A Deep Chandra X-Ray Spectrum of the Accreting Young Star TW Hydrae
Brickhouse, N. S., S. R. Cranmer, A. K. Dupree, G. J. M. Luna, and S. Wolk, A Deep Chandra X-Ray Spectrum of the Accreting Young Star TW Hydrae, ApJ, 710, 1835-1847 (2010) (ADS)
(click on the image for a larger version)
Shift gears briefly - this is illustrating
accretion onto TW Hydrae, not the
Sun.
But similar physics and similar spectroscopic diagnostics also occur in
solar
failed eruptions, or in other
situations see mass flowing through coronal magnetic channels and impacting
the chromosphere.
The data come from the
Chandra
High Energy Transmission Grating and
sometimes we really wish we had comparable X-ray spectroscopy for the
Sun.
The authors attribute this rather florid cartoon to A. Szentgyorgyi.
Shift gears briefly - this is illustrating accretion onto TW Hydrae, not the Sun. But similar physics and similar spectroscopic diagnostics also occur in solar failed eruptions, or in other situations see mass flowing through coronal magnetic channels and impacting the chromosphere. The data come from the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating and sometimes we really wish we had comparable X-ray spectroscopy for the Sun. The authors attribute this rather florid cartoon to A. Szentgyorgyi.