Nonequilibrium Ionization Effects on Solar EUV and X-Ray Imaging Observations
Nonequilibrium Ionization Effects on Solar EUV and X-Ray Imaging Observations
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DOI:
10.3847/1538-4357/ab24bb
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发表时间:
2019-07-10
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4.9
通讯作者:
Kim, Yeon-Han
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作者:
Lee, Jin-Yi;Raymond, John C.;Kim, Yeon-Han
During transient events such as major solar eruptions, the plasma can be far from the equilibrium ionization state because of rapid heating or cooling. Nonequilibrium ionization. (NEI) is important in rapidly evolving systems where the thermodynamical timescale is shorter than the ionization or recombination timescales. We investigate the effects of NEI on EUV and X-ray observations by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory and X-ray Telescope (XRT) on board Hinode. Our model assumes that the plasma is initially in ionization equilibrium at low temperature, and it is heated rapidly by a shock or magnetic reconnection. We tabulate the responses of the AIA and XRT passbands as functions of temperature and a characteristic timescale, n(e)t. We find that most of the ions reach equilibrium at n(e)t