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A closer look at the footpoints of coronalloops rooted in a sunspot umbra
Pradeep Chitta, Hardi Peter and Peter Young (GMU)
Solar Group Seminar14 July 2015
Coronal loops
Composite image of SDO/HMI magnetogram and AIA 171 A channel
Coronal loops
coronal loop diagnostics – flows, temperature, density,non-thermal velocity – key to understand coronal heating
mechanism
Coronal loop diagnostics – SOHO/SUMER era
Dammasch et al. (2008)
Coronal loop diagnostics – Hinode/EIS era
Del Zanna (2008)
Coronal loop diagnostics – Hinode/EIS era
Young et al. (2007)
Hara et al. (2008)
Coronal loop diagnostics – Hinode/EIS era
Young et al. (2007) Hara et al. (2008)
Supersonic downflows – IRIS era
Kleint et al. (2014)
Supersonic downflows – IRIS era
Kleint et al. (2014)
Bright dots in the TR – IRIS era
Tian et al. (2014)
Footpoints rooted in a sunspot umbra
• The footpoints of loops appear as isolated bright dots in Si1400 slit-jaw observations.• Weak or little background emission from umbra allows us toclearly detect and associate the loops and their footpoints
Observational context
Spatial maps in various lines
Average O IV and Si IV spectra
Connecting footpoint to its loop!
Doppler maps at the footpoint
• Footpoint in O IV showsdownflows at ≈15 kms−1.
• Spatially resolvedDoppler maps offootpoints havepotential information toplace bounds on thenon-thermal velocityand constraints on theprocesses
O IV and Si IV spectra vs. time
C II and Mg II k spectra vs. time
Distribution of emission
Discussion – Heating
Hansteen et al. (2010)
• “ downflows in TR lines naturally produced by rapid,episodic heating, at low heights of the upperchromospheric plasma to coronal temperatures”
• “heating by stressing of the magnetic field by photosphericand convection zone dynamics”
Conclusions and tasks to be completed
• Isolated coronal loops identified in a sunspot umbra• Footpoint in O IV shows a strong flow component at 10-15
km s−1, and a weak ≈ 100 km s−1 redshifted component• The origin of redshifted component can be traced to the
strong downflows observed in the loop (issues with masssupply – Siphon flows due to asymmetric heating?)
• Downflows at TR temperatures show acceleration• Preliminary density analysis with different O IV line
pair ratios shows some inconsistencies – to becompleted
• Deriving and comparing non-thermal velocities at thefootpoint and its loop – to be completed
Thank you!
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