Radiometric Calibration of EUNIS-06 With Theoretical Predicted `Insensitive' Line Ratios

The Extreme-Ultraviolet Normal-Incidence Spectrograph (EUNIS) is a sounding-rocket payload that obtains imaged high-resolution spectra of solar active and quiet-Sun regions, providing information about the corona and upper transition region. EUNIS incorporates two independent, co-pointing imaging spectrographs, one covering EUV lines between 300 and 370 Å\ seen in first order (the longwave [LW] channel), and a second covering lines between 170 and 205 Å\ seen in second order (the shortwave [SW] channel). Shortly after the payload's initial successful flight on 2006 April 12, a complete end-to-end radiometric calibration of its LW bandpass was carried out at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England. Here we develop and apply a technique for deriving the absolute radiometric calibration of its SW bandpass from these direct LW results by means of density- and temperature-insensitive line intensity ratios. The first step is to use the EUNIS LW calibration to get absolute intensities for EUV lines recorded from solar positions along its LW slit during the 2006 flight. Then co-registered SOHO/CDS images taken within minutes of the flight are used to transfer these absolute values to solar locations observed by the EUNIS SW slit, spatially offset by about 1 arcmin. Finally, theoretical `insensitive' line ratios obtained from CHIANTI allow us to determine absolute intensities of emission lines within the EUNIS SW bandpass from those observed in its LW channel. A total of 29 ratios composed of 11 LW and 15 SW emission lines from Fe~X - Fe~XIII yield an instrumental response curve that matches very well to a relative calibration which relied on combining measurements of individual optical components. The second EUNIS flight, now scheduled for 2007 October 30, will make coordinated observations and provide similar calibration updates for Hinode/EIS. We will also present some preliminary results from the new observations. EUNIS is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Division through its Low Cost Access to Space Program in Solar and Heliospheric Physics.