Properties of Solar Coronal Active Regions Deduced from X-Ray Line Spectra

Spectra from the SOLEX B RAP spectrometer have been used to analyze the temperature and density structure of over 100 nonflaring solar active regions. Density measurements that used the R ratio of O VII indicated that few regions have electron densities higher than ≡3×10⁹cm^-3. In a few cases, flare-productive regions had measured densities approximately twice this high. Temperature-sensitive line ratios in the helium-like ions O VII, Ne IX, and Mg XI were used to decude the general properties of the differential emission-measure function B(T) for nonflaring regions. B(T) falls off with increasing temperature above a peak temperature that is almost always lower than T_m(O VII) = 1.8×10⁶K.