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Welcome to the The First Joint Arizona/NSO Summer School June 11-16, NSO Sac Peak Observatory, NM. List of Topics and Lecturers. Helioseismology Rachel Howe, NSO, Tucson Rudi Komm, NSO, Tucson Solar Interior Gordon Petrie, NSO, Tucson Radiative Transfer Han Uitenbroek, NSO, Sac Peak - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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UofA/NSO Summer School Introduction to the Sun6/17/06
Welcome to the The First Joint Arizona/NSO Summer SchoolJune 11-16, NSO Sac Peak Observatory, NM
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List of Topics and Lecturers• Helioseismology
– Rachel Howe, NSO, Tucson– Rudi Komm, NSO, Tucson
• Solar Interior– Gordon Petrie, NSO, Tucson
• Radiative Transfer– Han Uitenbroek, NSO, Sac Peak
• Solar Magnetohydrodynamics– Randy Jokipii, UofA, Tucson
• Photospheric and Chromospheric Magnetic Fields– K.S. Balasubramanian (Bala), NSO, Sac Peak
• Solar-Energetic Particles– Joe Giacalone, UofA, Tucson
• Space Weather– Tom Bogan, NCAR, Boulder
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List of Activities
• Computer software programs– RASL/DASL CDs and workbooks– xsolar (Chris Russell, UCLA)
• Solar wind, interplanetary magnetic fields
– Helioseismology application widget (Rachel Howe)
• Solar viewing through Hα telescopes– Outside of visitor center
• Poster viewing/discussion
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List of Other Activities
• Monday – reception at the director’s house• Tuesday – White Sands picnic• Wednesday –
– Tour of NSO facilities, – Community BBQ
• Thursday – Pizza Night / Star Party
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UofA/NSO Summer School Introduction to the Sun6/17/06
The Physics of the Sun
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Why Study the Sun ?
• Influence on Earth
• Important for Astronomy– Only star that we can see closely
• The source of many interesting and important physics problems
• For Me?– Many basic properties are a mystery!
• dynamo, coronal heating, source of high-energy particles, etc.
– Space radiation environment, space weather, acceleration of high-energy charged particles
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Source of the Sun’s Internal Energy:p-p chain is dominate for the Sun; also CNO chain
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Solar Structure: The Standard Solar
Model
• Theoretical model used to determine the physical properties of the Sun’s interior
• Hydrostatic and thermal equilibrium– A big ball of gas held together by
gravity + radiative diffusion
• Can add convection, but this is difficult (simple approach – mixing-length theory)
• Nuclear reaction rates and opacities are needed
• Boundary conditions are tricky – need to use an iterative approach
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Solar Oscillations
• Waves can propagate through the Sun causing a variety of vibrations– Like sound waves
• These are used to infer pressures, densities, chemical compositions, and rotation rates within the Sun – Constraints on solar
models
• Helioseismology
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• Turbulent convective motions cause overturning (bubbling) motions inside the Sun. – These are responsible for
the granulation pattern seen on the Sun’s surface.
– Rayleigh-Bénard convection
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Recent High-resolution Images of
granulation
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The photosphere
• About 5700K– Coolest region of the
Sun (coldest in sunspots)
• Sunspots (usually in pairs)
• Variety of convection cells (granulation, supergranulation, etc.)
• Limb Darkening
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The Chromosphere
• Above the photosphere is a layer of less dense but higher temperature gases called the chromosphere
“Color Sphere”
• characterized by spikesof rising gas
• Spicules extend upward from the photosphere into the chromosphere along the boundaries of supergranules
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The Corona
• The outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, the corona, is made of very high-temperature gases at extremely low density
• The solar corona blends into the solar wind at great distances from the Sun
• Because the corona is very hot, it is best viewed in the x-ray part of the spectrum
• What heats the corona remains an open question!
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Emission Spectra in the UV
Far UV
To the far rightof this plot is theextreme UV (soft X-ray)
Near UV
Dupree et al., ApJ, 1973
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SOHO/EIT image at 195 Angstroms (FeXII)
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Sunspots
• Existence known since 350 BC (Greece), 28 BC (China)
• Lower temperature
• Umbra and penumbra
• Associated with Intense magnetic fields– Zeeman effect
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The Babcock model andSolar Dynamo
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The 11-year Sunspot Cycle
Number of Sunspots versus time – they come and go every 11 years
Number of Sunspots versus latitude – forms a “butterfly pattern”
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The Sun and Earth’s Climate:The Maunder Minimum
• Complete absence of sunspots for 50 years corresponds to a mini ice age
• There is a loose correlation between global man temperature and sunspots
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Magnetism is the Key to Understanding the Sun
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Coronal loops expand from the surface of the Sun following a solar explosion (solar flare) on April 21, 2002
TRACE movie
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The Buildup and release of magnetic field energy
• CMEs and Flares– A solar flare is a brief
eruption of hot, ionized gases from a sunspot group
– A coronal mass ejection (CME) is much larger
• Geomagnetic storms
• High-Energy Particles (Space Radiation)
Halloween 2003 storms
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The Sun is the Most Important Particle Accelerator in the Solar System
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Aurora in Tucson
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SOHO/LASCO (C3) Coronagraph
“Halloween” solar storms of 2003
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Propagating Shocks
• Analogy with sonic booms
• Efficient particle accelerators
• Radiation Environment and Space Weather
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My research has shown that the angle between the shock propagation direction and the magnetic field determines the maximum energy in the particle events
Perpendicular shocks high-energy particles
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Perpendicular Shocks in the solar atmosphere
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Analogy to Cosmic Rays and Supernove remants:Supernova Remnant 1006 – Chandra image
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