Spectroscopy of Stellar Coronae

J.M. Laming

Presentations at the 10th Cambridge Workshop ``Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun,'' Cambridge, MA, 1997 July 15-19

Abstract

I will review the important spectroscopic results that have come from observations of stellar coronae, mainly by EUVE and ASCA, but also from HST. The plasma parameters that can be determined from such spectra include the electron density and temperature distributions, relative element abundances. With high resolution spectra dynamical information can also be obtained. Such parameters can then be used to put constraints on models of the heating and structure of stellar coronae. Throughout I will try to emphasise the similarities and differences between stellar coronal spectroscopy and that of the solar corona.

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