Quiet-Sun MgII h & k line profiles from IRIS

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We derived high-precision reference profiles of the MgII h and k lines that represent the quiet Sun during a minimum of the solar activity. To do so, we used the broad catalog of full-Sun mosaics obtained by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). To minimize the influence of the local variations due to the on-disk solar features and to achieve low levels of uncertainties, we used 12 IRIS full-Sun mosaics without sunspots or other significant signs of solar activity. These mosaics were obtained between 2019 April and 2020 September in the near-ultraviolet spectral range. In this paper, we present the disk-averaged reference profiles of MgII h and MgII k lines, together with a series of reference profiles spanning the distance between the disk center and the solar limb. These series of profiles offer a detailed representation of the center-to-limb variation of both MgII h and MgII k lines. The reference MgII h and k line profiles provided in this paper can be used as the incident radiation boundary condition for radiative-transfer modeling of prominences, spicules, and other coronal and chromospheric structures.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22550016
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/255/16
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Provenance
Creator Gunar S.; Koza J.; Schwartz P.; Heinzel P.; Liu W.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2021
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Solar System Astronomy