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Dynamics and Heating of Chromospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Wolfgang Kalkofen*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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Heating and dynamics of the solar as well as stellar chromospheres are separate phenomena, judging by their spatial and temporal characteristics in the Sun. Simulations of chromospheric heating in late-type stars as well as simulations of the dynamics of the large-amplitude oscillations of internetwork calcium bright points in the solar atmosphere reproduce the main features of the respective phenomena. Differences between models and observations imply (1) that the Sun has a permanent, hot chromosphere and that its temperature structure cannot be obtained by averaging the time-dependent temperature profile of a model that describes only the oscillations, and (2) that the acoustic waves causing the dynamics and the heating propagate upward as spherical waves.

Type
Part 3: The Sun as a Prototype and Laboratory for Stellar Physics
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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