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A study of line widths and kinetic parameters of ions in the solar corona
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    It is an outstanding question how the  solar corona is heated to millions of degrees and the solar wind is  accelerated to hundreds of kilometres per second.Alfvénwaves  have been considered as a possible mechanism. The first key procedure  is to determine the amplitude of Alfvén waves, revealing that Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere have enough energy flux required to heat corona and accelerate the solar wind. An approach is to measure line widths of solar extreme-ultraviolet lines emitted by highly charged ions, since Alfvén waves can appear as a Doppler broadening  of an ion emission line. However, the ion thermal motions also appear  as the Doppler broadening. Consequently, it becomes very difficult to  discriminate the ion thermal  motions (temperature) and non-thermal motions (Alfvén waves), since  these two pieces of information merge in only one physically observable  quantity of line width.    

   Recently, we performed an analysis of line width data based on  observations of the polar corona by the SUMER/SOHO spectrometer at  heights of 57 arcsecond  and 102 arcsecond. We found, for the first time, that there exists a  strong strongly linear correlation between the square of line width  relative to the wavelength and the inverse ion mass. The Pearson  product-moment correlation coefficients exceed 0.9. This finding may be  interesting because it implies that the ions from a given height of  polar corona have a common temperature and a common non-thermal  velocity. Consequently, we directly obtained the temperature and  non-thermal velocity using linear least-square fit,. The results is  shown in Figure 1. One can find that the temperature is around 2.8 MK at  heights of 57 arcsecond and 102 arcsecond. The non-thermal velocity is  21.6 km s−1 at height of 57 arcsecond and 25.2 km s−1 at height of 102 arcsecond, with standard deviations of 1.5 km s−1 and 1.6 km s−1, respectively.

By with for ZHAO Guoqing

The  work by Zhao G. Q., Wu D. J. (corresponding author), Wang, C. B. has  been published in the Ap&SS, please see Ap&SS, 353, 373 for more  details (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10509-014-2072-y).      

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