Submillimeter observations of solar limb-brightening in the total solar eclipse of 31 July 1981

Details Submillimeter observations of solar limb-brightening in the total solar eclipse of 31 July 1981 Submillimeter observations of solar limb-brightening in the total solar eclipse of 31 July 1981

Sep 1981

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Final Technical Report, 1 Oct. 1980 - 30 Sep. 1981 Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Inst. for Astronomy.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

C-141 Aircraft, Limb Darkening, Luminous Intensity, Solar Eclipses, Solar Observatories, Astronomical Photometry, Lunar Maps, Magnetic Flux, Submillimeter Waves

Scientific paper

Eight flights of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) were devoted to solar observation. The successful observation of a total solar eclipse was accomplished. The observations were made simultaneously at 30, 50, 100, and 200 microns. The successful adaptation of the KAO for solar observations thus provided the most detailed data to date in this spectral band. The results from a preliminary analysis of the KAO data are summarized: (1) the 200 micron limb is extended about 3 arc sec above the 30 micron limb, indicating the prescence of cool dense material up to the altitudes of spicules; (2) strong radial darkening of the quiet sun intensity profile appeared at 200 microns, probably an indication that hot material in the low chromosphere is recessed into vertical magnetic flux tubes embedded in a cooler nonmagnetic substrate, which obscures the heated material approaching the limb; (3) active regions were observed to undergo a strong increase in contrast above the quiet sun background at wave lengths of 100 microns and longer; and (4) the moon was mapped for use as a photometric standard for determining the absolute intensity of the sun in all four wavelength bands.

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