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Solar activity plays a quintessential role in influencing the interplanetary medium and space-weather around the Earth. Remote sensing instruments onboard heliophysics space missions provide a pool of information about the Sun's activity…

Low-amplitude Doppler-shift oscillations have been observed in coronal emission lines in a number of active regions with the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode satellite. Both standing and propagating waves have been detected and…

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Measurements of the ionized Ca II K line are one of the major resources for long-term studies of solar and stellar activity. They also play a critical role in many studies related to solar irradiance variability, particularly as a…

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Plasma composition measurements are a vital tool for the success of current and future solar missions, but density and temperature insensitive spectroscopic diagnostic ratios are sparse, and their underlying accuracy in determining the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 David H. Brooks , Harry P. Warren , Deborah Baker , Sarah A. Matthews , Stephanie L. Yardley

The reliability of quiet Sun magnetic field diagnostics based on the \ion{Fe}{1} lines at 6302 \AA has been questioned by recent work. We present here the results of a thorough study of high-resolution multi-line observations taken with the…

The ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) presented in early issues of the Messenger, and with up-to-date information on the ongoing observations available on the Web (http://www.eso.org/eis), is a concerted effort by ESO and the Member State community…

The O I 135.56 nm line is covered by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer mission which studies how the solar atmosphere is energized. We here study the formation and diagnostic potential of this line by means…

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This paper presents a detailed study of chromospheric evaporation using the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode in conjunction with HXR observations from RHESSI. The advanced capabilities of EIS were used to measure Doppler shifts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryan O. Milligan , Brian R. Dennis

Using Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) spectra recorded daily at Sun center from the end of 2006 to early 2011, we studied the long-term evolution of the quiet corona. The light curves of the higher temperature emission lines exhibit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-17 S. Kamio , J. T. Mariska

From Doppler velocity maps of active regions constructed from spectra obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode spacecraft we observe large areas of outflow (20-50 km/s) that can persist for at least a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. A. Doschek , H. P. Warren , J. T. Mariska , K. Muglach , J. L. Culhane , H. Hara , T Watanabe

The Extreme ultraviolet SpectroPhotometer (ESP) is one of five channels of the Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The ESP channel design is based on a highly stable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Leonid Didkovsky , Darrell Judge , Seth Wieman , Tom Woods , Andrew Jones

The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the Near Infra-Red (NIR) wavelength range. It has been flown at two total solar eclipses, in 2017 and 2019. The wavelength range of the much…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 G. Del Zanna , J. Samra , A. Monaghan , C. Madsen , P. Bryans , E. DeLuca , H. Mason , B. Berkey , A. de Wijn , Y. Rivera

We benchmark new atomic data against a selection of irradiances obtained from medium-resolution quiet Sun spectra in the EUV, from 60 to 1040 \AA. We use as a baseline the irradiances measured during solar minimum on 2008 April 14 by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 G. Del Zanna

Solar physicists routinely utilize observations of Ar-like Fe IX and Cl-like Fe X emission to study a variety of solar structures. However, unidentified lines exist in the Fe IX and Fe X spectra, greatly impeding the spectroscopic…

We present measurements of the large-scale (~40 comoving Mpc) effective optical depth of HeII Ly$\alpha$ absorption, $\tau_{\rm eff}$, at 2.54<z<3.86 toward 16 HeII-transparent quasars observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Gábor Worseck , Frederick B. Davies , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska

We present a study of the differential emission measure (DEM) of a `quiet Sun' area observed in the extreme ultraviolet at normal incidence by the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on the SOHO spacecraft. The data used for this work…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Lanzafame , D. H. Brooks , J. Lang

The fine calibration of the ISO-SWS detectors (Infrared Space Observatory - Short Wavelength Spectrometer) has proven to be a delicate problem. We therefore present a detailed spectroscopic study in the 2.38 -- 12 micron wavelength range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Decin , B. Vandenbussche , C. Waelkens , K. Eriksson , B. Gustafsson , B. Plez , A. J. Sauval , K. Hinkle

Variations in the propagation of globally-propagating disturbances (commonly called "EIT waves") through the low solar corona offer a unique opportunity to probe the plasma parameters of the solar atmosphere. Here, high-cadence observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 David M. Long , David R. Williams , Stéphane Régnier , Louise K. Harra

An analysis of noise attenuation during eighty solar flares between 2013 and 2017 was carried out at frequencies 8-20 MHz using thirty-four SuperDARN radars and the EKB ISTP SB RAS radar. The attenuation was determined on the basis of noise…