Abstract
Near IR total eclipse measurements have provided clear evidence during both 2nd and 3rd contacts for a limb extension of about 125 km for wavelengths in the range containing the CO fundamental vibration-rotation bands between 4.3 and 5.5 μm, when compared to the limb at nearby shorter wavelengths. This is interpreted as a “flash” spectrum in the CO lines, with the above extension representing the outer level of the CO emission layer. This height can be compared to the τCO = 1.0 level incorporated into recent representative atmospheric models (Ayres and Wiedemann, 1989) which is 90 km above the visible limb for a semi-empirical “hot chromosphere” model (Avrett, 1985) and 220 km for a “cool” radiative equilibrium model based upon work by Anderson (1989).
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