Relative elemental abundance and heating constraints determined for the solar corona from SERTS measurements

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Abundance, Aluminum, Astrophysics, Chromium, Conductive Heat Transfer, Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Iron, Line Spectra, Silicon, Solar Corona, Solar Radiation, Sun, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Atomic Physics, Electron Distribution, Ionization, Magnetic Fields, Scale Height, Solar Limb, Spectrographs, Telescopes

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Intensities of EUV spectral lines were measured as a function of radius off the solar limb by two flights of Goddard's Solar EUV Rocket Telescope and Spectrograph (SERTS) for three quiet sun regions. The density scale height, line-ratio densities, line-ratio temperatures, and emission measures were determined. The line-ratio temperature determined from the ionization balances of Arnaud and Rothenflug (1985) were more self-consistent than the line-ratio temperatures obtained from the values of Arnaud and Raymond (1992). Limits on the filling factor were determined from the emission measure and the line-ratio densities for all three regions. The relative abundances of silicon, aluminum, and chromium to iron were determined. Results did agree with standard coronal relative elemental abundances for one observation, but did not agree for another. Aluminum was overabundant while silicon was underabundant. Heating was required above 1.15 solar radii for all three regions studied. For two regions, local nonconductive heating is needed for any filling factor, and in all three regions for filling factor of 0.1.

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