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Emission measures and heating mechanisms for stellar transition regions and coronae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

E. Böhm-Vitense
E. Böhm-Vitense*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy FM-20 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 U.S.A.

Abstract

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In order to determine the heating mechanisms for stellar transition regions and coronae we try to determine the damping lengths for the mechanical flux(es) responsible for the heating. For the lower part of the transition regions (30,000 < T≤100,000 K) the damping lengths are consistent with Shockwave damping. This appears to be also true for the upper part of the transition region in Procyon, while for the upper part of the solar transition region the damping length is much larger.

Information

Type
Stellar Coronae: Chromospheres of Cool Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 122: Circumstellar Matter , 1987 , pp. 359 - 360
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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