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We present an in-depth characterization of the polarimetric channel of the Large-Angle Spectrometric COronagraph LASCO-C2 onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO). The polarimetric analysis of the white-light images makes use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-21 Philippe Lamy , Antoine Llebaria , Brice Boclet , Hugo Gilardy , Michael Burtin , Olivier Floyd

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) has been developing a next-generation coronagraph (NGC) in cooperation with NASA to measure the coronal electron density, temperature, and speed simultaneously using four different filters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 K. -S. Cho , H. Yang , J. -O. Lee , S. -C. Bong , J. Kim , S. Choi , J. -Y. Park , K. -H. Cho , J. -H. Baek , Y. -H. Kim , Y. -D. Park

We present a new correlation method for deriving the F-corona intensity distribution, which is based on the analysis of the evolution of the total and polarized visible light (VL) images. We studied the one-month variation profiles of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Burtovoi , G. Naletto , S. Dolei , D. Spadaro , M. Romoli , F. Landini , Y. De Leo

We present an in-depth characterization of the polarimetric channel of the Large-Angle Spectrometric COronagraph/LASCO-C3 onboard SOHO. The polarimetric analysis of the white-light images makes use of polarized sequences composed of three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-11 Philippe Lamy , Hugo Gilardy , Antoine Llebaria , Eric Quemerais , Fabrice Ernandes

A differential emission measure (DEM) method is used to evaluate the relationship of the electron density and temperature before and after a coronal rain event during an active sun over the period from 20:10 UT on October 6 to 02:10 on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze

The flash spectrum of the solar chromosphere and corona was measured with a slitless spectrograph before, after, and during the totality of the solar eclipse, of 11 July 2010, at Easter Island, Chile. This eclipse took place at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 A. G. Voulgaris , P. S. Gaintatzis , J. H. Seiradakis , J. M. Pasachoff , T. E. Economou

We present spectropolarimetric imaging observations of the solar corona at low frequencies (80 - 240 MHz) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). These images are the first of their kind, and we introduce an algorithm to mitigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Patrick I. McCauley , Iver H. Cairns , Stephen M. White , Surajit Mondal , Emil Lenc , John Morgan , Divya Oberoi

Solar corona has been judged to consist of free electrons and highly ionized ions with extremely high temperature as a widely accepted knowledge. This view is changed by our eclipse observations. Distributions of cool matter represented by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Z. Q. Qu , H. Su , Y. Liang , Z. Xu , R. Y. Zhou

A technique is described for measuring electrical currents in the solar corona. It uses radioastronomical polarization measurements of a spatially-extended radio source viewed through the corona. The observations yield the difference in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler

Ludendorff coronal flattening index of the Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) on March 9, 2016, was calculated at various distances in solar radius. As a result, we obtained the coronal flattening index $\left(\epsilon =a+b\right)$ at a distance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Tiar Dani , Rhorom Priyatikanto , Abdul Rachman

We present coronal density profiles derived from low-frequency (80-240 MHz) imaging of three type III solar radio bursts observed at the limb by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Each event is associated with a white light streamer at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Patrick I. McCauley , Iver H. Cairns , John Morgan

We present results of a global survey of single-pixel intensity power spectra from a 12-hour time period on 26 June 2013 in a 1600x1600 pixel region from four channels of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 Karl Battams , Brendan M. Gallagher , Robert S. Weigel

We present the first remote sensing observations of the impact from a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on the thermodynamic properties of the solar corona between 1 and 3 Rs. Measurements of the Fe XI (789.2 nm) and Fe XIV (530.3 nm) emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Benjamin Boe , Shadia Habbal , Miloslav Druckmuller , Adalbert Ding , Jana Hoderova , Pavel Starha

On August 21, 2017, the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) observed the total solar eclipse at an altitude of 14 km from aboard the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft. The instrument successfully observed the five coronal…

The distribution of the coronal electron density at different distances from the Sun strongly influences the physical processes in the solar corona and is therefore a very important topic in solar physics. Most methods, including radio…

We estimated the accuracy of coronal magnetic fields derived from radio observations by comparing them to potential field calculations and the DEM measurements using EUV observations. We derived line of sight component of the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Shun Miyawaki , Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki , Daikou Shiota , Satoshi Nozawa

There has been an unfortunate gap in coronal emission line observations from space in the visible and near IR (V+NIR). Their distinct scientific advantage stems from the dominance of radiative excitation in their formation, whereby their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Shadia R Habbal , Benjamin Boe , Colby Haggerty , Adalbert Ding

We present a measurement of the abundance of Fe relative to H in the solar corona using a technique which differs from previous spectroscopic and solar wind measurements. Our method combines EUV line data from the CDS spectrometer on SOHO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. M. White , R. J. Thomas , J. W. Brosius , M. R. Kundu

Precise starlight positions near the sun were measured during the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse in order to measure their gravitational deflections. The equipment, procedures, and analysis are described in detail. A portable refractor,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Donald G. Bruns

Daily differential emission measure (DEM) distributions of the solar corona are derived from spectra obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) over a 4-year period starting in 2010 near solar minimum and continuing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Samuel J. Schonfeld , Stephen M. White , Rachel A. Hock-Mysliwiec , R. T. James McAteer