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Papers of the Yohkoh mission

A volume of the journal, Solar Physics (vol 136, 1991), features the papers on the Yohkoh instrumentation and data formats. The following 6 papers are available here with the permission from Springer Netherlands, the (current) publisher of the journal and the copyright holder of these papers.

• "The Solar-A Mission : an Overview" (Solar Physics, 136, 1-16, 1991) in PDF
  
• "The Hard X-ray Telescope for the Solar-A Mission" (Solar Physics, 136, 17-36, 1991) in PDF
  
• "The Soft X-ray Telescope for the Solar-A Mission" (Solar Physics, 136, 37-67, 1991) in PDF
  
• "The Wide Band Spectrometer on the Solar-A" (Solar Physics, 136, 69-88, 1991) in PDF
  
• "The Bragg Crystal Spectrometer for Solar-A" (Solar Physics, 136, 89-104, 1991) in PDF
  
• "Solar-A Reformatted Data Files and Observing Log" (Solar Physics, 136, 105-110, 1991) in PDF
  

The book, "The Yohkoh (Solar-A) Mission" (edited by Z. Svestka, and Y. Uchida, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991, ISBN 0-7923-1532-4) is the reprinted version of the relevant volume of the journal, and is often referred to as the "Red Book" among the former Yohkoh team members.

Papers of Yohkoh data Calibration

• "Characteristics of the Re-Calculated Yohkoh/SXT Temperature Response"
  (PDF, published as Takeda, 2011, Sol. Phys., vol 273, pp.295.)

• "On-Orbit Performance and Calibration of the Soft X-ray Telescope on Yohkoh"
  (PDF, published as Acton, 2016, Sol. Phys., vol 291, pp.643.)

• "Recalibration of the Soft X-Ray Telescope Onboard Yohkoh"
  (PDF, published as Acton, 2018, Sol. Phys., vol. 293, pp.137)