SUMER study #1297: Quiet Sun oscillations

Remarks: The study was initiated by K. Muglach (AIP). Details have been published by K. Muglach, B. Fleck: Waves in the quiet Sun's chromosphere. 1999, ESA SP-446 (Proc. 8th SOHO Workshop), 499-502.



line = *, continuum = +

Si II 1309.28 (14 000 K)


continuum and line intensity, line shift and width


Spectral correction

Line shifts in the spectral regime caused by thermal deformations in the optical bench of SUMER.

The long periodic contribution (approx. 2 hours) is correlated with the cycle of the thermal control. Details have been published by J. Rybak, W. Curdt, A. Kucera, U. Schühle, H. Wöhl: Chromospheric and transition region dynamics - Reasons and consequences of the long-period instrumental periodicties of SUMER/SOHO. 1999, ESA SP-448 (Proc. 9th European Meeting on Solar Physics), 361-366. The small additional oscillation is caused by the heater duty cycle (default = 10 minutes).


IED, 25.Aug.00