Solar Physics REU, Summer 2006

Montana State University-Bozeman

Kerry Neal
Oberlin College/Montana State University


Mmmm snowman
Me eating a snowman on Saddle Peak in June



Advisor: Trae Winter

Project:  Differential Emission Measure Techniques Explored

Final Presentation



My Project:


This summer I am working on a technique we did not get to last summer: differential emission measure (DEM) analysis

About Me

I am using the PINTofALE software created by folks over at CfA.  They have a great deal of documentation about the software.  There is a somewhat hard to find index list of examples here.  I found these to be of particular use:
LINEID, which is used to identify lines in the spectrum
FITLINES, which fits Gaussians to the lines that are identified
MCMC_DEM, which is the program that carries out the DEM analysis



I have had some issues with the documentation in the basic examples and even the guides that I have links to above, so I have composed my own guide to this process.  It's not perfect because I've had some problems with carrying out the analysis, but here it is for what it's worth:  PintofAle-HowTo