Publication detail

Polar Plume Brightening During the 2006 March 29 Total Eclipse

PASACHOFF, J. RUŠIN, V. DRUCKMÜLLER, M. DRUCKMÜLLEROVÁ, H. BĚLÍK, M. SANIGA, M. MINAROVJECH, M. MARKOVÁ, E. BABCOCK, B. SOUZA, S. LEVITT, J.

Original Title

Polar Plume Brightening During the 2006 March 29 Total Eclipse

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

We discuss a remarkable brightening in a polar plume, as inferred from unique coordinated observations of the white-light corona during the total eclipse of the Sun of 2006 March 29. The polar plume (also known as a polar ray, with distinctions that we discuss) was observed at the positional angle of 9 deg the velocity at which the brightening propagated was about 65 km s-1, which is close to the values derived by modeling of mass/energy transfer in polar plumes/rays as well as to those acquired from images from the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO/EIT). Comparing our data with those from the SOHO/LASCO C2 coronagraph, we estimate the lifetime of the polar ray to be less than 24 hr.

Keywords

corona, sun, eclipse, image processing

Authors

PASACHOFF, J.; RUŠIN, V.; DRUCKMÜLLER, M.; DRUCKMÜLLEROVÁ, H.; BĚLÍK, M.; SANIGA, M.; MINAROVJECH, M.; MARKOVÁ, E.; BABCOCK, B.; SOUZA, S.; LEVITT, J.

RIV year

2008

Released

20. 7. 2008

Publisher

Chicago Journals

Location

USA

ISBN

0004-637X

Periodical

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Year of study

682

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

638

Pages to

643

Pages count

6

BibTex

@article{BUT48411,
  author="Jay {Pasachoff} and Vojtěch {Rušin} and Miloslav {Druckmüller} and Hana {Druckmüllerová} and Marcel {Bělík} and Metod {Saniga} and Milan {Minarovjech} and Eva {Marková} and B. A. {Babcock} and S. P. {Souza} and J. S. {Levitt}",
  title="Polar Plume Brightening During the 2006 March 29 Total Eclipse",
  journal="ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL",
  year="2008",
  volume="682",
  number="1",
  pages="638--643",
  issn="0004-637X"
}