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Unresolved Fine-scale Structure in Solar Coronal Loop-tops

  • Authors: E. Scullion, L. Rouppe van der Voort, S. Wedemeyer, and P. Antolin

Scullion et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 797 36.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Co-temporal and co-spatial Hα red-wing images (grayscale), together with overlaid contours (17.1 nm: yellow and 21.1 nm: red), are presented in panel (A). The observations consist of a snapshot of a post X1.9 class flare loop system from 2011 September 24 (data set C). Panel (B) presents the normalized intensity cross-cuts of the post-flare loop-leg (solid green line Region 7 in panel (A)) for the associated Hα signal (black curve) along with the respective curves of the 17.1 nm (yellow) and 21.1 nm (red) channels, also contoured in panel (A). Likewise, we also plot intensity profiles for Region 6, representing fine-scale structure close to the loop-top, in panel (B). The shaded green boxes represent examples of associated fine-scale structures in Hα and the EUV lines from which we extract measurable strand cross-sections for our statistical sample. The blue horizontal lines represent the well defined and measurable cross-sections of the EUV loops in contrast with the fine-scale structuring in Hα.

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