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Transition Region and Coronal Explorer

Figure 3.3: TRACE spacecraft. The three triangular windows are the EUV filters. The fourth circular window is the UV entrance filter.


Table 3.2: Summary of TRACE filter passbands (Handy et al. 1999a)
Central Wavelength (Å) Emission Bandwidth Temperature
  (Å) log10 (K)
171 Fe IX/X 6.4 5.2-6.3
195 Fe XII/XXIV 6.5 5.7-6.4, 7.0-7.4
284 Fe XV 10.7 6.1-6.6
       
1216 Ly 84 4.0-4.5
1550 IV 30 4.8-5.4
1600 UV cont. 275 3.6-4.0
1700 UV cont. 200 3.6-4.0
5000 White light broad 3.6-3.8



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James McAteer 2004-01-14