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The spacelab Lyman alpha and white light coronagraphs program

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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the High Altitude Observatory have defined a joint coronagraphs experiment for a future Spacelab mission. The instrumentation package would include an ultraviolet light coronagraph to measure the intensity and profiles of spectral lines formed between 1.2 and 8 solar radii from Sun center and a white light coronagraph to measure the intensity and polarization of visible light. The overall goals of the joint program are to use new coronal plasma diagnostic techniques to understand the physical processes and mechanisms operating in the solar corona, to understand the acceleration of high-speed and low-speed solar wind streams and to extrapolate this knowledge to other stars in order to help understand the physics of stellar coronae and stellar mass loss.

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  1. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA

    J. L. Kohl, G. L. Withbroe & H. Weiser

  2. High Altitude Observatory, USA

    R. M. Macqueen & R. H. Munro

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Proceedings of the Conference ‘Solar Physics from Space’, held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), 11–14 November 1980.

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Kohl, J.L., Withbroe, G.L., Weiser, H. et al. The spacelab Lyman alpha and white light coronagraphs program. Space Sci Rev 29, 419–424 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00239486

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