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accepted on

17-jun-2021


 HOP No.

 HOP title

HOP 0420

Study of MHD Waves in the Chromosphere Related to the Variation of Solar Abundances

plan term

2021/06/30-2021/07/06
2021/07/17-2021/07/23
2021/09/27-2021/10/09
2022/07/03-2022/07/12
2023/08/14-2023/08/20
2023/10/21-2023/10/27
2024/08/24-2024/08/30

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proposer

 name : Lee, Chae, Kwak @  e-mail : lksun[at]astro.snu.ac.kr, jcchae[at]snu.ac.kr, hannahk[at]astro.snu.ac.kr

contact person in HINODE team

 name : Savage, Watanabe, De Pontieu @  e-mail : sabrina.savage[at]nasa.gov, watanabe.tetsuya[at]nao.ac.jp, bdp[at]lmsal.com

 abstract of observational proposal
Main Objective: Examine the effect of the waves propagating in the lower solar atmosphere on the abundance variation (First Ionization Potential (FIP) fractionation)

Scientific Justification: The various structures in solar atmosphere have different solar abundances, photospheric or coronal. Our goal is to understand how the solar abundances changes in different plasma structures along the solar atmosphere. So far, several theoretical models propose that the waves in the lower solar atmosphere preferentially effect on the ionized particles more than neutral ones depending on their magnetic field configurations and environmental plasma characteristics, which are the main causes for the abundance variations (Laming 2012, 2017).

To examine the effect of the waves and characteristics of the environmental plasma on the elemental abundance variation, we propose to observe the elemental abundances and chromospheric waves in various solar structures (quiet and active regions) using the Hinode/EIS coordinating with IRIS and BBSO/GST. The abundance variation can be measured from the FIP bias factor observed by EIS (Brooks et al. 2015, Lee et al. 2015, Doschek et al. 2018, Doschek & Warren 2019, Baker et al. 2020). However, the connections between abundances and wave characteristics are uncertain due to the difficulties of detecting waves. The higher spatial and temporal resolutions of FISS observations and the analysis method provides a capability to investigate wave characteristics. Recent work by Chae et al. (ApJL, accepted) detected the Alfven waves in the chromosphere at the sunspot penumbra from the FISS (Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph) data. By taking advantage of the coordinate observations with FISS/GST and IRIS, we will investigate the effect of the waves on the abundance variation (FIP bias factor observed by EIS) in the corona.

Reference
Baker et al., 2020, ApJ, 894, 35
Brooks et al., 2015, NatCO, 6, 5947
Doschek et al., 2015, ApJ, 808, 7
Doschek & Warren, 2019, ApJ, 884, 158
Laming, 2012, ApJ, 744, 115
Laming, 2017, ApJ, 844, 153
Lee et al. 2015, ApJ, 809, 114
Chae et al., accepted, ApJL

 request to SOT
SOT observations are optional.
If telemetry allows, we request SP maps covering the target region, active region or quiet region (at least FOV needs to be larger than 60 arcsec x 60 arcsec).

 request to XRT
XRT observations are optional.
We request typical active region or monitor observations for context images of 384x384 FOV with two filters for temperature coverage.
- active region: Al-poly and thin-Be
- quiet sun or equatorial coronal hole: Al-mesh and Al-poly

 request to EIS
EIS is the primary instrument. EIS observation is required.

The main target is an active region. But if there is not an appropriate sunspot, we request a quiet sun or equatorial coronal hole observations. Depending on the target, we request different EIS studies as below.

1. For an active region:
We request the observation set consisting of context image, raster scanning, and sit and stare obs. with high time cadence. The total observation time is 3-4 hours.

Context obs. - Study: PRY_slot_contextLIQS (ID: 577) x 1 time run (5 min)
Scanning obs. - Study: HPW021VEL120x512v2_b (ID:521) x 1 time run (45 min)
Sit & Stare obs. - Study: HPW021VEL001x512v2 (ID:584) x 2 times run (~ 1 hour 40 min)
Scanning obs. - Study: HPW021V HPW021VEL120x512v2_b (ID:521) x 1 time run. (45 min, if telemetry allows)

2. For a quiet sun or coronal hole:
Context obs. - Study: PRY_slot_contextLIQS (ID: 577) x 1 time run (5 min)
Scanning obs. - Study: dhb_atlas_30x512 (ID: 586) x 1 time run (1 hour)
Sit & Stare obs. - Study: HPW021VEL001x512v1_b (ID: 519) x 2 or 3 times run (2 ~ 3 hours)The target and pointing will be chosen in advance by the proposers, Hannah Kwak (hannahk@astro.snu.ac.kr, period of June 30 - July 6) and Kyoung-Sun Lee (lksun@astro.snu.ac.kr, period of July 17 - 23) and communicated to the COs.

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