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SWRI/LASP Sounding Rocket Inter-Calibration With The Eit Instrument On Board SOHO
Slater, David C.; Hassler, Donald M.; Auchère, Frédéric +1 more
Two successful sounding rocket flights were launched on 15 May 1997 and 2 November 1998 with an objective of providing inter-calibration with several of the instruments on board SOHO and TRACE. We will discuss here the results of the inter-calibration between the SwRI/LASP rocket imaging instruments and the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (E…
Ion isotropy and ion resonant waves in the solar wind: Cassini observations
Gurnett, Donald A.; Kellogg, Paul J.; Kurth, William S. +1 more
Electric fields in the solar wind, in the range of one Hertz, are reported for the first time from a 3-axis stabilized spacecraft. The measurements are made with the Radio and Plasma Wave System (RPWS) experiment on the Cassini spacecraft [Gurnett et al., 2000]. Kellogg [2000] suggested that such waves could be important in maintaining the near-is…
The Analysis of the H Lyman α Emission Line Profile from Jupiter's Aurora
Ballester, Gilda E.; Prangé, Renée; Clarke, John T. +3 more
We present the analysis and modeling of the emission spectra of the jovian northern auroral region taken from May 28 to June 3, 1993, with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. They extend from 1204 to 1240 Â covering H Lyman α and part of the Werner and the Lyman bands of H 2. We used the 2×2 arc…
The coronal FeXXI lambda 1354.094 line in AB Doradus
Mewe, R.; Hakala, P.; Vilhu, O. +1 more
The active late-type star AB Doradus was observed in February 1996 with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph of the Hubble Space Telescope using the low resolution G140L grating. The observations covered one half of the star's rotation cycle (P = 0.514 d) with 11.5 min time resolution. The strong coronal FeXXI lambda 1354.094 line formed at 10…
Astrometric observations of inner Saturnian satellites
Poulet, F.; Sicardy, B.
This paper presents observations of four inner Saturnian satellites (SX = Janus, SXI = Epimetheus, SXVI = Prometheus and SXVII = Pandora) made in August and November 1995 during the Earth and Sun crossings of Saturn's ring plane, respectively. The August 1995 data combine data taken with the Adonis optics system mounted on the ESO 3.6-m telescope …
CCD measurements of visual double stars made with the 74 cm and 50 cm refractors of the Nice Observatory (2nd series)
Gili, R.; Bonneau, D.
We present 619 measurements of 606 visual double stars made by CCD imaging from 1996 to 1999 with the 74 cm and 50 cm refractors of the Nice observatory. Angular separation, position angle and magnitude difference are given. Magnitude differences estimated from CCD images are compared with magnitude differences given in the Hipparcos catalog. The …
Electron Temperature in the Solar Wind From a Kinetic Collisionless Model: Application to High-Latitude Ulysses Observations
Issautier, Karine; Meyer-Vernet, Nicole; Pierrard, Viviane +1 more
We use a kinetic collisionless model of the solar wind to calculate the radial variation of the electron temperature and obtain analytical expressions at large radial distances. In order to be compared with Ulysses observations, the model, which initially assumed a radial magnetic field, has been generalized to a spiral magnetic field. We present …
Ultraviolet Eclipse Observations and Fundamental Parameters of the Binary HR 2554 (G6 II+A1 V)
Kürster, Martin; Bennett, Philip D.; Brown, Alexander +4 more
HR 2554 is an eclipsing binary system that contains a G6 II primary star and an A dwarf secondary. We have obtained ultraviolet spectra during two eclipses of HR 2554 in 1994 March-April and 1995 May using the HST Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) to study the atmospheric structure of the primary and to better establish the properties of…
Thermal Comptonization and Disk Thermal Reprocessing in NGC 3516
Chiang, James; Blaes, Omer
We present an application of the thermal Comptonization/disk reprocessing model recently proposed by Zdziarski, Lubiński, & Smith. We show that the absence of strong optical variations in the presence of strong concurrent X-ray variations, similar to those found by Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) monitoring obse…
Energetic ion (>∼50keV) and electron (>∼40keV) bursts observed by Ulysses near Jupiter
Anagnostopoulos, G. C.; Karanikola, I.; Marhavilas, P. K. +1 more
A careful analysis of data collected by the HISCALE experiment on board Ulysses suggests that the quasi-periodic (QP) modulation of several or tens of minutes in flux and/or anisotropy/spectral observations is an almost permanent characteristic of the energetic (>∼50 keV) ion population in the outer and the high latitude middle magnetosphere of…