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astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Varying Calcium Abundances in Solar Flares seen by Solar Maximum Mission

Barbara Sylwester, Janusz Sylwester, Kenneth J. H. Phillips +1

We report on calcium abundance estimates during the decay phases of 194 solar X-ray flares using archived data from the Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) on Solar Maxim…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 8 cited

New Solar Flare Calcium Abundances with no Surprises: Results from the SMM Bent Crystal Spectrometer

J. Sylwester, B. Sylwester, K. J. H. Phillips +1

The calcium abundance in flare plasmas is estimated using X-ray spectra from the Solar Maximum Mission Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) during the decays of 194 flares (GOES classif…

astro-ph.SR2021

The Solar Line Emission Dopplerometer project

J. -M. Malherbe, P. Mein, F. Sayede +4

Observations of the dynamics of solar coronal structures are necessary to investigate space weather phenomena and global heating of the corona. The profiles of high temperature lin…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

Four decades of advances from MSDP to S4I and SLED imaging spectrometers

P. Mein, J. -M. Malherbe, F. Sayede +3

The Multichannel Subtractive Double Pass (MSDP) is an imaging spectroscopy technique, which allows observations of spectral line profiles over a 2D field of view with high spatial…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 4 cited

A Unique Resource for Solar Flare Diagnostic Studies: the SMM Bent Crystal Spectrometer

J. Sylwester, B. Sylwester, K. J. H. Phillips +2

The Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) on the NASA Solar Maximum Mission spacecraft observed the X-ray spectra of numerous solar flares during the periods 1980 February to November an…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 8 cited

Analysis of Quiescent Corona X-ray Spectra from SphinX during the 2009 Solar Minimum

B. Sylwester, J. Sylwester, M. Siarkowski +3

The SphinX X-ray spectrophotometer on the {\em CORONAS-PHOTON}\/ mission observed the 1~--~15\,keV X-ray spectrum of the spatially integrated solar corona during the deep minimum o…