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Stellar prominences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Andrew Collier Cameron*
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews North Haugh, St Andrews, SCOTLAND KY16 9SS

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Stellar coronae, like the interstellar medium, are multi-phase media. Physical conditions in different parts of the corona allow material to exist in thermal equilibrium either as a tenuous X-ray plasma at temperatures of several million degrees, or in a denser form at temperatures low enough for hydrogen to recombine.

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Type
Session IV: “Outer Atmospheric Structure”
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Copyright © Kluwer 1996