The electron density and temperature key properties
of the neutral-magnetized plasma in the solar corona, which are predicted
with a novel model, provide an interesting window along the whole solar cycle.
In this work, we test the quantitative
validity of the model and prove that the Coronal Density andTemperature (CODET) is reliable. Furthermore, this
work contrasts the CODET model results with alternative observational
remote and in-situ datasets during the simplest conditions of the quiescent
corona near the solar minimum. This successful outcome/validation of the CODET
model allowed a good qualitative density and temperature
retrieval in the solar corona covering a large portion of time interval
from solar cycles 23 and 24.
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