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Title: | Defining the Middle Corona | Authors: | West, Matthew J. Seaton, Daniel B. Wexler, David B. Raymond, John C. Del Zanna, Giulio Rivera, Yeimy J. Kobelski, Adam R. Chen, Bin DeForest, Craig Golub, Leon Caspi, Amir Gilly, Chris R. Kooi, Jason E. Meyer, Karen A. Alterman, Benjamin L. Alzate, Nathalia ANDRETTA, Vincenzo Auchère, Frédéric Banerjee, Dipankar Berghmans, David Chamberlin, Phillip Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep Downs, Cooper GIORDANO, Silvio Matteo Harra, Louise Higginson, Aleida Howard, Russell A. Kumar, Pankaj Mason, Emily Mason, James P. Morton, Richard J. Nykyri, Katariina Patel, Ritesh Rachmeler, Laurel Reardon, Kevin P. Reeves, Katharine K. Savage, Sabrina Thompson, Barbara J. Van Kooten, Samuel J. Viall, Nicholeen M. Vourlidas, Angelos Zhukov, Andrei N. |
Issue Date: | 2023 | Journal: | SOLAR PHYSICS | Number: | 298 | Issue: | 6 | Abstract: | The middle corona, the region roughly spanning heliocentric distances from 1.5 to 6 solar radii, encompasses almost all of the influential physical transitions and processes that govern the behavior of coronal outflow into the heliosphere. The solar wind, eruptions, and flows pass through the region, and they are shaped by it. Importantly, the region also modulates inflow from above that can drive dynamic changes at lower heights in the inner corona. Consequently, the middle corona is essential for comprehensively connecting the corona to the heliosphere and for developing corresponding global models. Nonetheless, because it is challenging to observe, the region has been poorly studied by both major solar remote-sensing and in-situ missions and instruments, extending back to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) era. Thanks to recent advances in instrumentation, observational processing techniques, and a realization of the importance of the region, interest in the middle corona has increased. Although the region cannot be intrinsically separated from other regions of the solar atmosphere, there has emerged a need to define the region in terms of its location and extension in the solar atmosphere, its composition, the physical transitions that it covers, and the underlying physics believed to shape the region. This article aims to define the middle corona, its physical characteristics, and give an overview of the processes that occur there. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/35129 | URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-023-02170-1 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85161868738 |
ISSN: | 0038-0938 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11207-023-02170-1 | Bibcode ADS: | 2023SoPh..298...78W | Fulltext: | open |
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