Abstract A generalized method of calculating the distribution of the emission measure with temperature (DEM) for optically thin plasma has been developed. The method simultaneously uses line flux ratios in addition to line fluxes. When a ratio of lines from the same element is used, the resulting DEM is independent of this element's abundance. The method has been applied to derive the absolute abundances of iron in solar flares from X-ray spectra recorded by the Bent Crystal Spectrometer on SMM. The iron abundances have been found to vary between flares. The calcium abundances have also been calculated using the same method and are found to be in close agreement with the values derived from the line-to-continuum technique (Lemen et al., 1990 and Sylwester et al., 1990). The variation of iron and calcium abundances is compared. A correction to the ionization balance for iron is proposed.
Iron and calcium abundances in solar flares from the multi-temperature analysis of X-ray spectra
Advances in Space Research ; 11 , 1 ; 155-158
1991-01-01
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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