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Global Coronal Plasma Diagnostics Based on Multi-slit EUV Spectroscopy

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2024-06-12 v2

Abstract

Full-disk spectroscopic observations of the solar corona are highly desired to forecast solar eruptions and their impact on planets and to uncover the origin of solar wind. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-slit design (5 slits) to obtain extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectra simultaneously. The selected spectrometer wavelength range (184-197 \r{A}) contains several bright EUV lines that can be used for spectral diagnostics. The multi-slit approach offers an unprecedented way to efficiently obtain the global spectral data but the ambiguity from different slits should be resolved. Using a numerical simulation of the global corona, we primarily concentrate on the optimization of the disambiguation process, with the objective of extracting decomposed spectral information of six primary lines. This subsequently facilitates a comprehensive series of plasma diagnostics, including density (Fe XII 195.12/186.89 \r{A}), Doppler velocity (Fe XII 193.51 \r{A}), line width (Fe XII 193.51 \r{A}) and temperature diagnostics (Fe VIII 185.21 \r{A}, Fe X 184.54 \r{A}, Fe XI 188.22 \r{A}, Fe XII 193.51 \r{A}). We find a good agreement between the forward modeling parameters and the inverted results at the initial eruption stage of a coronal mass ejection, indicating the robustness of the decomposition method and its immense potential for global monitoring of the solar corona.

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@article{arxiv.2404.13120,
  title  = {Global Coronal Plasma Diagnostics Based on Multi-slit EUV Spectroscopy},
  author = {Lami Chan and Hui Tian and Xianyu Liu and Tibor Török and Xianyong Bai and Yufei Feng and Dipankar Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13120},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted on 2024 April 18 for publication in ApJ. Published on 2024 May 30. The name of first author changed once from Linyi Chen (simplified Chinese) to Lami Chan (traditional Chinese) but for the same person

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