Publications for Jonathan Cirtain

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

2004

Cirtain, J. W.; Martens, P.C.H.; Acton, L. W.; The Coronal EUV Diffuse Background, The Astrophysical Journal, submitted.

Scott, J. T., Cirtain, J. W.; Martens, P.C.H.; JOP 146 Data Analysis, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, in preparation.

Cirtain, J. W.; Martens, P.C.H.; Scott, J. T.; An Hour in the Life of a Coronal Loop, The Astrophysical Journal, in preparation.

2003

Schmelz, J. T.; Beene, J. E.; Nasraoui, K.; Blevins, H. T.; Martens, P. C. H.; Cirtain, J. W., The Effect of Background Subtraction on the Temperature of EIT Coronal Loops,
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 599, Issue 1, pp. 604-614.

Cirtain, J. W.; Martens, P. C. H.; Winter, H. D., The Analysis of a Coronal Loop on the Limb, Advances in Space Research, Volume 32, Issue 6, p. 1117-1121.

Schmelz, J. T.; Cirtain, J. W.; Beene, J. E.; Blevins, H. T.; Ellis, D.; Medlin, D. A.; Nasraoui, K.; Nevels, C., Coronal loops: Isothermal OR multithermal?
Advances in Space Research, Volume 32, Issue 6, p. 1109-1115.

2002

Martens, P. C. H.; Cirtain, J. W.; Schmelz, J. T., The Inadequacy of Temperature Measurements in the Solar Corona through Narrowband Filter and Line Ratios
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 577, Issue 2, pp. L115-L117.

Schmelz, J. T.; Scopes, R. T.; Cirtain, J. W., Determining coronal heating of plasma loops through differential emission measure analysis
Advances in Space Research, Volume 30, Issue 3, p. 507-516.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Winter, H. D., III; Cirtain, J. W., Combining SXT and CDS Observations to
Investigate Coronal Abundances, in: Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal
Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting.
Proceedings of the conference held January 2002, Edited by P.C.H. Martens
and D. Cauffman. Published by Elsevier Science on behalf of COSPAR in the
COSPAR Colloquia Series, 2002, p.93

Cirtain, J. W.; Schmelz, J. T., Isothermal Approximation vs. Differential
Emission Measure Analysis: How Hot are Hot Loops? in: Multi-Wavelength
Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary
Meeting. Proceedings of the conference held January 2002, Edited by P.C.H.
Martens and D. Cauffman. Published by Elsevier Science on behalf of COSPAR
in the COSPAR Colloquia Series, 2002, p. 79

SEMINARS:

Invited: The University of St. Andrews, Scotland, May 11, 2004; The Coronal EUV Background

Invited: The University of Glasgow, Scotland, May 13, 2004; The Coronal EUV Background

Invited: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, May, 18, 2004; Spectroscopic Observations of the EUV Background

Invited: Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, Harvard University, Jan 17, 2004; The Diffuse EUV Corona

Invited: Naval Research Laboratory, Jan 23, 2004; The Diffuse EUV Corona

Invited: Goddard Space Flight Research Center, Jan14, 2004; The Diffuse EUV Corona

CONFERENCE ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

Invited: Solar Coronl Loops Conference, Orsay, Fr, Nov 2002; JOP 146: The combination of TRACE and CDS

Contributed: AAS 200th AAS meeting, Albaquerque, NM, June, 2002; Methods of Temperature and Emission Measure Determination of Coronal Loops

Contributed: Montana Academy of Sciences, Great Falls, MT, May, 2002; The EUV Cornona,an Introduction to TRACE

CONFERENCE POSTERS:

The Diffuse EUV Corona; J. W. Cirtain, P. C. H. Martens, L. W. Acton, J. T. Scott, and H. D. Winter
American Astronomical Society & SPD meeting, Denver, CO, June, 2004

On the Combination of TRACE and CDS data; Scott, J. T., Cirtain, J. W., Martens, P.C.H., Winter, H. D.
American Astronomical Society & SPD meeting, Denver, CO, June, 2004

TRACE and CDS: JOP 146 Data Analysis Part I; Scott, J. T.; Cirtain, J. W.; Martens, P. C. H.
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #34, Greenbelt, MD, June, 2003.
Coronal Loops: Evolving Beyond the Isothermal Approximation; Schmelz, J. T.; Cirtain, J. W.; Allen, J. D.
American Astronomical Society, 200th AAS Meeting, Albaquerque, NM, June, 2002.

How to `Subtract' Spectrally Determined Intensities from a Coronal Loop on the Limb; Martens, P. C. H.; Cirtain, J. W.; Schmelz, J. T.
American Astronomical Society, 200th AAS Meeting, Albaquerque, NM, June, 2002.

Combining SXT and CDS Observations to Investigate Coronal Abundances
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting. Proceedings of the conference held September 17-20, 2001, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Isothermal Approximation vs. Differential Emission Measure Analysis: How Hot are Hot Loops?
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting. Proceedings of the conference held September 17-20, 2001, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii