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Modify Concept: (various solar regions) #285

Closed danseaton closed 4 years ago

danseaton commented 4 years ago

Name the concept in question Solar K coronal region http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/2042 Solar F coronal region http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1991 Solar E coronal region http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1990 Solar M coronal region http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/984

Describe the change The K, F, and E coronae are not regions, they are all different observational manifestations of the corona — they all refer to the same region, and the difference is the physical process by which generate the observations signatures we detect. These should be renamed as "Solar E corona", "Solar F corona", "Solar K corona".

I do not know what the M corona is supposed to be referring to. It is not in general use, and I recommend deprecating this keyword.

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katieefrey commented 4 years ago

K, F, and E corona will be updated as recommended above.

The M corona concept has its origins in the IAU thesuarus (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus/english/MREGIONS.html) and the IVOA Thesaurus (http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/Vocabularies/vocabularies-20091007/IVOAT/dict/M.html#mRegion). Will need to look into this further.

katieefrey commented 4 years ago

"....the solar M-regions should be identified with the central portion of magnetically open solar regions, or coronal holes." 1975P&SS...23..143G Gulbrandsen, A. The solar M-region problem - An old problem now facing its solution? Planetary and Space Science, Volume 23, Issue 1, p. 143-149.

It looks like "solar m regions" are something we now identify as "coronal holes". @danseaton does this seem likely to you?

danseaton commented 4 years ago

Agreed, this sounds right to me. I would probably deprecate this keyword in favor of the much more widely used term coronal hole.

katieefrey commented 4 years ago

Leon Golub (AAS Solar editor) also concurs.

Suggestions accepted and implemented, will be included in the upcoming release.