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Inclination of Large Coronal Loops Observed by TRACE

Fabio Reale

subject

PhysicsOpticsbusiness.industryPhysics::Space PhysicsPerpendicularAstrophysics::Solar and Stellar AstrophysicsField of viewSolar surfaceAstrophysics::Earth and Planetary AstrophysicsCoronal loopbusinessSolar diskComputational physics

description

A TRACE field of view well inside the solar disk shows very well defined large loops, likely to be very inclined to the solar surface. On the other hand there is little evidence of large loops perpendicular to the solar surface. We show that this does not mean that most large loops have such large inclination but that perpendicular loops are much less visible to TRACE, because of density stratification. We quantitatively evaluate this effect by modeling in detail loops with different inclinations.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2000-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3429-5_10