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The heating of the temperature minimum region in solar flares — A reassessment

✍ Scribed by A. Gordon Emslie; Marcos E. Machado

Publisher
Springer
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
320 KB
Volume
64
Category
Article
ISSN
0038-0938

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✦ Synopsis

As a sequel to the work by Machado et al. (1978), we discuss and evaluate the suggestions made by these authors on how to possibly reconcile the observed temperature enhancements at temperatureminimum levels in solar flares with some form of theoretical heating mechanism. After establishing the H-LTE assumption used by Machado et al., we then consider EUV irradiation, and joule heating by steady currents, as heating mechanisms. We find that, unless there are strong inhomogeneities associated with either mechanism, neither can reasonably be reconciled with observations. It is concluded that detailed, high resolution (both spatial and temporal) measurements are necessary to further our understanding of the flare process at temperature-minimum levels.

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