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Electric Conductivity of Lower Solar Atmosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jingxiu Wang
Jingxiu Wang*
Affiliation:
Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract

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Electric conductivity tensor of partly-ionized plasma is deduced. Four atmospheric models are used then to estimate the conductivity in the lower atmosphere. The parallel conductivity reaches its minimum value in the temperature minimum zone, which is 1 to 2 orders smaller than the conductivity of fully-ionized plasmas of the same condition; the effective perpendicular conductivity, or Cowling conductivity, becomes 5 to 6 orders smaller than the fully-ionized value in the lower chromosphere.

Information

Type
Session 7. Magnetic Shear and Electric Currents
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 141: The Magnetic and Velocity Fields of Solar Active Regions , 1993 , pp. 465 - 468
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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