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Reconstruction of total solar irradiance variability as simultaneously apparent from Solar Orbiter and Solar Dynamics Observatory

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-11-02 v1

Abstract

Solar irradiance variability has been monitored almost exclusively from the Earth's perspective. {We present a method to combine the unprecedented observations of the photospheric magnetic field and continuum intensity from outside the Sun-Earth line, which is being recorded by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on board the Solar Orbiter mission (SO/PHI), with solar observations recorded from the Earth's perspective to examine the solar irradiance variability from both perspectives simultaneously.} Taking SO/PHI magnetograms and continuum intensity images from the cruise phase of the Solar Orbiter mission and concurrent observations from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/HMI) as input into the SATIRE-S model, we successfully reconstructed the total solar irradiance variability as apparent from both perspectives. In later stages of the SO mission, the orbital plane will tilt in such a way as to bring the spacecraft away from the ecliptic to heliographic latitudes of up to 3333^{\circ}. The current study sets the template for the reconstruction of solar irradiance variability as seen from outside the ecliptic from data that SO/PHI is expected to collect from such positions. {Such a reconstruction will be beneficial to factoring inclination into how the brightness variations of the Sun compare to those of other cool stars, whose rotation axes are randomly inclined.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16355,
  title  = {Reconstruction of total solar irradiance variability as simultaneously apparent from Solar Orbiter and Solar Dynamics Observatory},
  author = {K. L. Yeo and N. A. Krivova and S. K. Solanki and J. Hirzberger and D. Orozco Suárez and K. Albert and N. Albelo Jorge and T. Appourchaux and A. Alvarez-Herrero and J. Blanco Rodríguez and A. Gandorfer and P. Gutierrez-Marques and F. Kahil and M. Kolleck and J. C. del Toro Iniesta and R. Volkmer and J. Woch and B. Fiethe and I. Pérez-Grande and E. Sanchis Kilders and M. Balaguer Jiménez and L. R. Bellot Rubio and D. Calchetti and M. Carmona and A. Feller and G. Fernandez-Rico and A. Fernández-Medina and P. García Parejo and J. L. Gasent Blesa and L. Gizon and B. Grauf and K. Heerlein and A. Korpi-Lagg and T. Maue and R. Meller and A. Moreno Vacas and R. Müller and E. Nakai and W. Schmidt and J. Schou and J. Sinjan and J. Staub and H. Strecker and I. Torralbo and G. Valori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16355},
  year   = {2023}
}