X-ray Bright Points
Lee McDonald
I am hoping to investigate the energy balance in XBP's by considering the
energy injected into the coronal plasma (using the MDI magnetogram data
and assuming a magnetic reconnection model), which can then be compared
with the thermal energy contained in the XBP (observed in many different
wavelengths covering many different layers of the solar atmosphere). This
requires high spacial and temporal resolution images.
This is what I hope to observe with MDI:
High spacial and temporal resolution photospheric magnetic field
observations, covering an area on the sun of 10 x 10 arcmin, to study the
evolution of the magnetic fragments below the XBP.