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The paper presents the results obtained from the UV-spectrometer of the ‘Solar Spectrum Experiment’ during the Spacelab 1 mission in December 1983. The irradiance data concern 492 passbands, which are located between 200 and 358 nm at almost equidistant wavelengths separated by about 0.3 nm. The passbands have a well-defined, bell-shaped profile with a full width at half maximum of about 1.3 nm. The data, which have an error budget between 4 and 5%, agree closely with the spectral distributions observed by Heath (1980) and Mentall et al. (1981) and confirm that the solar irradiance and the fluxes of Sun-like stars show about the same spectral distribution down to at least 240 nm.
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Labs, D., Neckel, H., Simon, P.C. et al. Ultraviolet solar irradiance measurement from 200 to 358 nm during spacelab 1 mission. Sol Phys 107, 203–219 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152019
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