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The interpretation of total line intensities from optically thin gases

II. The coronal forbidden lines

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We discuss the application of a general diagnostic procedure, developed in the preceding paper of this series, to the inference of the physical state of coronal condensations from a knowledge of their forbidden line emission. We consider the limitations set on such an analysis by inadequacies in existing data and indicate the additional observations in the infrared and ultraviolet, as well as the visible, which will be needed for development of the full power of the diagnostic method.

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  1. Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

    J. T. Jefferies

  2. High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

    F. Q. Orrall

  3. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, H.I., U.S.A.

    J. B. Zirker

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  1. J. T. Jefferies
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Presently on leave of absence from the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, 1970.

Of the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Colorado.

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Jefferies, J.T., Orrall, F.Q. & Zirker, J.B. The interpretation of total line intensities from optically thin gases. Sol Phys 22, 317–326 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148699

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