Significant Results from SUMER/SOHO

TitleSignificant Results from SUMER/SOHO
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsDwivedi, B. N.
JournalArXiv Astrophysics e-prints
Date PublishedNov
Abstract

We briefly outline recent observations by solar spacecraft such as Yohkoh, SOHO, TRACE, and RHESSI, which have revolutionized what we know and don't know about the Sun. We then present some significant results, mainly from SUMER/SOHO but also complimentary from the other SOHO's experiments, such as CDS, EIT, UVCS, and LASCO. In particular, we present density-temperature structures, explosive events, velocity anisotropy, wave activity, coronal holes and the solar wind etc. These results have provided valuable clues to a better understanding of the two of the SOHO's principal scientific objectives namely, how the Sun's magnetic energy heats its million-degree corona, and feeds the solar wind.