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可见光太阳连续统的光度趋势及其对中心-边缘轮廓的敏感性

Photometric Trends in the Visible Solar Continuum and Their Sensitivity to the Center-to-Limb Profile

Courtney Peck, Mark Rast

摘要:

太阳辐射在太阳自转时间尺度上的变化很大程度上取决于可见太阳盘面上的磁结构。太阳周期时间尺度的变化被认为是类似的,由于表面磁性的变化与活动。了解磁结构对太阳总辐照度和太阳光谱辐照度的贡献,需要评估它们作为磁盘位置的函数的贡献。由于只有相对测光是可能的,从地面,图像像素的对比度测量相对于中心到边缘的强度分布。使用九年的全磁盘红色和蓝色连续图像从精密太阳光度望远镜在莫纳罗亚太阳天文台(PSPT/MLSO),我们研究的灵敏度连续对比度测量的中心到边缘轮廓的定义。仅在用于确定它们的像素中允许的磁活动量不同的剖面产生相反符号的太阳周期长度连续体对比趋势;要么与Preminger等人(2011)的结果一致,显示与太阳周期负相关,要么不同意并显示与太阳周期正相关。在太阳活动周期的中心到边缘轮廓形状的变化是负责矛盾的对比度的结果,我们表明,最低的对比度结构,互联网和网络,是最敏感的。因此,全星盘、互联网和网络测光趋势的强度主要取决于宁静太阳定义中使用的磁通量密度。我们的结论是,低对比度的磁结构的贡献,在太阳连续输出的变化,特别是长期的变化,很难,如果不是不可能的话,确定不使用辐射成像。

英文摘要:

Solar irradiance variations over solar rotational time-scales are largely determined by the passage of magnetic structures across the visible solar disk. Variations on solar cycle time scales are thought to be similarly due to changes in surface magnetism with activity. Understanding the contribution of magnetic structures to total solar irradiance and solar spectral irradiance requires assessing their contributions as a function of disk position. Since only relative photometry is possible from the ground, the contrasts of image pixels are measured with respect to a center-to-limb intensity profile. Using nine years of full-disk red and blue continuum images from the Precision Solar Photometric Telescope at the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (PSPT/MLSO), we examine the sensitivity of continuum contrast measurements to the center-to-limb profile definition. Profiles which differ only by the amount of magnetic activity allowed in the pixels used to determine them yield oppositely signed solar cycle length continuum contrast trends; either agreeing with the result of Preminger et al. (2011) showing negative correlation with solar cycle or disagreeing and showing positive correlation with solar cycle. Changes in the center-to-limb profile shape over the solar cycle are responsible for the contradictory contrast results, and we demonstrate that the lowest contrast structures, internetwork and network, are most sensitive to these. Thus the strengths of the full-disk, internetwork, and network photometric trends depend critically on the magnetic flux density used in the quiet-sun definition. We conclude that the contributions of low contrast magnetic structures to variations in the solar continuum output, particularly to long-term variations, are difficult, if not impossible, to determine without the use of radiometric imaging.

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