<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Markus,<br><br>I am gratified that you find me dazzling...I mean that<br>you find the paper dazzling! Most credit goes to Durgesh<br>who did all the hard work. As you and others must appreciate,<br>working with spectroscopic data is non-trivial. Hinode/EIS<br>is a great instrument, but the observations require a lot <br>of careful and meticulous analysis. We are looking forward<br>to the rise of the next solar cycle when we can pursue<br>some more observations of active regions. So far, we have just<br>had a 'taster'.<br><br>Thanks for the reference. We look forward to some animated <br>discussions at the Loops meeting in Firenze!<br><br>Best wishes,<br>helen <br><br>On Jan 6 2009, Markus J. Aschwanden wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Helen et al,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Congratulations to the new dazzling Hinode paper!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On the same note, from the statistics of some 18,000 loop widths<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">measurements in the 3 TRACE filters we found a slight dependence<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that loops become wider (or fuzzier) with temperatures, i.e.,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>w(T) ~ T^(1.3+/-0.7)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(see Aschwanden, Nightingale, & Boerner 2007, ApJ 656, 577).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So loops at T=2 MK are about a factor of 3 fatter than at T=1 MK.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The inferred coronal filling factors vary also slightly with <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">temperature,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">from q~0.74 at T=1 MK to q~0.32 at T=2 MK, which goes along the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lines Leon suggests.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Markus<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:08 PM, <a href="mailto:reale@astropa.unipa.it">reale@astropa.unipa.it</a> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I agree with Leon, but I also think that the paper only certifies <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">loops look fuzzier in hotter lines. There may be no real contradiction<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">with Leon's perspective. Of course, we all sustain Leon's new imager.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ciao<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Fabio<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Helen et al.,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I can't let this go uncommented. Even though this paper was<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">accepted (I know, I was the editor) I disagree with the conclusion<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that hot loops are fuzzier. Yes, that's what you see, but it is<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">also explainable if the hot parts of the AR have many fine threads<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(unresolved at present resolution) with a large filling factor.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">That as the conclusion Joan and I came to from analyzing 284A<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">data.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Anyway, this won't be settled until we fly an imager with higher<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">resolution. We're proposing one this year and I'm hoping we get<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the chance to clear this up, finally.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Leon<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Loops mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Loops@solar.physics.montana.edu">Loops@solar.physics.montana.edu</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://mithra.physics.montana.edu/mailman/listinfo/loops">https://mithra.physics.montana.edu/mailman/listinfo/loops</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Loops mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Loops@solar.physics.montana.edu">Loops@solar.physics.montana.edu</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://mithra.physics.montana.edu/mailman/listinfo/loops">https://mithra.physics.montana.edu/mailman/listinfo/loops</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">____________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dr. Markus J. 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