Friends,

 

     The EM loci technique is frequently used to access whether a plasma is isothermal.  The attached paper addresses the uncertainty in this technique and proposes a way to determine the range of thermal distribution widths that are consistent with a set of emission line data.

 

Cheers,

Jim

 

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James A. Klimchuk

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Solar Physics Lab, Code 671

Bldg. 21, Rm. 158

Greenbelt, MD  20771

USA

 

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