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Understanding coronal heating and solar wind acceleration: Case for in situ near-Sun measurements by McComas, D. J., Velli, M., Lewis, W. S., Acton, L. W., Balat-Pichelin, M., Bothmer, V., Dirling Jr, R. B., Feldman, W. C., Gloeckler, G., Habbal, S. R., Hassler, D. M., Mann, I., Matthaeus, W. H., McNutt Jr, R. L., Mewaldt, R. A., Murphy, N., Ofman, L., Sittler Jr, E. C., Smith, C. W., Zurbuchen, T. H.

“…The solar wind has been measured directly from 0.3 AU outward, and the Sun's atmosphere has been imaged from the photosphere out through the corona. These…”
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Reconnection and Field Line Shrinkage in Solar Flares by Forbes, T. G., Acton, L. W.

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Nature of the heating mechanism for the diffuse solar corona by Priest, E. R, Foley, C. R, Heyvaerts, J, Arber, T. D, Culhane, J. L, Acton, L. W

“…The temperature of the Sun's outer atmosphere (the corona) exceeds that of the solar surface by about two orders of magnitude, but the nature of the coronal…”
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A Method to Determine the Heating Mechanisms of the Solar Corona by Priest, E. R, Foley, C. R, Heyvaerts, J, Arber, T. D, Mackay, D, Culhane, J. L, Acton, L. W

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A Stable Filament Cavity with a Hot Core by Hudson, H. S, Acton, L. W, Harvey, K. L, McKenzie, D. E

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Physical Structure of a Coronal Streamer in the Closed-Field Region as Observed from UVCS/SOHO and SXT/Yohkoh by Li, J, Raymond, J. C, Acton, L. W, Kohl, J. L, Romoli, M, Noci, G, Naletto, G

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A Method for Characterizing Rotation Rates in the Soft X-Ray Corona by Weber, MA, Acton, L W, Alexander, D, Kubo, S, Hara, H

“…Differential rotation rates of soft X-ray features in the solar corona are quantified by a method of harmonic filtering using the Lomb-Scargle periodogram…”
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Coronal Heating and the Vertical Temperature Structure of the Quiet Corona by Wheatland, M. S, Sturrock, P. A, Acton, L. W

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Global Solar Corona Revealed by Time Series Observations by Li, Jing, Kuhn, J, LaBonte, B, Raymond, J. C, Acton, L. W

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The transition region and coronal explorer by Handy, B N, Acton, L W, Kankelborg, C C, Wolfson, C J, Akin, D J, Bruner, ME, Caravalho, R, Catura, R C, Chevalier, R, Duncan, D W, Edwards, C G, Feinstein, C N, Freeland, S L, Friedlaender, F M, Hoffmann, CH, Hurlburt, N E, Jurcevich, B K, Katz, N L, Kelly, G A, Lemen, J R, Levay, M, Lindgren, R W, Mathur, D P, Meyer, S B, Morrison, S J, Morrison, MD, Nightingale, R W, Pope, T P, Rehse, R A, Schrijver, C J, Shine, R A, Shing, L, Strong, K T, Tarbell, T D, Title, A M, Torgerson, D D, Golub, L, Bookbinder, JA, Caldwell, D, Cheimets, P N, Davis, W N, Deluca, EE, McMullen, R A, Warren, H P, Amato, D, Fisher, R, Maldonado, H, Parkinson, C

“…The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) satellite, launched 2 April 1998, is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) that images the solar photosphere,…”
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Yokhoh Soft X-Ray Telescope Images of the Diffuse Solar Corona by Sturrock, P. A, Wheatland, M. S, Acton, L. W

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Rapid sunspot motion during a major solar flare by ANWAR, B, ACTON, L. W, HUDSON, H. S, MAKITA, M, TSUNETA, S, MCCLYMONT, A.N

“…A major solar flare on 15 November, 1991 produced a striking perturbation in the position and shape of the sunspot related most closely to the flare. We have…”
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Solar origin of the 26-day periodicity observed by Ulysses by Bai, T., Hoeksema, J. T., Weber, M., Acton, L. W.

“…The Ulysses spacecraft discovered that the interplanetary magnetic sector structure went through a major restructuring in mid‐1992. The observed recurrence…”
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The EUV Unresolved Corona by Cirtain, Jonathan, Martens, PCH, Acton, L W, Weber, Mark

“…The unresolved corona for three active regions (ARs) above the solar limb is investigated. Intensities measured for ions formed above 1 MK are presented as a…”
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A Long-Duration Solar Flare with Mass Ejection and Global Consequences by Hudson, H. S., Acton, L. W., Freeland, S. L.

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X-Ray Photographs of a Solar Active Region with a Multilayer Telescope at Normal Incidence by Underwood, J. H., Bruner, M. E., Haisch, B. M., Brown, W. A., Acton, L. W.

“…An astronomical photograph was obtained with a multilayer x-ray telescope. A 4-centimeter tungsten-carbon multilayer mirror was flown as part of an…”
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Impulsive phase of flares in soft X-ray emission by Antonucci, E., Gabriel, A. H., Acton, L. W., Culhane, J. L., Doyle, J. G., Leibacher, J. W., Machado, M. E., Orwig, L. E., Rapley, C. G.

“…Observations made by using the bent crystal spectrometer instrument on the Solar Maximum Mission show that turbulence and blue-shifted motions are…”
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Solar-A reformatted data files and observing log by Morrison, M. D., Lemen, J. R., Acton, L. W., Bentley, R. D., Kosugi, T., Tsuneta, S., Ogawara, Y., Watanabe, T.

“…An overview is presented of the Solar-A telemetry data files which are to be created and the format and organization which the files are to use. The…”
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Jovian X-ray emission from solar X-ray scattering by Maurellis, Ahilleas N., Cravens, Thomas E., Gladstone, G. Randall, Waite, J. Hunter, Acton, Loren W.

“…Soft x‐ray emissions with brightnesses of about 0.01–0.2 Rayleighs have been observed from both the equatorial and auroral regions of Jupiter. It has been…”
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Deriving solar X ray irradiance from Yohkoh observations by Acton, Loren W., Weston, David C., Bruner, Marilyn E.

“…The soft X ray telescope (SXT) on Yohkoh produces calibrated images which are used to derive X ray irradiance and coronal temperature. In this paper we compute…”
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