IRIS2+: A Comprehensive Database of Stratified Thermodynamic Models in the Low Solar Atmosphere

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We present the most comprehensive collection of stratified-in-optical-depth thermodynamic models of the lower solar atmosphere. This database, named IRIS2+, consists of 40,320 synthetic representative profiles (RPs) and their corresponding representative model atmospheres (RMAs). The latter result from inverting the observed RPs, which are the result of clustering multiline spectral profiles observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph in 126 active regions (ARs). Each AR was clustered in 320 RPs considering five solar features: umbra, pore or pore-like, penumbra, plage, and quiet Sun. The multiline spectral profiles contain 12 lines with encoded physical information from the top of the chromosphere to the midphotosphere. These 12 spectral lines, six chromospheric and six photospheric, were simultaneously inverted with the Stockholm Inversion Code. Therefore, the stratified-in-optical-depth low solar atmosphere models obtained in this study are better constrained than those obtained from the nonsimultaneous inversion of individual lines. Each tuple in the database contains an inverted RP, its corresponding RMA, the solar feature label where the observed RP was clustered, its heliocentric angle, and its date and time of observation. The database may be used as an inversion code for any of the lines present in the RPs, and the RMAs may be used for synthesizing spectral lines in the chromosphere and photosphere or as mean constraints for numerical models of the solar atmosphere.
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  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNG09FA40C)

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