The Convex-Hull Method for Solving Differential Emission Measures in the Solar Corona

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The Differential Emission Measure (DEM) describes the temperature distribution of the solar corona, but the inversion of the observations through the instrument's temperature response functions is mathematically ill-posed and typically under-constrained. The most commonly used techniques (e.g., the EM Loci Method, forward-fitting iterators, etc.) each have their drawbacks, but most importantly, they do not guarantee the solution is the globally minimum chi-square solution nor provide a way to quantitatively explore the range of solutions in the neighborhood of the globally minimum solution, which is necessary for properly evaluating levels of confidence. The Convex-Hull Method surmounts the mathematical difficulties of the DEM inversion, providing a more accurate characterization of the solution space with which to evaluate physical models against observations. I demonstrate how this method can be used to constrain the set of temperature distributions observed in the solar corona. This work was supported under contract SP02H1701R from Lockheed-Martin to SAO, and under contract NNM07AB07C from NASA to SAO.

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