CATASTROPHIC COOLING DIAGNOSTICS

Authors
INNES DE
Citation
De. Innes, CATASTROPHIC COOLING DIAGNOSTICS, Astrophysics and space science, 216(1-2), 1994, pp. 311-316
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astrophysics and space science → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004640X
Volume
216
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
311 - 316
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1994)216:1-2<311:CCD>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
This paper presents models of optical emission line features that char acterise catastrophic cooling in radiative shocks. The computations ar e based on a 1-D magnetohydrodynamic model. Runaway cooling results in the formation of secondary shocks which travel through the previously shocked cooling layer. Several filaments of emission with specific pr operties and spectral signatures are produced.