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The PHOT (Portable High-Speed Occultation Telescope) systems were developed for the specific purpose of observing stellar occultations by solar system objects. Stellar occultations have unique observing constraints: they may only be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. F. Young , L. A. Young , C. B. Olkin , K. Shoemaker , R. G. French , J. Regester , M. W. Buie

We present in this reference paper an instrumental project dedicated to the monitoring of solar activity during solar cycle 25. It concerns the survey of fast evolving chromospheric events implied in Space Weather, such as flares, coronal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Jean-Marie Malherbe , Thierry Corbard , Gaële Barbary , Frédéric Morand , Claude Collin , Daniel Crussaire , Florence Guitton

Understanding and monitoring the complex and dynamic processes of the Sun is important for a number of human activities on Earth and in space. For this reason, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been continuously monitoring the…

The broadband analog-digital heliograph based on the UTR-2 radio telescope is described in detail. This device operates by employing the parallel-series principle when five equi-spaced array pattern beams which scan the given radio source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-06 Aleksander Stanislavsky , Artem Koval , Aleksander Konovalenko , Eduard Abranin

Robo-AO is the first autonomous laser adaptive optics system and science instrument operating on sky. With minimal human oversight, the system robotically executes large scale surveys, monitors long-term astrophysical dynamics and…

The Rosse Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (RSTO; www.rosseobservatory.ie) was established at Birr Castle, Co. Offaly, Ireland (53 05'38.9", 7 55'12.7") in 2010 to study solar radio bursts and the response of the Earth's ionosphere and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Zucca , E. P. Carley , J. McCauley , P. T. Gallagher , C. Monstein , R. T. J. McAteer

Construction was completed during summer 2013 on the Telescope Array RAdar (TARA) bi-static radar observatory for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). TARA is co-located with the Telescope Array, the largest "conventional" cosmic ray…

A number of recent investigations have revealed that transverse waves are ubiquitous in the solar chromosphere. The vast majority of these have been reported in limb spicules and active region fibrils. We investigate long-lived, quiet Sun,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Kuridze , R. J. Morton , R. Erdélyi , G. D. Dorrian , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , F. P. Keenan

Objective: The aim of the study is to develop a novel method for improved diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in clinical or home settings, with the focus on achieving diagnostic performance comparable to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Wei Wang , Zhaoxi Chen , Wenyu Zhang , Zetao Wang , Xiang Zhao , Chenyang Li , Jian Guan , Shankai Yin , Gang Li

The rapid growth of solar data is driving changes in the typical workflow and algorithmic approach to solar data analysis. We present recently deployed tools to aid this evolution and layout the path for future development. The majority of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 Neal Hurlburt , Sam Freeland , Ryan Timmons

Recently observed oscillations in the solar atmosphere have been interpreted and modeled as magnetohydrodynamic wave modes. This has allowed the estimation of parameters that are otherwise hard to derive, such as the coronal magnetic-field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-07 Jack Ireland , Michael S. Marsh , Therese A. Kucera , Christopher A. Young

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionised the field of solar millimetre astronomy with its high angular resolution and cadence. However, with a limited field of view (FOV), targeted observations of highly dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mats Kirkaune , Sven Wedemeyer , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Tony Mroczkowski , Thomas W. Morris

Determining the mechanisms responsible for the heating of the coronal plasma and maintaining and accelerating the solar wind are long standing goals in solar physics. There is a clear need to constrain the energy, mass and momentum flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-21 R. J. Morton , E. Scullion , D. S. Bloomfield , J. A. McLaughlin , S. Regnier , S. W. McIntosh , S. Tomczyk , P. Young

LARS is an Absolute Reference Spectrograph designed for ultra-precise solar observations. The high-resolution echelle spectrograph of the Vacuum Tower Telescope is supported by a state-of-the-art laser frequency comb to calibrate the solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 J. Loehner-Boettcher , W. Schmidt , H. -P. Doerr , T. Kentischer , T. Steinmetz , R. A. Probst , R. Holzwarth

Coronal heating is a big question for modern astronomy. Daily measurement of 985 solar spectral irradiances (SSIs) at the spectral intervals 1-39 nm and 116-2416 nm during March 1 2003 to October 28 2017 is utilized to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 KJ Li , JC Xu , ZQ Yin , W Feng

The Sun Watcher with Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing (SWAP) telescope was launched on 2 November 2009 onboard the ESA PROBA2 technological mission and has acquired images of the solar corona every one - two minutes for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jean-Philippe Halain , David Berghmans , Dan Seaton , Bogdan Nicula , Anik De Groof , Marilena Mierla , Alexandra Mazzoli , Jean-Marc Defise , Pierre Rochus

The Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS) was flown on 2018 June18 on the NASA 36.336 sounding rocket flight and obtained the highest resolution to date for solar soft X-ray (SXR) spectra over a broad energy range. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 Bennet D. Schwab , Robert H. A. Sewell , Thomas N. Woods , Amir Caspi , James Paul Mason , Christopher Moore

The Southern Robotic Adaptive Optics (SRAO) instrument will bring the proven high-efficiency capabilities of Robo-AO to the Southern-Hemisphere, providing the unique capability to image with high-angular-resolution thousands of targets per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Carl Ziegler , Nicholas M. Law , Andrei Tokovinin

Context. Remote sensing of weak and small-scale solar magnetic fields is of utmost relevance for a number of important open questions in solar physics. This requires the acquisition of spectropolarimetric data with high spatial resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 F. A. Iglesias , A. Feller , K. Nagaraju , S. K. Solanki

The Solar Radiospectrograph of the University of Athens (ARTEMIS-IV) is in operation at the Thermopylae Satellite Communication Station since 1996. The observations extend from the base of the Solar Corona (650 MHz) to about 2 Solar Radii…