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Plane grating as polar heliostat in eclipse observations of the chromosphere and prominences with special application to studies of Doppler-widened Thomson-scattered Fraunhofer lines

✍ Scribed by Yngve Öhman


Publisher
Springer
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
368 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0038-0938

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✦ Synopsis


Attention is drawn to a very simple instrumental arrangement for eclipse observations of the spectra of the chromosphere and prominences using a plane grating as polar helios~at and a short focus camera. A discussion is made of an infrared chromospheric spectrum showing traces of Thomsonscattered Ca IX absorption lines in the continuous spectrum. If the effect is real, it indicates a temperature of the order of 5000 K. A simple vector formula is presented describing various types of Doppler effects appearing in radiation scattered by moving particles.