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SECIS: The Solar Eclipse Coronal Eclipse Imaging System |
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| Authors: | Phillips KJH Read PD Gallagher PT Keenan FP Rudawy P Rompolt B Berlicki A Buczylko A Diego F Barnsley R Smartt RN Pasachoff JM Babcock BA |
| Institution: | (1) Space Science Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, , U.K.;(2) Department of Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, N. Ireland, U.K.;(3) Astronomical Institute, University of Wroc aw, Wrocaw, Poland;(4) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, U.K.;(5) JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3EA, U.K.;(6) National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak, NM, 88349, U.S.A.;(7) Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 01267, U.S.A. |
| Abstract: | The Solar Eclipse Coronal Imaging System (SECIS) is an instrument designed to search for short-period modulations in the solar corona seen either during a total eclipse or with a coronagraph. The CCD cameras used in SECIS have the capability of imaging the corona at a rate of up to 70 frames a second, with the intensities in each pixel digitised in 12-bit levels. The data are captured and stored on a modified PC. With suitable optics it is thus possible to search for fast changes or short-period wave motions in the corona that will have important implications for the coronal heating mechanism. The equipment has been successfully tested using the Evans Solar Facility coronagraph at National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak and during the 11 August 1999 eclipse at a site in north-eastern Bulgaria. The instrument is described and preliminary results are outlined. |
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