On Deriving Plasma Velocity Information from CDS/NIS Observations: Application to the Dynamics of Blinkers

Details On Deriving Plasma Velocity Information from CDS/NIS Observations: Application to the Dynamics of Blinkers On Deriving Plasma Velocity Information from CDS/NIS Observations: Application to the Dynamics of Blinkers

Apr 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006soph..234..257b&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 234, Issue 2, pp.257-272

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Using standard instrument software and two independently developed data reduction and analysis procedures, we re-examine the accuracy of plasma velocity information derived from data obtained by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS). We discuss only the Ov 629 Å line data obtained by the Normal Incidence Spectrometer (NIS) and analyse a quiet Sun (QS) and active region (AR) dataset. Using the QS data, we demonstrate that the well-known North-South tilt in wavelength along the NIS slit varies significantly with time, which is not accounted for in the standard CDS correction procedures. In addition, when residual N S trends exist in the data after processing, they may not be detected, nor removed, using the standard analysis software. This underscores the need for careful analysis of velocity results for individual datasets when using standard correction procedures. Furthermore, even when the results obtained by the two independent methods are well correlated (coefficients greater than 0.9), discrepancies in the values of the derived Doppler velocities can remain (95% within ±5 km s-1). Therefore, we apply the results to examine the velocities obtained for EUV blinkers by previous authors. It is found that a strong correlation exists in the patterns of variation of the blinker velocities (> 0.98), even though there may be differences in their magnitudes. That is, in a clear majority of cases, the methods agree that a blinker is red-shifted or blue-shifted, although the uncertainty in the absolute velocity may be large.

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