Solar flares and the zeeman effect

ABSTRACT IN _Nature_ of May 14, Ellison1 proposes the Stark effect in preference to the Zeeman effect as the cause of the line-broadening observed in the spectra of solar flares. However,

Ellison has himself recorded2, in relation to the observed broadening of the _H_α line, that “_H_β, _H_γ, etc., show lesser widths, but the data are very meagre". This is the reverse of

what is to be expected on the basis of the Stark effect ; but is to be expected if, as I have suggested3, the broadening is due to Zeeman effect. Access through your institution Buy or

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