It has been suggested that pressure shifts are the sole cause for the systematic blue shift of solar fraunhofer lines (Hart, 1974). To check this we evaluate the significance of pressure shifts for Fe I lines. The observed wavelength shifts of a large number of lines are compared with the shifts cal
Some comments on the limb shift of solar lines
β Scribed by Jacques M. Beckers; George Driver Nelson
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 943 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-0938
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β¦ Synopsis
The well-known correlation between granulation intensity and velocity fluctuations causes a shift of the average line position called the 'convective blue shift'. It is argued that this convective blue shift is most likely reponsible for the limb effect of solar Fraunhofer lines. To explain the center-to-limb variation of this limb effect it is essential that both horizontal and vertical motions in the granulation are considered. The effects of a variation in the granulation properties across the Sun on large scale velocity pattern observations are discussed. Abnormal granulation patterns observed inactive regions and at the boundaries of supergranules could be responsible for part or all of the 'd0wnflow' observed there.
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