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Chromospheric heating above supergranular boundaries

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A geometrical optics technique developed in order to study energy transport by weak fast-mode hydromagnetic shock waves in a non-homogeneous, anisotropic medium has been applied to the problem of the heating of the chromosphere in the regions of intensified magnetic field which occur above the boundaries of supergranular cells. The results of the calculation indicate that there should be a temperature enhancement in the regions of the chromospheric network. This temperature enhancement is advanced as a possible mechanism for the origin of the observed calcium emission network.

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    Robert W. Milkey

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Publications of the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana University, No. 106.

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Milkey, R.W. Chromospheric heating above supergranular boundaries. Sol Phys 14, 62–76 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00240160

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