory is compared with observational data and found inadequate. First, the theory is based quantitatively on the B~hm-Vitense convection zone mode