English
Related papers

Related papers: The Airborne Infrared Spectrometer: Development, C…

200 papers

The proposed Carbon Investigation (Carbon-I) Imaging Spectrometer is designed to measure variations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. The instrument will survey the Earth from its own spacecraft at an altitude of approximately 610…

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

The Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar IGR J17591-2342 is a LMXB system that went in outburst on August 2018 and it was monitored by the NICER observatory and partially by other facilities. We aim to study how the spectral emission of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 A. Manca , A. F. Gambino , A. Sanna , G. K. Jaisawal , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , S. M. Mazzola , A. Marino , A. Anitra , E. Bozzo , A. Riggio , L. Burderi

The H{\alpha} line is an important optical line in solar observations containing the information from the photosphere to the chromosphere. To study the mechanisms of solar eruptions and the plasma dynamics in the lower atmosphere, the…

The inner regions of the solar corona from 1-2.5 Rsun are poorly sampled both from the ground and space telescopes. A solar eclipse reduces the sky scattered background intensity by a factor of about 10,000 and opens a window to view this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 M J Penn , R Baer , R Bosh , D Garrison , R Gelderman , H Hare , F Isberner , L Jensen , S Kovac , M McKay , A Mitchell , M Pierce , A Ursache , J Varsik , D Walter , Z Watson , D Young , the Citizen CATE Team

We present results from the first on-sky demonstration of a prototype astronomical integrated photonic spectrograph (IPS) using the Anglo-Australian Telescope near-infrared imaging spectrometer (IRIS2) at Siding Spring Observatory to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 N. Cvetojevic , J. S. Lawrence , S. C. Ellis , J. Bland-Hawthorn , R. Haynes , A. Horton

A new instrument was designed to take visible-light (VL) polarized brightness ($pB$) observations of the solar corona during the 14 December 2020 total solar eclipse. The instrument, called the Coronal Imaging Polarizer (CIP), consisted of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 Liam T. Edwards , Kaine A. Bunting , Brad Ramsey , Matthew Gunn , Tomos Fearn , Thomas Knight , Gabriel Domingo Muro , Huw Morgan

We report the results of polarimetric observations of the total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 from Rexburg, Idaho (USA). We use three synchronized DSLR cameras with polarization filters oriented at 0{\deg}, 60{\deg}, and 120{\deg} to…

We present first science observations taken during the commissioning activities of the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. SPICE is a high-resolution imaging spectrometer…

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one the four focal plane instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which was launched on December 25, 2021. We present the in-flight status and performance of NIRSpec's detector system…

The NISP (Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer) is one of the two Euclid instruments. It operates in the near-IR spectral region (950-2020nm) as a photometer and spectrometer. The instrument is composed of: a cold (135 K)…

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

The value of the eclipse solar radius during the 2017 August 21 total solar eclipse was estimated to be $S_{\odot} = (959.95\pm 0.05)"$ at $1\,au$ with no significant dependence on wavelength. The measurement was obtained from the analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Luca Quaglia , John Irwin , Konstantinos Emmanouilidis , Alessandro Pessi

SECIS observations of the June 2001 total solar eclipse were taken using an Fe xiv 5303 A filter. Existing software was modified and new code was developed for the reduction and analysis of these data. The observations, data reduction,…

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

Visible and near-infrared (V+NIR) emission lines were the first to be discovered in the corona, during total solar eclipses, and they continue to offer unique opportunities to study the physical properties of the corona. The most commonly…

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

The Solar Eclipse Coronal Imaging System (SECIS) is a simple and extremely fast, high-resolution imaging instrument designed for studies of the solar corona. Light from the corona (during, for example, a total solar eclipse) is reflected…

INTEGRAL is a hard X-ray/gamma-ray observatory for astrophysics (ESA) covering photon energies from 15 keV to 10 MeV. It was launched in 2002 and since then the BGO detectors of the Anti-Coincidence shield (ACS) of the SPI spectrometer have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Rosa Rodríguez-Gasén , Jürgen Kiener , Vincent Tatischeff , Nicole Vilmer , Clarisse Hamadache , Karl-Ludwig Klein

We report a solar coronal split-band type II radio burst that was observed on 2016 March 16 with the Gauribidanur Radio Spectro-Polarimeter (GRASP) in the frequency range $\approx$\,90\,-\,50 MHz, and the Gauribidanur RadioheliograPH…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anshu Kumari , R. Ramesh , C. Kathiravan , T. J. Wang , N. Gopalswamy

The Solar eruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) is a solar-gazing spectrograph scheduled to fly in the summer of 2025 on a NASA sounding rocket. Its goal is to view the solar chromosphere and transition region at a high cadence (1s)…