Physical properties of white-light flares derived from their center-to-limb distribution

Autor: Neidig, Donald F., Wiborg, Philip H., Gilliam, Lou B.
Zdroj: Solar Physics; March 1993, Vol. 144 Issue: 1 p169-194, 26p
Abstrakt: We compare the observed center-to-limb distribution of 86 white-light flares (WLFs) with calculated distributions derived from five flare models, each covering different heights, temperatures, and densities in the solar atmosphere. Considering the limited statistics and the possibility of selection effects in reporting WLFs, the following results may be considered tentative: (1) WLFs cannot be modeledsolely by high-altitude optically thin sources, by optically thin chromospheric sources, or by photospheric sources located less than 150 km above the t5000 = 1 level; (2) middle photospheric sources extending somewhat higher than 150 km provide the best fit to the observed center-to-limb distribution, and (3) middle photospheric sources not exceeding 150 km altitude combined with chromospheric or higher-altitude sources are acceptable. An important feature of this work is that the methods used in the analysis are entirely independent of spectral analysis; yet spectral analysis has provided evidence for both photospheric and chromospheric components in WLFs.
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