Temperature and Differential Emission Measure Profiles in Turbulent Solar Active Region Loops

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2022
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We examine the temperature structure of static coronal active region loops in regimes where thermal conductive transport is driven by Coulomb collisions, by turbulent scattering, or by a combination of the two. (In the last case collisional scattering dominates the heat transport at lower levels in the loop where temperatures are low and densities are high, while turbulent scattering dominates the heat transport at higher temperatures/lower densities.) Temperature profiles and their corresponding differential emission measure distributions are calculated and compared to observations, and earlier scaling laws relating the loop apex temperature and volumetric heating rate to the loop length and pressure are revisited. Results reveal very substantial changes, compared to the wholly collision-dominated case, to both the loop scaling laws and the temperature/density profiles along the loop. They also show that the well-known excess of differential emission measure at relatively low temperatures in the loop may be a consequence of the flatter temperature gradients (and so increased amount of material within a specified temperature range) that results from the predominance of turbulent scattering in the upper regions of the loop.

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Emslie, A. Gordon and Bradshaw, Stephen J.. "Temperature and Differential Emission Measure Profiles in Turbulent Solar Active Region Loops." The Astrophysical Journal, 939, (2022) IOP Publishing: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac961b.

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