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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