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In this chapter we provide an example of an APL article annotated for epistemology and meta-scientific language. The APL article originated from a Primary Scientific Literature (PSL) article (Aschwanden et al. 2007), and reports on the Sun’s coronal heating problem. This problem refers to the puzzling fact that the Sun’s corona is much hotter than the lower layers of the Sun, which lie closer to its energy-producing core. Over the last six decades, hundreds of theoretical models to explain the corona’s high temperature have been proposed. There is still no obvious solution in sight, partly because many difficulties arise in trying to understand why the corona is so hot. The original PSL article discusses ten pieces of observational evidence to support the two-step heating scenario.
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Yarden, A., Norris, S.P., Phillips, L.M. (2015). Coronal Heating: An Annotated Example of an Adapted Primary Literature (APL) Article. In: Adapted Primary Literature. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9759-7_10
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