Publication detail

A Numerical Method for the Visualization of the Fe XIV Emission in the Solar Corona Using Broadband Filters

MARTIŠEK, K. DRUCKMÜLLEROVÁ, H.

English title

A Numerical Method for the Visualization of the Fe XIV Emission in the Solar Corona Using Broadband Filters

Type

WoS Article

Language

en

Original abstract

The goal of this article is to demonstrate how the emission from the Fe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line, also known as the green line, can be extracted from images taken during total solar eclipses with commercially available color cameras. This concept is technically feasible because Fe XIV is the brightest optical emission line in the inner corona, and because the sensors of these cameras are retrofitted with a standard Bayer mask, namely, a square grid of spectrally broad (about 100 nm) green, blue, and red filters in the ratio of 2:1:1. The technique presented here, and developed for this purpose, yields qualitatively accurate Fe XIV images, as tested by comparing with Fe XIV eclipse images taken with a 0.15 nm narrow-bandpass filter. While this approach cannot replace narrow-bandpass Fe XIV images for quantitative studies of the corona, it provides a simple and affordable tool for studying the morphology of coronal structures emitting preferentially at the peak ionization temperature of Fe XIV, namely, 1.8 x 10^6 K.

Keywords in English

methods: data analysis – methods: numerical – Sun: corona – techniques: image processing

Released

2011-11-23

Publisher

IOP Publising

Location

Bristol, UK

ISSN

0067-0049

Journal

The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series

Volume

197

Number

2

Pages from–to

23–29

Pages count

7

BIBTEX


@article{BUT75495,
  author="Karel {Martišek} and Hana {Druckmüllerová}",
  title="A Numerical Method for the Visualization of the Fe XIV Emission in the Solar Corona Using Broadband Filters",
  journal="The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series",
  year="2011",
  volume="197",
  number="2",
  pages="23--29",
  issn="0067-0049"
}