谱线轮廓的不对称性,即次级分量,对于理解日冕洞(CH)、宁静区(QS)和亮点(BPs)的能量释放至关重要。我们利用界面区域成像光谱仪(IRIS)记录的过渡区(TR)谱线Si IV 1393.75 Å,以及太阳动力学观测站(SDO)上搭载的大气成像组件(AIA)和日震与磁成像仪(HMI)的共空间-时间数据,研究了2015年4月26日、2014年7月24日和2014年7月26日三个时间序列。大多数不对称轮廓出现在网络结构的复杂磁场区域。不对称轮廓分别用单高斯和双高斯模型进行拟合。在QS/CH中,次级分量的多普勒速度平均值几乎为零(但标准差显著),这可能表明触发次级高斯分量的物理过程起源于Si IV的形成高度。而在BPs中,次级高斯分量的平均多普勒速度约为+4.0 km/s(红移)。在所有三个区域中,次级分量的非热速度略高于单高斯分量。统计研究显示,在QS/CH中蓝移次级分量占主导。然而,BPs中的次级高斯分量表现为红移,即BPs的红移行为可以解释为由于重联点位于Si IV谱线形成高度之上。三个区域中次级分量的峰值强度可能遵循幂律分布,这是小尺度耀斑样触发机制的特征。
英文摘要:
The asymmetry of line profiles, i.e., the secondary component, is crucial to understanding the energy release of coronal holes (CH), quiet sun (QS), and bright points (BPs). We investigate the asymmetry of Si IV 1393.75 Å of the transition-region (TR) line recorded by Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) and co-spatial-temporal Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) data onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) for three time series on 26 April 2015, 24 July 2014, 26 July 2014. Most asymmetric profiles are in the complex magnetic field regions of the networks. The asymmetric profiles are fitted with both single and double Gaussian models. The mean value of Doppler velocity of the second component is almost zero (with a significant standard deviation) in QS/CH, which may indicate that the physical process to trigger the secondary Gaussian originates at the formation height of Si IV. While the mean Doppler velocity from secondary Gaussian in BPs is around +4.0 km/s (redshifted). The non-thermal velocities of the secondary Gaussian in all three regions are slightly higher than the single Gaussian. The statistical investigation leads to the prevalence of blueshifted secondary components in QS/CH. However, secondary Gaussian in the BPs redshifted, i.e., the BPs redshift behavior could be interpreted due to the site of reconnection located above the formation height of the Si IV line. The peak intensity of the second component for all three regions is likely to follow a power law that is a signature of the small-scale flaring-like trigger mechanism.
Observation of High-speed Outflow on Plume-like Structures of the Quiet Sun and Coronal Holes with SDO/AIA
太阳动力学天文台(SDO)上的大气成像组件(AIA)的观测结果显示,在平静的太阳大气层的磁化区域中,存在着无处不在的间歇性外流(喷流),其平均速率约为120 km s-1,温度通常超过100万度。这些外流并不局限于在极冕洞中可见的羽流,也存在于源自赤道冕洞和宁静太阳区域的羽流状结构中。在整个大气层的“羽流间”区域也可以看到外流。此外,在羽流和羽流间区域的这些流动追踪出的结构不断表现出横向(Alfvenic)运动。我们的发现表明,高速外流主要来自安静的太阳和日冕洞的磁网络,并且所观察到的羽流被其中包含的密度更大的等离子体所突出。这些外流可能是一个有效的手段,提供加热的质量进入日冕,并作为一个重要的来源,质量供应的太阳风。我们证明,安静的太阳羽流有时会显着污染相邻冕洞的光谱观测-极大地影响观测到的多普勒频移,从而可能影响这些地区的重大调查。
Using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and rescaled range (R/S) analysis, we investigate the scaling properties of EUV intensity fluctuations of low-latitude coronal holes (CHs) and neighboring quiet-Sun (QS) regions in signals obtained with the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA) instrument. Contemporaneous line-of-sight SDO/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetic fields provide a context for the physical environment. We find that the intensity fluctuations in the time series of EUV images present at each spatial point a scaling symmetry over the rang…
Coronal holes (CHs) are darker than quiet Sun (QS) when observed in coronal channels. This study aims to understand the similarities and differences between CHs and QS in the transition region using the \ion{Si}{4}~1394~Å line recorded by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) by considering the distribution of magnetic field measured by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We find that \ion{Si}{4} intensities obtained in CHs are lower than those obtained in QS for regions with identical magnetic flux densities. Moreover, the differ…
Magnetic reconnection in the quiet Sun is a phenomenon that is consistently observed, and it has recently become feasible to simulate via 3D numerical models of realistically stratified and convection-driven reconnection. We aim to illustrate ways by which quiet Sun fields may contribute to solar atmospheric heating via magnetic reconnection that is driven by convective motion. We also aim to compare our stratified model to earlier idealized coronal models in terms of reconnection drivers and topological conditions. We analyzed a simulation of the quiet Sun in which a complex coronal magnetic …
Coronal jets are transient narrow features in the solar corona that originate from all regions of the solar disk: active regions, quiet sun, and coronal holes. Recent studies indicate that at least some coronal jets in quiet regions and coronal holes are driven by the eruption of a minifilament following flux cancellation at a magnetic neutral line. We have tested the veracity of that view by examining 60 random jets in quiet regions and coronal holes using multithermal (304 A, 171 A, 193 A, and 211 A) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/Atmospheric Imagi…
Solar flares (SFs) are sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface which is associated with a large energy release. Flares with burst of Xray emission are normally followed by a mass ejection of electrons and ions from the solar atmosphere called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). There is an evidence that solar magnetic field can change its configuration through reconnection and release energy, accelerating solar plasma causing SFs and CMEs. This study examines the SFs and CMEs data from SOHO and GOES satellites during the very low solar activity year of 2009 and moderately high solar activi…
Type II radio bursts are observed in the Sun in association with many coronal mass ejections (CME's. In view of this association, there has been an expectation that, by scaling from solar flares to the flares which are observed on M dwarfs, radio emission analogous to solar Type II bursts should be detectable in association with M dwarf flares. However, several surveys have revealed that this expectation does not seem to be fulfilled. Here we hypothesize that the presence of larger global field strengths in low-mass stars, suggested by recent magneto-convective modeling, gives rise to such lar…
Coronal plumes are bright magnetic funnels found in quiet regions (QRs) and coronal holes (CHs). They extend high into the solar corona and last from hours to days. The heating processes of plumes involve dynamics of the magnetic field at their base, but the processes themselves remain mysterious. Recent observations suggest that plume heating is a consequence of magnetic flux cancellation and/or convergence at the plume base. These studies suggest that the base flux in plumes is of mixed polarity, either obvious or hidden in SDO HMI data, but do not quantify it. To investigate the magnetic or…
Coronal Holes (CHs) have subdued intensity and net blueshifts when compared to Quiet Sun (QS) at coronal temperatures. At transition region temperatures, such differences are obtained for regions with identical photospheric absolute magnetic flux density ($\vert$B$\vert$). In this work, we use spectroscopic measurements of the \car 1334~Å line from Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), formed at chromospheric temperatures, to investigate the intensity, Doppler shift, line width, skew, and excess kurtosis variations with $\vert$B$\vert$. We find the intensity, Doppler shift, and line wi…
In this work we study a class of recently discovered metrewave solar transients referred to as Weak Impulsive Narrowband Quiet Sun Emission \citep[WINQSEs,][]{mondal2020}. Their strength is a few percent of the quiet Sun background and are characterised by their very impulsive, narrow-band and ubiquitous presence in quiet Sun regions. \citet{mondal2020} hypothesised that these emissions might be the radio counterparts of the nanoflares and their potential significance warrants detailed studies. Here we present an analysis of data from an extremely quiet time and with an improved methodology ov…
We study a series of relations between physical parameters in coronal loops of the quiet Sun reconstructed by combining tomographic techniques and modeling of the coronal magnetic field. We use differential emission measure tomography (DEMT) to determine the three-dimensional distribution of the electron density and temperature in the corona, and we model the magnetic field with a potential-field source-surface (PFSS) extrapolation of a synoptic magnetogram. By tracing the DEMT products along the extrapolated magnetic field lines, we obtain loop-averaged electron density and temperature. Also,…
Vector Magnetic Fields and Current Helicities in Coronal Holes and Quiet Regions
在太阳光球层中,冕洞的许多性质是未知的,特别是矢量磁场。利用\emph{Hinode}的观测资料,我们首次研究了两个CH中的矢量磁场、电流密度和电流螺旋度,并与两个正常安静区(QR)进行了比较。我们发现,在CH和QR,大电流螺旋度所在的地区主要是同空间的强大的垂直和水平场元素的形状和位置。在CH中,水平磁场、倾角、电流密度和电流螺旋度都大于QR中的水平磁场、倾角、电流密度和电流螺旋度。平均垂直电流密度和电流螺旋度,在所有观察到的地区,包括CH和QR平均,分别约为0.008 A m $^{-2}$和0.005 G $^{2}$ m $^{-1}$。垂直场强于100 G的磁通量集中区的平均电流密度高达0.012 $\pm$ 0.001 A m $^{-2}$,与耀斑活动区的平均电流密度一致。我们的结果意味着,无论是在CH和QR的磁场,特别是强磁场是非势。
Coronal holes (CHs) regions are dark in comparison to the quiet-Sun (QS) at the coronal temperatures. However, at chromospheric and transition region (TR) temperatures, QS and CHs are hardly distinguishable. In this study we have used the \ion{Mg}{2}~2796.35~Å spectral line recorded by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) to understand the similarities and differences in the QS and CH at chromospheric levels. Our analysis reveals that the emission from \ion{Mg}{2}~k3 \& k2v that originates in the chromosphere is significantly lower in CH than in QS for the regions with similar magn…
We propose that coronal heating in EUV coronal plumes is weaker, not stronger, than in adjacent non-plume coronal magnetic funnels. This expectation stems from (i) the observation that an EUV plume is born as the magnetic flux at the foot of the plume's magnetic funnel becomes tightly packed together, and (ii) the observation that coronal heating in quiet regions increases in proportion to the coast-line length of the underlying magnetic network. We do not rule out the possibility that coronal heating in EUV plumes might be stronger, not weaker, but we point out how the opposite is plausible. …
The structure of the solar corona is made of magnetic flux tubes or loops. Due to the lack of contrast with their environment, observing and studying coronal loops in the quiet Sun is extremely difficult. In this work we use a differential emission measure tomographic (DEMT) technique to reconstruct, from a series of EUV images covering an entire solar rotation, the average 3D distribution of the thermal properties of the coronal plasma. By combining the DEMT products with extrapolations of the global coronal magnetic field, we reconstruct coronal loops and obtain the energy input required to …
While the quiet Sun magnetic field shows only little variation with the solar cycle, long-term variations cannot be completely ruled out from first principles. We investigate the potential effect of quiet Sun magnetism on spectral solar irradiance through a series of small-scale dynamo simulations with zero vertical flux imbalance ($\langle B_z\rangle=0$) and varying levels of small-scale magnetic field strength, and one weak network case with an additional flux imbalance corresponding to a flux density of $\langle B_z\rangle=100$ G. From these setups we compute the dependence of the outgoing …
We report the smallest coronal jets ever observed in the quiet Sun with recent high resolution observations from the High Resolution Telescopes (HRI-EUV and HRI-Lyα) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) onboard Solar Orbiter. In the HRI-EUV (174 Å) images, these microjets usually appear as nearly collimated structures with brightenings at their footpoints. Their average lifetime, projected speed, width, and maximum length are 4.6 min, 62 km s^(-1), 1.0 Mm, and 7.7 Mm, respectively. Inverted-Y shaped structures and moving blobs can be identified in some events. A subset of these events also …
We examine the initiation of 10 coronal jet eruptions in quiet regions on the central disk, thereby avoiding near-limb spicule-forest obscuration of the slow-rise onset of the minifilament eruption. From the SDO/AIA 171A 12-second-cadence movie of each eruption, we (1) find and compare the start times of the minifilament's slow rise, the jet-base bright point, the jet-base interior brightening, and the jet spire, and (2) measure the minifilament's speed at the start and end of its slow rise. From (a) these data, (b) prior observations showing that each eruption was triggered by magnetic flux c…
We investigate in detail the magnetic cause of minifilament eruptions that drive coronal-hole jets. We study 13 random on-disk coronal hole jet eruptions, using high resolution X-ray images from Hinode/XRT, EUV images from SDO/AIA, and magnetograms from SDO/HMI. For all 13 events, we track the evolution of the jet-base region and find that a minifilament of cool (transition-region-temperature) plasma is present prior to each jet eruption. HMI magnetograms show that the minifilaments reside along a magnetic neutral line between majority-polarity and minority-polarity magnetic flux patches. Thes…
We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of a quiet-Sun region at a wavelength of 3 mm, obtained during the first solar ALMA cycle on April 27, 2017, and compare them with available chromospheric observations in the UV and visible as well as with photospheric magnetograms. ALMA images clearly reveal the presence of distinct particularly dark/cool areas in the millimeter maps having temperatures as low as 60% of the normal quiet Sun at 3 mm, which are not seen in the other data. We speculate that ALMA is sensing cool chromospheric gas, whose presence had earli…
Recurrent Coronal Jets and QPPs: Periodic Reconnection and Localized Heating Across Quiet-Sun to Active Regions
Astronomical Observatory, Kyoto University(京都大学天文观测所);Key Laboratory of Solar Activity and Space Weather, School of Aerospace, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳)航天学院太阳活动与空间天气重点实验室);Division of Mathematics, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee(邓迪大学科学与工程学部数学系);Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi(瓦拉纳西印度技术学院(贝拿勒斯 Hindu 大学)物理系)
The motion of faint propagating disturbances (PD) in the solar corona reveals an intricate structure which must be defined by the magnetic field. Applied to quiet Sun observations by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)/Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a novel method reveals a cellular network, with cells of typical diameters 50\arcsec\ in the cool 304Å channel, and 100\arcsec\ in the coronal 193Å channel. The 193Å cells can overlie several 304Å cells, although both channels share common source and sink regions. The sources are points, or narrow corridors, of divergence that occupy the cent…
The second law of thermodynamics imposes an increase of macroscopic entropy with time in an isolated system. Microscopically, however, the entropy production can be negative for a single, microscopic realization of a thermodynamic process. The so-called fluctuation theorems provide exact relations between the stochastic entropy consumption and generation. Here, we analyse pixel-to-pixel fluctuations in time of small-scale magnetic fields (SSMF) in the quiet Sun observed with the SDO/HMI instrument. We demonstrate that entropy generated by SSMF obeys the fluctuation theorems. In particular, the…
Turbulent convection efficiently transports energy up to the solar photosphere, but its multi-scale nature and dynamic properties are still not fully understood. Several works in the literature have investigated the emergence of patterns of convective and magnetic nature in the quiet Sun at spatial and temporal scales from granular to global. Aims. To shed light on the scales of organisation at which turbulent convection operates, and its relationship with the magnetic flux therein, we studied characteristic spatial and temporal scales of magnetic features in the quiet Sun. Methods. Thanks to …