A BRIGHT RIM OF SOLAR FILAMENT OBSERVED BY USING FISS

  • Yang, Hee-Su (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chae, Jong-Chul (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Song, Dong-Uk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2011.04.05

Abstract

Bright rims are one of the most unknown part of a filament nowadays. Many models tried to explain the environments, but there is no commonly acceptable model. Many survey observations have been performed to find various characteristics of the bright rim statistically, but there was only one spectroscopic observation to understand phenomena of the bright rim. We observed a bright rim on June 25, 2010 using FISS installed in NST, Big Bear Solar observatory. FISS can obtain a couple of wavebands data simultaneously with short time cadence and fine resolution(~ 0.1", expected) with Adaptive Optics. By applying the cloud model, we found source function, optical thickness, temperature and non-thermal velocity of the region from the spectra of Ha and CaII 8542 lines. We discuss the physical implication of these measurements on the nature of bright rims of filaments.

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