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Chapter 1 - Introduction
Solar Observations Throughout History
The Solar Atmosphere
The Fraunhofer Lines
Photospheric Lines
Chromospheric Lines
Magnetograms
Photospheric Features
Granulation
Magnetic Structure
Chromospheric Features
Fine Structure
Active Regions
Chromospheric Network
The Chromospheric Heating Problem
Network Heating
Outline of this Thesis
Chapter 2 -Wave Heating of the Chromosphere
Maxwell's Equations
The Induction Equation
Fluid Dynamics
Equation of Mass Continuity
Equation of Energy Conservation
Equation of Momentum Conservation
Waves
Acoustic Velocity & the Klein Gordon Equation
Acoustic, Gravity, & Acoustic-Gravity Waves
Acoustic waves
Gravity Waves
Acoustic-Gravity Waves
Magnetic Waves
Alfvén Waves
Magneto-Acoustic Waves
Magneto-Gravity Waves
Magneto-Acoustic-Gravity Waves
Inhomogeneous Plasmas
Heating Theories
Chapter 3 -Instrumentation
Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope
General Description
Optical Lines
Magnetograms
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
Characteristics
Imaging in the Ultraviolet
Data Reduction
Chapter 4 -Oscillations in Ca
II
K
3
Observations of the Quiet-Sun Network
Introduction
Data Analysis
Image Segmentation
Contrast Lightcurves
Fourier Analysis
Filtering
Results
Discussion
Chapter 5 -Oscillations in Multi-Wavelength Optical Observations of the Quiet-Sun Network
Introduction
Data Analysis
Heights of Formation
Wavelet Analysis
Search for Travelling Waves
Results
NBP7 -Table 5.2
NBP2 -Table 5.3
NBP5 -Table 5.4
NBP1 -Table 5.5
Discussion
Chapter 6 -Oscillations in
TRACE
Observations of the Quiet-Sun Chromosphere
Introduction
Observations
Heights of Formation
Data Analysis
Alignment
Creation of Network and Internetwork Subsets
Filtering
Wavelet Analysis
Results
Internetwork Oscillations
Network Oscillations
Oscillation Recurrence
Long Lifetime Oscillations
Network - Internetwork Comparison
Network - Internetwork Dominance
Conclusions
Chapter 7 -Concluding Remarks and Future Work
Optical Datasets
Mode-Coupling in the Network
Spectroscopy
Automated Wavelet Analysis
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James McAteer 2004-01-14
