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Spatial and Spectral Structure of Chromospheric Lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Jay M. Pasachoff
Affiliation:
Williams College-Hopkins Observatory, Williamstown, Mass. 01267, U.S.A.
Frederick S. Harris
Affiliation:
Williams College-Hopkins Observatory, Williamstown, Mass. 01267, U.S.A.
Jacques M. Beckers
Affiliation:
Sacramento Peak Observatory, AFCRL, Sunspot, N.M. 88349, U.S.A.

Abstract

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We are reducing a set of spectra covering the region from 3400 to 4330 Å that show both spatial and spectral structure in chromospheric emission lines from many elements and ions. The spectra were taken with the vacuum tower telescope at the Sacramento Peak Observatory with the spectrograph slit tangent to and touching the limb. Thus some height resolution in the chromosphere is present. Many of the lines show doubly-reversed emission, often asymmetric either for the whole line or for fine structure. The quality of the data is such as to improve our understanding of line blends. The spectral structure can be compared with the well-known structure in the H and K lines of Ca II and in the resonance lines of MgII in order to deduce a model for the lower chromosphere.

Type
Part I: The Quiet Chromosphere: Limb Phenomena
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974