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STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE 2010 JULY 11 ECLIPSE WHITE-LIGHT CORONA

PASACHOFF, J. RUŠIN, V. DRUCKMÜLLEROVÁ, H. SANIGA, M. LU, M. MALAMUT, C. SEATON, D. GOLUB, L. ENGELL, A. HILL, S. LUCAS, R.

Original Title

STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE 2010 JULY 11 ECLIPSE WHITE-LIGHT CORONA

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The white-light corona (WLC) during the total solar eclipse on 2010 July 11 was observed by several teams in the Moon's shadow stretching across the Pacific Ocean and a number of isolated islands. We present a comparison of the WLC as observed by eclipse teams located on the Tatakoto Atoll in French Polynesia and on Easter Island, 83 minutes later, combined with near-simultaneous space observations. The eclipse was observed at the beginning of the solar cycle, not long after solar minimum. Nevertheless, the solar corona shows a plethora of different features (coronal holes, helmet streamers, polar rays, very faint loops and radial-oriented thin streamers, a coronal mass ejection, and a puzzling "curtain-like" object above the north pole). Comparing the observations from the two sites enables us to detect some dynamic phenomena. The eclipse observations are further compared with a hairy-ball model of the magnetic field and near-simultaneous images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, the Sun Watcher, using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing on ESA's PRoject for Onboard Autonomy, and the Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph on ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The Ludendorff flattening coefficient is 0.156, matching the expected ellipticity of coronal isophotes at 2R, for this rising phase of the solar-activity cycle.

Keywords

eclipses - Sun: chromosphere - Sun: corona - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs) - Sun: magnetic topology - Sun: UV radiation

Authors

PASACHOFF, J.; RUŠIN, V.; DRUCKMÜLLEROVÁ, H.; SANIGA, M.; LU, M.; MALAMUT, C.; SEATON, D.; GOLUB, L.; ENGELL, A.; HILL, S.; LUCAS, R.

RIV year

2011

Released

20. 6. 2011

Publisher

Chicago Journals

Location

Chicago, USA

ISBN

0004-637X

Periodical

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Year of study

734

Number

2

State

United States of America

Pages from

114

Pages to

123

Pages count

10

BibTex

@article{BUT73124,
  author="Jay {Pasachoff} and Vojtěch {Rušin} and Hana {Druckmüllerová} and Metod {Saniga} and Munzhou {Lu} and Craig {Malamut} and Dan B. {Seaton} and Leon {Golub} and Alexander {Engell} and Steele Waychoff {Hill} and Robert Earl {Lucas}",
  title="STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE 2010 JULY 11 ECLIPSE WHITE-LIGHT CORONA",
  journal="ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL",
  year="2011",
  volume="734",
  number="2",
  pages="114--123",
  issn="0004-637X"
}