Summarizing Coronal Spectra
Hyunsook and I have preliminary findings (work done with the help of the X-Atlas group) on the efficacy of using spectral proxies to classify low-mass coronal sources, put up as a poster at the XGratings workshop. The workshop has a “poster haiku” session, where one may summarize a poster in a single transparency and speak on it for a couple of minutes. I cannot count syllables, so I wrote a limerick instead:
- For simple models, hardness ratios make for a useful grid;
- But to describe hi-res coronal spectra they’re quite horrid.
- So we went to find, with line ratios as witness,
- Patterns and trends in a high-dimensional mess;
- And extract stellar subclasses from the morass where it is hid.
Update: The poster is at CHASC.
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