The Quiet-Sun DEM Under Kappa: Diagnostic Degeneracy and the Failure of the Conductive Closure

arXiv:2606.18944 · astro-ph.SR, physics.plasm-ph, physics.space-ph · Submitted 2026-06-17 · Read on arXiv

Victor Edmonds

astro-ph.SR, physics.plasm-ph, physics.space-ph

Submitted: 2026-06-17

Comments: Accepted for publication in Transport Phenomena (De Gruyter Brill)

Journal ref: Transport Phenomena 1(2), 20260065 (2026)

DOI: 10.1515/tp-2026-0065

Code: https://github.com/Final-Stop-Consulting/kappa-dem-inversion

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Degeneracy — 23× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Core — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Abundance — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Regularization — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Active Regions — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Self-consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Atmospheric Imaging Assembly — 2× in this paper
Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Solar Dynamics Observatory — 2× in this paper
Inverse Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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