HR: 10:20h
AN: SH52C-01 INVITED [Abstracts]
TI: Using Hinode Data to Explicitly Model Active Regions Cores
AU: * Winebarger, A R
EM: winebarger@physics.aamu.edu
AF: Alabama A&M University, 4900 Meridian Street
PO Box 1268, Normal, AL 35762,
AU: Warren, H P
EM: hwarren@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7670, Washington, DC 20375,
AB:
There have been many recent studies that have modeled active regions as an ensemble of steadily heated loops.
One limitation of these studies is that they required a series of assumptions, such as how the heating rate
scales with the magnetic field strength, loop length, and filling factor. We have developed a new technique that
allows us to infer the heating rate directly from the observations. Our method uses observations of density
sensitive line ratios in the "moss" (or footpoints) of active regions cores to infer both the heating rate and the filling
factor. In this talk we will present the application of our modeling technique to new observations from the EIS and
XRT instruments on Hinode.
DE: 7509 Corona
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting