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G. Thuillier J. Claudel D. Djafer M. Haberreiter N. Mein S. M. L. Melo W. Schmutz A. Shapiro C. I. Short S. Sofia 《Solar physics》2011,268(1):125-149
In this paper we compare observed, empirical, and modelled solar limb profiles and discuss their potential use to derive physical
properties of the solar atmosphere. The PHOENIX, SolMod3D, and COSI radiative transfer codes as well as VAL-C models are used
to calculate the solar limb shape under different assumptions. The main properties of each model are shown. The predicted
limb shape as a function of wavelength for different features on the solar disk, such as quiet Sun, sunspots, and faculae,
is investigated. These models provide overall consistent limb shapes with some discrepancies that are discussed here in terms
of differences in solar atmosphere models, opacities, and the algorithms used to derive the solar limb profile. Our analysis
confirms that the most common property of all models is limb shapes that are much steeper than what is observed, or predicted
by the available empirical models. Furthermore, we have investigated the role of the Fraunhofer lines within the spectral
domain used for the solar limb measurements. Our results show that the presence of the Fraunhofer lines significantly displaces
the limb inflection point from its position estimated assuming only the photospheric continuum. The PICARD satellite, launched
on 15 June 2010, will provide measurements of the limb shape at several wavelengths. This work shows that the precision of
these measurements allows for discrimination among the available models. 相似文献
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Recently a new version of a sodium double-band magneto-optical filter has been built in order to provide simultaneous Doppler and magnetograms using the same optical path (Cacciani, Moretti, and Rodgers, 1997; Cacciani et al., 1988, 1994). Two observing stations based on this instrument are being installed as part of the French network IRIS. One is already operational in Apple Valley, California, and the other one will be delivered shortly to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The performance of the instrument is such as to detect the l = 0 mode of solar oscillations from resolved images with a signal-to-noise ratio that has never been achieved before (Cacciani and Moretti, 1994). The magnetic and velocity signals are corrected for the changes that occur in the solar D-line profile in active versus non-active regions. This kind of analysis will be performed by our group in conjunction with parallel analysis of GOLF and IRIS integrated data which use the same sodium lines. 相似文献
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J. L. Bertaux E. Quémerais R. Lallement E. Kyrölä W. Schmidt T. Summanen J. P. Goutail M. Berthé J. Costa T. Holzer 《Solar physics》1997,175(2):737-770
After one year of almost flawless operation on board the SOHO spacecraft poised at L1 Lagrange point, we report the main features
of SWAN observations. SWAN is mainly dedicated to the monitoring of the latitude distribution of the solar wind by the Lα
method. Maps of sky Lα emissions were recorded througout the year. The region of maximum emission, located in the upwind hemisphere,
deviates strongly from the pattern that could be expected from a solar wind constant with latitude. It is divided into two
lobes by a depression aligned with the solar equatorial plane called the Lyα groove already noted in 1976 Prognoz data. The
north lobe is much brighter than the south lobe. These two characteristics can be explained qualitatively by an enhanced ionization
along the neutral sheet where the slow solar wind is concentrated, which results from the higher low-latitude solar wind mass
flux as measured by Ulysses. The groove is the direct imprint on the sky of the enhanced carving by the slow solar wind, at
this time of solar minimum, when the tilt angle of the neutral sheet is small. The question is still pending to predict what
will happen with the ascending phase of the solar cycle. Observations of comets are briefly mentioned, with the ability of
SWAN to monitor the H2O production of many comets. Operations of the instrument are briefly described, including some instrumental problems which
could be solved by software modifications sent to the instrument.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004979605559 相似文献
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The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope: the current state of the instrument,observations, and data 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Grechnev V.V. Lesovoi S.V. Smolkov G. Ya. Krissinel B.B. Zandanov V.G. Altyntsev A.T. Kardapolova N.N. Sergeev R.Y. Uralov A.M. Maksimov V.P. Lubyshev B.I. 《Solar physics》2003,216(1-2):239-272
The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) is one of the world's largest solar radio heliographs. It commenced operation in
1983, and since then has undergone several upgrades. The operating frequency of the SSRT is 5.7 GHz. Since 1992 the instrument
has had the capability to make one-dimensional scans with a high time resolution of 56 ms and an angular resolution of 15 arc sec.
Making one of these scans now takes 14 ms. In 1996 the capability was added to make full, two-dimensional images of the solar
disk. The SSRT is now capable of obtaining images with an angular resolution of 21 arc sec every 2 min. In this paper we describe
the main features and operation of the instrument, particularly emphasizing issues pertaining to the imaging process and factors
limiting data quality. Some of the data processing and analysis techniques are discussed. We present examples of full-disk
solar images of the quiet Sun, recorded near solar activity minimum, and images of specific structures: plages, coronal bright
points, filaments and prominences, and coronal holes. We also present some observations of dynamic phenomena, such as eruptive
prominences and solar flares, which illustrate the high-time-resolution observations that can be done with this instrument.
We compare SSRT observations at 5.7 GHz, including computed `light curves', both morphologically and quantatively, with observations
made in other spectral domains, such as 17 GHz radio images, Hα filtergrams and magnetograms, extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray
observations, and dynamic radio spectra. 相似文献
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硬X射线成像是研究太阳耀斑等爆发现象的重要手段.由于采用调制成像而非直接成像的原因, X射线图像在日面上的位置需要借助太阳指向镜提供的仪器指向的日面坐标来确定.因此,指向信息对于耀斑定位实现多波段研究,理解太阳耀斑的物理过程具有重要的科学意义.在此对两种太阳指向镜指向信息的获取算法进行了测试.结合太阳指向镜的设计方案,首先利用SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)/AIA (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly) 4500?的数据产生测试图像,其次对其进行二值化处理,分别提取日面轮廓和4个边角指定区域面积;最后分别利用最小二乘法和四象限法对太阳中心坐标进行反演.初步结果显示最小二乘法受随机噪声影响小,定位精度相对稳定约为0.25′′,并可提供四象限法解算的初值;后者的精度可以优于0.14′′,但受随机噪声影响较大.两种算法的精度都显著优于硬X射线成像仪(Hard X-ray Imager, HXI)太阳指向镜的设计要求,可为指向数据在将来科学分析中的实际应用提供参考. 相似文献
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In this paper we discuss the two mechanisms by which solar prominences on the limb can manifest themselves when observed in
coronal UV – EUV lines and in the soft X-ray continuum. These mechanisms are the absorption in the resonance continua of hydrogen
and helium on one hand and the reduction of the emissivity in a part of the coronal volume occupied by a prominence on the
other one. We briefly describe earlier observations made with SOHO/SUMER, EIT and Yohkoh/SXT. We then discuss how the instruments on the new Japanese satellite Hinode can be used for more detailed studies of prominences. We also propose some combined observations between the Hinode satellite and the SOHO/SUMER instrument. 相似文献
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N. Raj Kumar B. Raghavendra Prasad Jagdev Singh Suresh Venkata 《Experimental Astronomy》2018,45(2):219-229
The ground based observations of the coronal emission lines using a coronagraph are affected by the short duration of clear sky and varying sky transparency. These conditions do not permit to study small amplitude variations in the coronal emission reliably necessary to investigate the process or processes involved in heating the coronal plasma and dynamics of solar corona. The proposed Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) over comes these limitations and will provide continuous observation 24 h a day needed for detailed studies of solar corona and drivers for space weather predictions. VELC payload onboard India’s Aditya-L1 space mission is an internally occulted solar coronagraph for studying the temperature, velocity, density and heating of solar corona. To achieve the proposed science goals, an instrument which is capable of carrying out simultaneous imaging, spectroscopy and spectro-polarimetric observations of the solar corona close to the solar limb is required. VELC is designed with salient features of (a) Imaging solar corona at 500 nm with an angular resolution of 5 arcsec over a FOV of 1.05Ro to 3Ro (Ro:Solar radius) (b) Simultaneous multi-slit spectroscopy at 530.3 nm [Fe XIV],789.2 nm [Fe XI] and 1074.7 nm [Fe XIII] with spectral dispersion of 28mÅ, 31mÅ and 202mÅ per pixel respectively, over a FOV of 1.05Ro to 1.5Ro. (c) Multi-slit dual beam spectro-polarimetry at 1074.7 nm. All the components of instrument have been optimized in view of the scientific objectives and requirements of space payloads. In this paper we present the details of optical configuration and the expected performance of the payload. 相似文献
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Autocorrelation analysis of sunspot number, solar radio flux, and interplanetary field in the period 1967 to 1970 yields new information concerning solar atmospheric rotation. The upper chromosphere and the lower corona are rotating on the average about 5 to 8 % faster than is either the photosphere or the upper corona. In addition, short-lived features in the chromosphere and lower corona are found to rotate sometimes as much as 10% faster than relatively long-lived features at the same height. Coronal and photospheric features are found to rotate more or less synchronously. Analysis of yearly data has indicated a considerable change in rotation periods from one year to another. 相似文献
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The low frequency array (LOFAR) radiotelescope will be a powerful instrument for answering fundamental, unresolved scientific questions concerning solar system radio phenomena and related emissions from nearby stellar systems. This paper reviews the phenomena, emission mechanisms, open scientific questions, and LOFAR's capabilities. LOFAR will detect metric solar radio bursts in the corona and interplanetary medium, out to distances of order 10 solar radii, as well as Jovian radio emissions. Arguments are given that LOFAR may be sufficiently sensitive to detect stellar analoges of solar type II and III bursts, and may detect cyclotron-maser emissions from extra-solar planets. LOFAR may also aid space weather research, by passively detecting coronal mass ejections (CMEs) via scintillation and Faraday rotation effects, or by detecting radar signals bounced off CMEs and coronal density structures if a suitable solar radar is developed. 相似文献
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Irradiance variability has been monitored from space for more than two decades. Even though data come from different sources, it is well established that a temporal variability exists ≈0.1%, in phase with the solar cycle. Today, one of the best explanations for such an irradiance variability is provided by the evolution of the solar surface magnetic fields. But if some 90–95% can be reproduced, what would be the origin of the 10–5% left? Non-magnetic effects are conceivable. In this paper we will consider temporal variations of the diameter of the Sun as a possible contributor for the remaining part. Such an approach imposes strong constraints on the solar radius variability. We will show that over a solar cycle, variations of no more than 20 mas of amplitude can be considered. Such a variability – far from what is reported by observers conducting measurements by means of ground-based solar astrolabes – may explain a little part of the irradiance changes not explained by magnetic features. Further, requirements are needed that may help to reach a conclusion. Dedicated space missions are necessary (for example PICARD, GOLF-NG or SDO, scheduled for a launch around 2008); it is also proposed to reactivate SDS flights for such a purpose. 相似文献
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A new algorithm for automatic detection of prominences on the solar limb in 304 Å EUV images is presented, and results of its application to SOHO/EIT data discussed. The detection is based on the method of moments combined with a classifier analysis aimed at discriminating between limb prominences, active regions, and the quiet corona. This classifier analysis is based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Using a set of 12 moments of the radial intensity profiles, the algorithm performs well in discriminating between the above three categories of limb structures, with a misclassification rate of 7%. Pixels detected as belonging to a prominence are then used as the starting point to reconstruct the whole prominence by morphological image-processing techniques. It is planned that a catalogue of limb prominences identified in SOHO and STEREO data using this method will be made publicly available to the scientific community. 相似文献
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The discussion of the H double limb had reached the point where the question of its existence as a real solar phenomenon could not be resolved without new observations made with the Lockheed filter and the Mount Wilson spectroheliograph. A study of the instrumental profiles had indicated that there was sufficient off-band light to produce the observed inner limb step in the Mount Wilson instrument, but this analysis was not completely satisfactory because of limitations inherent in the measurement of instrument functions with a Hg-198 source. The instrumental profile work did indicate, however, that the spectral purity of the instruments in question could be substantially improved by the use of narrow-band interference filters. An experimental program was thus launched to determine the effect of such a blocking filter on the appearance of the H limb. The results of these observations with three Halle filter systems and the Mount Wilson spectroheliograph are that the inner limb completely disappears at the center of H when a blocking filter is used to reduce unwanted light, which originates at wavelengths beyond ±0.8 Å. In addition, the contrast and visibility of the chromospheric fine structure is increased by eliminating the off-band light. Thus the experiment conclusively demonstrates that the apparent inner limb is not a solar feature but is due entirely to instrumental parasitic light. 相似文献
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Richard C. Willson 《Solar physics》1980,65(1):109-109
A new cavity pyrheliometer, the active cavity radiometer type IV (ACR IV), has been developed for the measurement of total solar optical irradiance. Analysis predicts its ability to measure at the solar constant level with 0.1% uncertainty in SI units. In comparison tests ACR IVs have consistently demonstrated 0.5% higher results than the World Radiometrie Reference scale. A prototype has been tested, and a flight instrument has been developed and flown in a sounding rocket experiment to determine the solar constant. ACR IV instrumentation is being developed for flight experiments on the Spacelab 1 and Solar Maximum Missions to monitor the total solar output of optical radiation as part of a long-term program to detect variations of climatological significance.The full paper appeared in Appl. Opt.
18 (1979), 179. 相似文献
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E. L. J. Van Dessel 《Solar physics》1970,15(2):322-337
This paper mainly deals with the development of a method for the interpretation of eclipse observations in the extreme limb - lower chromosphere transition region. We compute line profiles emitted by a column of 1 cm2 cross section along the line of sight and, by integration, profiles and total (flash) intensities from a slice of 1 cm width beyond the Moon's edge, at various heights with respect to the solar limb. The solar models used are mentioned in Section 1; method and approximations are described in Section 2. Calculations have been made for some Fei lines with various equivalent widths (Table I); the results are discussed in Section 3. It appears that the method enables one to distinguish between the various models. Particularly line intensities just inside the limb are very important.We compared our computed results with some observations made by Houtgast (Section 4). The main conclusion is that a BCA-type temperature distribution alone does not agree with observations; we have to assume an excitation temperature of Holweger's type.Investigation performed at the Astronomical Institute, Utrecht; present address: Royal Belgian Observatory, 1180 Brussels. 相似文献
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A. M. Broomhall W. J. Chaplin Y. Elsworth R. New 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,397(2):793-801
Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) instruments use resonant scattering spectrometers to make unresolved Doppler velocity observations of the Sun. Unresolved measurements are not homogenous across the solar disc and so the observed data do not represent a uniform average over the entire surface. The influence on the inhomogeneity of the solar rotation and limb darkening has been considered previously and is well understood. Here, we consider a further effect that originates from the instrumentation itself. The intensity of light observed from a particular region on the solar disc is dependent on the distance between that region on the image of the solar disc formed in the instrument and the detector. The majority of BiSON instruments have two detectors positioned on opposite sides of the image of the solar disc and the observations made by each detector are weighted towards differing regions of the disc. Therefore, the visibility and amplitudes of the solar oscillations and the realization of the solar noise observed by each detector will differ. We find that the modelled bias is sensitive to many different parameters such as the width of solar absorption lines, the strength of the magnetic field in the resonant scattering spectrometer, the orientation of the Sun's rotation axis, the size of the image observed by the instrument and the optical depth in the vapour cell. We find that the modelled results best match the observations when the optical depth at the centre of the vapour cell is 0.55. The inhomogeneous weighting means that a 'velocity offset' is introduced into unresolved Doppler velocity observations of the Sun, which varies with time, and so has an impact on the long-term stability of the observations. 相似文献
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G. Giono R. Ishikawa N. Narukage R. Kano Y. Katsukawa M. Kubo S. Ishikawa T. Bando H. Hara Y. Suematsu A. Winebarger K. Kobayashi F. Auchère J. Trujillo Bueno S. Tsuneta T. Shimizu T. Sakao J. Cirtain P. Champey A. Asensio Ramos J. Štěpán L. Belluzzi R. Manso Sainz B. De Pontieu K. Ichimoto M. Carlsson R. Casini M. Goto 《Solar physics》2017,292(4):57
The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter is a sounding rocket instrument designed to measure for the first time the linear polarization of the hydrogen Lyman-\({\upalpha }\) line (121.6 nm). The instrument was successfully launched on 3 September 2015 and observations were conducted at the solar disc center and close to the limb during the five-minutes flight. In this article, the disc center observations are used to provide an in-flight calibration of the instrument spurious polarization. The derived in-flight spurious polarization is consistent with the spurious polarization levels determined during the pre-flight calibration and a statistical analysis of the polarization fluctuations from solar origin is conducted to ensure a 0.014% precision on the spurious polarization. The combination of the pre-flight and the in-flight polarization calibrations provides a complete picture of the instrument response matrix, and a proper error transfer method is used to confirm the achieved polarization accuracy. As a result, the unprecedented 0.1% polarization accuracy of the instrument in the vacuum ultraviolet is ensured by the polarization calibration. 相似文献
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The method developed and the instrument designed for detecting variations of the solar limb darkening at the atmospheric transparency window of the solar opacity minimum region of λ 1.65 μ are described. This differential technique proved to be successful in rejecting undesirable low frequency noises due to the atmosphere and to the instrument. Analysis of observations made in 1977, 1978, and 1981 indicates the persistance of global fluctuations of the IR differential, center-to-limb intensity at the wellknown 160 min period with an average amplitude of about ± 2 × 10-4 in units of the ‘average Sun’ intensity near 1.65 μm. 相似文献
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Picard SODISM, a Space Telescope to Study the Sun from the Middle Ultraviolet to the Near Infrared 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
M. Meftah J.-F. Hochedez A. Irbah A. Hauchecorne P. Boumier T. Corbard S. Turck-Chièze S. Abbaki P. Assus E. Bertran P. Bourget F. Buisson M. Chaigneau L. Damé D. Djafer C. Dufour P. Etcheto P. Ferrero M. Hersé J.-P. Marcovici M. Meissonnier F. Morand G. Poiet J.-Y. Prado C. Renaud N. Rouanet M. Rouzé D. Salabert A.-J. Vieau 《Solar physics》2014,289(3):1043-1076