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Spartan 201 is a shuttle deployed spacecraft that is scheduled to perform ultraviolet spectroscopy and white light polarimetry of the extended solar corona during two 40 hour missions to occur in September 1994 and August 1995. The spectroscopy is done with an ultraviolet coronal spectrometer which measures the intensity and spectral line profile of HI Lyα up to heliocentric heights of 3.5 solar radii. It also measures the intensities of the OVI doublet at 1032 and 1037 Å and of Fe XII at 1242 Å. The HI Lyα line profile measurements are used to determine the random velocity distribution of coronal protons along the line-of-sight. The absolute HI Lyα intensities can be used together with electron densities from the white light coronagraph to estimate electron temperatures from hydrogen ionization balance calculations, and bulk outflow velocities from models of Doppler dimmed resonant scattering. Intensities of minor ion lines are used to determine coronal abundances and outflow velocities of O5+. Ultraviolet spectroscopy of extended coronal regions from the 11 April 1993 mission of Spartan 201 are discussed.
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Kohl, J.L., Gardner, L.D., Strachan, L. et al. Spartan 201 coronal spectroscopy during the polar passes of ulysses. Space Sci Rev 72, 29–38 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00768750
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