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Geometry of Hα Active Region Loops Observed on the Solar Disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Chen Chuan-le
Affiliation:
Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
R. E. Loughhead
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Physics, CSIRO, Sydney

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Plasma loops are the dominant structures, in the higher levels of the Sun’s atmosphere above active regions. Much of our knowledge of their properties has come from space observations made over the past decade or so in the EUV and X-ray regions of the spectrum and, more recently, from high-resolution, two-dimensional images of microwave sources obtained with the Very Large Array radio interferometer (VLA). On the other hand, the spatial resolution of rocket and satellite observations has so far generally failed to match that of ground-level optical observations made in Hα and other strong chromospheric lines. The latter permit one to study in much greater detail the morphology of individual loops, as illustrated for example in the recent work of Loughhead, Wang and Blows (1983). These authors addressed themselves to the task of determining the true geometrical shapes of individual loops, a problem which had hitherto received little attention.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1983

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