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<ri:Resource created="2021-11-25T16:09:48Z" status="active" updated="2025-05-19T09:50:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>Quiet-Sun MgII h &amp; k line profiles from IRIS</title><shortName>J/ApJS/255/16</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/255/16</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22550016</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Gunar S.</name></creator><creator><name>Koza J.</name></creator><creator><name>Schwartz P.</name></creator><creator><name>Heinzel P.</name></creator><creator><name>Liu W.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2022-03-10T07:39:52Z</date><date role="Created">2021-11-25T16:09:48Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>the-sun</subject><subject>ultraviolet-astronomy</subject><description>We derived high-precision reference profiles of the MgII h and k lines that represent the quiet Sun during a minimum of the solar activity. To do so, we used the broad catalog of full-Sun mosaics obtained by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). To minimize the influence of the local variations due to the on-disk solar features and to achieve low levels of uncertainties, we used 12 IRIS full-Sun mosaics without sunspots or other significant signs of solar activity. These mosaics were obtained between 2019 April and 2020 September in the near-ultraviolet spectral range. In this paper, we present the disk-averaged reference profiles of MgII h and MgII k lines, together with a series of reference profiles spanning the distance between the disk center and the solar limb. These series of profiles offer a detailed representation of the center-to-limb variation of both MgII h and MgII k lines. The reference MgII h and k line profiles provided in this paper can be used as the incident radiation boundary condition for radiative-transfer modeling of prominences, spicules, and other coronal and chromospheric structures.</description><source format="bibcode">2021ApJS..255...16G</source><referenceURL>https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/255/16</referenceURL><type>Catalog</type><contentLevel>Research</contentLevel><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP">TAP VizieR generic service</relatedResource></relationship><relationship><relationshipType>related-to</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/423/1109">J/A+A/423/1109 : Center-to-limb variation of quiet Sun (Allende+, 2004)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/432/1063">J/A+A/432/1063 : Analysis of inner solar corona in EUV (Lanzafame+, 2005)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/213/11">J/ApJS/213/11 : UV spectrum of the quiet Sun above the limb (Warren+, 2014)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/624/A36">J/A+A/624/A36 : EUV irradiances of the quiet Sun (Del Zanna, 2019)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/644/A109">J/A+A/644/A109 : Quiet-sun hydrogen Lyman-alpha line profile (Gunar+, 2020)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/897/L10">J/ApJ/897/L10 : Disturbance storm time index (Hayakawa+, 2020)</relatedResource><relatedResource>http://iris.lmsal.com/mosaic.html : IRIS full-disk mosaics data</relatedResource></relationship></content><rights>https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html</rights><capability><interface xsi:type="vr:WebBrowser"><accessURL use="full">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/255/16</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/255/16</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/255/16</mirrorURL></interface></capability><capability><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP"><accessURL use="base">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/255/16</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/255/16</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/255/16</mirrorURL><queryType>GET</queryType><resultType>text/xml+votable</resultType></interface></capability><capability standardID="ivo://ivoa.net/std/TAP#aux"><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP" role="std"><accessURL use="base">https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap</accessURL></interface></capability><coverage><footprint ivo-id="ivo://ivoa.net/std/moc"/><waveband>UV</waveband></coverage><tableset><schema><name>default</name><table><name>J/ApJS/255/16/table3</name><description>MgII k reference profiles in individual zones a-j</description><column><name>recno</name><description>Record number assigned by the VizieR team. 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