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Eclipse Observations of the Extreme Solar Limb at Submillimeter Wavelengths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

T. A. Clark
T. A. Clark*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada

Abstract

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This paper will review the use of solar eclipses in the study of the extreme solar limb at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths. This approach has been used to overcome the severe limitation imposed by diffraction upon the resolution attainable by direct solar limb scans at these wavelengths. Strong absorption by water vapor in the Earth's lower atmosphere has necessitated the use of telescopes at high altitude sites or in jet aircraft. Data from several of these experiments will be reviewed, including those from the recent James Clerk Maxwell Telescope observation at a wavelength of 1.3 mm of the eclipse of 11 July 1991. In view of the success of recent measurements in improving the spatial resolution with this technique, several of the ultimate limitations placed upon it by lunar surface roughness and by diffraction at the lunar limb are outlined.

These observations have demonstrated the inadequacy of present phenomenological solar atmospheric models at sub-millimetric source heights. Newer models have been developed to fit the observed extension, brightening and detailed structure of the solar limb by attempting to include the structure of the chromospheric network and its spicular field, and their relative success in doing so will be discussed.

Keywords

eclipsesinfrared: starsSun: atmosphereSun: chromosphere
Type
Part 2: Infrared Observations of the 1991 Total Solar Eclipse
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 154: Infrared Solar Physics , 1994 , pp. 139 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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