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Date submitted: 17-dec-1996
Time variation of the strength of the artifact (upper), the approximate exposure time (middle), and the GOES flux (lower). Sorry, we didn't get the time base exactly right for GOES. The large exposure times reflect three uses of the JOP057 special table, with many long Dagwood exposures in the PFI's. For the ARS2 and ARS1 tables (at the end) the exposure level is hard to estimate for several reasons, among which is the fact that we don't get telemetry at all during the BDR overwrite intervals. However the GOES plot at the bottom shows that there was not much happening differently at those times. What to make of this? The long exposures DO NOT coincide with the build-up times of the artifact! In fact, the initial rise on 12 DEc seemed to precede any of the deep-exposure tables. It did follow a sequence of many microflares, however, which could be expected to have higher temperatures. Is the buildup related to mean photon energy? HSH, MW 17-dec-96
