Detail publikace

Discovery of aNew Class of Coronal Structures in White Light Eclipse Images

DRUCKMÜLLER, M. HABBAL, S. MORGAN, H.

Originální název

Discovery of aNew Class of Coronal Structures in White Light Eclipse Images

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

White light images of the solar corona, taken during total solar eclipses, capture the complex dynamic relationship between the coronal plasma and the magnetic field. This relationship can be recorded on timescales of seconds to minutes, within a few solar radii above the solar surface. Rays, large-scale loops, and streamers, which are the brightest structures in these images, have shaped current models of the coronal magnetic field and solar wind flow. We show in this work how the application of novel image processing techniques to unique high-resolution white light eclipse images reveals the presence of a new class of structures, reminiscent of smoke rings, faint nested expanding loops, expanding bubbles, and twisted helical structures. These features are interpreted as snapshots of the dynamical evolution of instabilities developing at prominence-corona interfaces and propagating outward with the solar wind.

Klíčová slova

eclipses, instabilities, solar wind, Sun, corona, filaments, prominences

Autoři

DRUCKMÜLLER, M.; HABBAL, S.; MORGAN, H.

Rok RIV

2014

Vydáno

21. 2. 2014

ISSN

0004-637X

Periodikum

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Ročník

2014 (785)

Číslo

1

Stát

Spojené státy americké

Strany od

14

Strany do

22

Strany počet

9

BibTex

@article{BUT106823,
  author="Miloslav {Druckmüller} and Shadia Rifai {Habbal} and Huw {Morgan}",
  title="Discovery of aNew Class of Coronal Structures in White Light Eclipse Images",
  journal="ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL",
  year="2014",
  volume="2014 (785)",
  number="1",
  pages="14--22",
  doi="10.1088/0004-637X/785/1/14",
  issn="0004-637X"
}