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The characteristics of impulsive solar EUV bursts

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We examine a number of high time resolution intensity-time profiles of EUV impulsive bursts as observed by the Harvard College Observatory EUV Spectroheliometer carried aboard the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount. These bursts are found to be synchronous (to within the instrumental time resolution of 5.5 s) in all wavelengths observed, corresponding to emissions from temperatures ranging from upper chromospheric to coronal. The distribution with temperature of a suitably defined emission measure parameter is also examined as a function of time throughout the bursts and a marked similarity in the shape of this distribution, both between different events and throughout the time history of any particular event, is noted. The significance of these observations for physical processes associated with EUV bursts is briefly discussed.

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  1. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, 02138, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

    A. Gordon Emslie & Robert W. Noyes

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On leave from Dept. of Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.

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Gordon Emslie, A., Noyes, R.W. The characteristics of impulsive solar EUV bursts. Sol Phys 57, 373–383 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00160110

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