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Hinode EIS: Updated In-flight Radiometric Calibration
Del Zanna, G.; Warren, H. P.; Weberg, M. J.
We present an update to the in-flight radiometric calibration of the Hinode Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), revising and extending our previous studies. We analyze full-spectral EIS observations of quiet Sun (QS) and active regions (ARs) from 2007 until 2022. Using CHIANTI version 10, we adjust the EIS relative effective areas for …
Coronal Densities, Temperatures, and Abundances during the 2019 Total Solar Eclipse: The Role of Multiwavelength Observations in Coronal Plasma Characterization
Del Zanna, Giulio; DeLuca, Edward; Mason, Helen +7 more
The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the near-infrared (NIR) wavelength range. It has been flown at two total solar eclipses, in 2017 and 2019. The wavelength range of the much-improved instrument on the second flight (2019 July 2) was shifted to cover two density-sensitive lines from S XI. I…
Slow Solar Wind Connection Science during Solar Orbiter's First Close Perihelion Passage
D'Amicis, Raffaella; Teriaca, Luca; Hirzberger, Johann +76 more
The Slow Solar Wind Connection Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (Slow Wind SOOP) was developed to utilize the extensive suite of remote-sensing and in situ instruments on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission to answer significant outstanding questions regarding the origin and formation of the slow solar wind. The Slow Wind SOOP was designed to lin…
Large-scale Spatial Cross-calibration of Hinode/SOT-SP and SDO/HMI
Liu, Yang; Antiochos, Spiro K.; Leka, K. D. +7 more
We investigate the cross-calibration of the Hinode/Solar Optical Telescope-Spectro-Polarimeter (SOT-SP) and Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) instrument metadata, specifically the correspondence of the scaling and pointing information. Accurate calibration of these data sets gives the correspondence needed by in…
Nonequilibrium Ionization Effects on Synthetic Spectra in the AWSoM Solar Corona
Landi, E.; van der Holst, B.; Szente, J.
In this work, we combined AWSoM's nonequilibrium ionization (NEI) calculations from Szente et al. with the synthetic spectral computations of SPECTRUM to predict nonequilibrium line intensities across the entire domain of the AWSoM 3D global model. We find that the resulting spectra are strongly affected by nonequilibrium effects in the fast-wind …
Universal Scaling Laws for Solar and Stellar Atmospheric Heating: Catalog of Power-law Index between Solar Activity Proxies and Various Spectral Irradiances
Notsu, Yuta; Namekata, Kosuke; Toriumi, Shin +1 more
The formation of extremely hot outer atmospheres is one of the most prominent manifestations of magnetic activity common to late-type dwarf stars, including the Sun. It is widely believed that these atmospheric layers, the corona, transition region, and chromosphere, are heated by the dissipation of energy transported upwards from the stellar surf…
SynthIA: A Synthetic Inversion Approximation for the Stokes Vector Fusing SDO and Hinode into a Virtual Observatory
Liu, Yang; Antiochos, Spiro K.; Leka, K. D. +7 more
Both NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the JAXA/NASA Hinode mission include spectropolarimetric instruments designed to measure the photospheric magnetic field. SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) emphasizes full-disk, high-cadence, and good-spatial-resolution data acquisition while Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope Spectro-Polar…
Can We Detect Coronal Mass Ejections through Asymmetries of Sun-as-a-star Extreme-ultraviolet Spectral Line Profiles?
Chen, Yajie; Gao, Yuhang; Tian, Hui +8 more
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the largest-scale eruptive phenomena in the solar system. Associated with enormous plasma ejections and energy releases, CMEs have an important impact on the solar-terrestrial environment. Accurate predictions of the arrival times of CMEs at the Earth depend on precise measurements of their 3D velocities, which ca…
Revised Analysis of Fe VII
Young, Peter R.; Ryabtsev, Alexander N.; Kramida, Alexander
New spectrograms of multiply ionized iron have been recorded and analyzed, targeting the Fe VII spectrum. As a result, several previously unknown spectral lines and energy levels have been identified in this spectrum. These new data have been analyzed together with all previously published laboratory and astrophysical data on this spectrum. The en…
A Publicly Available Multiobservatory Data Set of an Enhanced Network Patch from the Photosphere to the Corona
Warren, Harry P.; Savage, Sabrina; Kobelski, Adam R. +3 more
New instruments sensitive to chromospheric radiation at X-ray, UV, visible, IR, and submillimeter wavelengths have become available that significantly enhance our ability to understand the bidirectional flow of energy through the chromosphere. We describe the calibration, coalignment, initial results, and public release of a new data set combining…