THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 106:165-169, 1996 September

                INFRARED SPECTRAL ATLASES OF THE SUN FROM NOAO

                   L. WALLACE, W. LIVINGSTON, AND K. HINKLE
  National Optical Astronomy Observatories, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85732

                                      AND

                                  P. BERNATH
               Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo,
                       Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1


                                   ABSTRACT

        We have prepared a series of four solar spectral atlases.  The
     atlases illustrate the disk center photospheric spectrum from 0.7 to
     22 um and the sunspot umbral spectrum from 1.2 to 21 um.  The spectra
     were observed at high resolution (lambda/delta(lambda) ~ 300,000) with
     the Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) at the McMath-Pierce solar
     telescope on Kitt Peak.  When possible, solar observations at
     different air masses and on different days have allowed the less
     opaque telluric lines to be effectively removed from the program
     spectrum.  The solar lines have been identified by searching the
     literature on atomic and molecular laboratory spectroscopy and when
     necessary by additional laboratory spectroscopy.  Many new
     identifications have been made, including numerous SiO and hot water
     lines in the sunspot spectrum.

     Subject headings: atlases -- line: identification -- Sun: infrared --
                       sunspots