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Improvements in the determination of ISS Ca II K parameters
Full text linkMeasurements of the ionized Ca II K line are one of the major resources for
long-term studies of solar and stellar activity. They also play a critical role
in many studies related to solar irradiance variability, particularly as a
ground-based proxy to model the solar ultraviolet flux variation that may
influence the Earth's climate. Full disk images of the Sun in Ca II K have been
available from various observatories for more than 100 years and latter
synoptic Sun-as-a-star observations in Ca II K began in the early 1970s. One of
these instruments, the Integrated Sunlight Spectrometer (ISS) has been in
operation at Kitt Peak (Arizona) since late 2006. The ISS takes daily
observations of solar spectra in nine spectra bands, including the Ca II K and
H line s. We describe recent improvements in data reduction of Ca II K
observations, and present time variations of nine parameters derived from the
profile of this spectral line
