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Coronal Holes Not As Well Behaved As We Thought

Coronal Holes Not As Well Behaved As We Thought. Dustin Hickey Colby College ‘11 Montana State University Solar REU Program Advisor: Dana Longcope. August 4, 2010. What is a Coronal Hole?. Area of Low Density Plasma on the Sun Visible only in ultraviolet and xray.

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Coronal Holes Not As Well Behaved As We Thought

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  1. Coronal HolesNot As Well Behaved As We Thought Dustin Hickey Colby College ‘11 Montana State University Solar REU Program Advisor: Dana Longcope August 4, 2010

  2. What is a Coronal Hole? • Area of Low Density Plasma on the Sun • Visible only in ultraviolet and xray

  3. Relationship to Magnetic Field • Thought to be caused by magnetic field lines carrying the plasma into space

  4. How Well do Coronal Holes and Open Magnetic Field Lines Match Up?

  5. How Well do Coronal Holes and Open Magnetic Field Lines Match Up?

  6. Mapping the coronal Holes • SOHO EIT images • Use intensity to find coronal holes • Project them onto a longitude/latitude map

  7. Mapping the Open Field Regions • Magnetograms and Harmonic Coefficients • Model the magnetic field on the entire sun using a months worth of data

  8. Mapping Challenges • Distortion and size changing effects • Angle of the sun • Output/input compatibility challenges

  9. Interpreting the Maps • Overlap • Trends and Patterns • Consistency

  10. Getting Some Numbers • Percent of coronal holes that overlap with open regions • Ratio of visible coronal hole are to open region area

  11. Results

  12. Low percentage

  13. High Percentage

  14. Conclusions • Coronal holes aren’t completely anchored to open field regions • Best correlation is 60% • Coronal holes vary over months and hours • Emerging Patterns

  15. Acknowledgements • Dana Longcope • Chris Lowder • Montana State University Solar Physics Department • My Fellow REU Students

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