Far-infrared-solar imaging from a balloon-borne platform

Physics – Optics

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Balloon-Borne Instruments, Far Infrared Radiation, Infrared Imagery, Infrared Telescopes, Solar Instruments, Brightness Temperature, Cassegrain Optics, Platforms, Spectroheliographs, Stratosphere

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Far-infrared solar imaging with a balloon-borne 60-cm-diameter Cassegrain telescope is described and related to previous solar observations in the millimeter range, the IR, visible and UV spectral regions. Solar images have been taken at 50, 80, and 200 microns and represented as brightness-temperature maps. The spectral windows observed correspond to the chromosphere-photosphere transition zone of the solar atmosphere with a characteristic temperature minimum. Temperature enhancements of a few 100 K over the temperature of the quiet sun are reported for active solar regions; e.g., plages and sunspot regions. Far-infrared images provide less spatial resolution but more reliable temperature assignments than corresponding white-light, Ca II K and H-alpha pictures.

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