INVESTIGADORES
MAUAS Pablo Jacobo David
artículos
Título:
On carbon monoxide cooling in the solar atmosphere
Autor/es:
MAUAS, PABLO J.; AVRETT, EUGENE H.; LOESER, RUDOLF
Revista:
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Editorial:
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Referencias:
Año: 1990 vol. 357 p. 279 - 287
ISSN:
0004-637X
Resumen:
We compute the CO cooling rate for models of the solar atmosphere using the detailed line-by-line CO opacity in the fundamental band, and carrying out a full radiative transfer calculation for each line. We study the importance of the different assumptions that have been made to obtain the CO cooling rate and find that when detailed optical depth effects are taken into account, the calculated CO cooling rate at line optical depths near unity can be smaller than optically thin estimates by more than an order of magnitude. We find that CO cooling does not account for the missing source of radiative cooling in the temperature minimum region of the quiet Sun.
