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Solar center-to-limb infrared intensity from the Halogen Occultation Experiment
Authors:Philip T Spickler  D Chris Benner  James M Russell III
Institution:(1) Department of Physics, The College of William and Mary, 23187-8795 Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.;(2) Atmospheric Sciences Division, NASA Langley Research Center, 23681-0001 Hampton, VA, U.S.A.
Abstract:Data from the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) provide the first opportunity to examine solar center-to-limb relative intensity measured exoatmospherically at wavelengths from 2.4 to 10 mgrm. The data were obtained from limb-to-limb scans across the solar equator on days of very low activity in May 1994. Coefficients for a function describing limb darkening are obtained at eight infrared wavelengths using a nonlinear least-squares fitting technique. Relative intensities produced by the limb-darkening functions are precise to 0.1% (2sgr). From the limb-darkening coefficients, it is possible to calculate temperature information about the photosphere. At each of the eight HALOE wavelengths, the brightness temperature from the flux, T b disk(lambda), and the temperature as a function of monochromatic optical depth, T(taulambda), are determined and normalized using Kondratyev et al. (1965) and calibrated Pierce (1954) central intensity measurements. The two temperature quantities are compared with the predictions of Vernazza, Avrett, and Loeser's (1976) model M, and in general there is good agreement. The largest differences occur between 2.4 and 3 mgrm and suggest that the central intensities used in this spectral region are low.
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