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The Interpretation of Xuv Solar Radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Leo Goldberg

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Solar ultraviolet and X-radiation arriving at the Earth is emitted mainly by highly-charged ions in the outer layers of the Sun, where departures from thermodynamic equilibrium are extreme. Hence the diagnosis of physical conditions from spectral intensities entails the use of accurate cross sections for a variety of physical processes governing the excitation and ionization of emitting ions. Now that the full potential of satellites for solar data acquisition has begun to be realized, the need for atomic data of all kinds is more acute than ever before. In this review, I shall illustrate the importance of laboratory and theoretical investigations for the analysis of solar ultraviolet and X-ray data by referring to five problems to which space experimenters are currently devoting a great deal of attention:

  • (1) the temperature minimum at the interface between the photosphere and the chromosphere,

  • (2) the temperature and density profiles of the low chromosphere,

  • (3) the transition zone at the chromosphere-corona interface,

  • (4) the corona,

  • (5) solar flares.

Type
III. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 1970 , 1971 , pp. 476 - 485
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971

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