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Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy from the X-Ray Polychromator on the Newly Repaired Solar Maximum Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K.T. Strong
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Ca 94304
R.A. Stern
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Ca 94304
J.R. Lemen
Affiliation:
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College, London GB.
K.J.H. Phillips
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, GB.

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The X-Ray Polychromator (XRP) resumed operations on 24 April 1984 following the successful in-orbit repair of the Solar Maximum Mission Satellite. Since that time the two instruments that comprise the XRP, the Flat Crystal Spectrometer (FCS) and the Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS), have been used to obtain new spectroscopic data from active regions and flares. The FCS, in particular, has accumulated far more observations of soft X-ray line profiles than were obtained during SMM-I in 1980. For this short presentation, we have chosen two topics to illustrate the type of data that we have obtained since the repair.

Type
Session 1. Solar Astrophysics
Copyright
Copyright © Naval Research Laboratory 1984. Publication courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

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