Journal
SOLAR PHYSICS
Volume 289, Issue 11, Pages 4393-4412Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-014-0544-4
Keywords
Solar corona; Solar instrumentation; Solar imaging; Extreme ultraviolet
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- NASA's Low Cost Access to Space program
- Presidium of the RAS [22]
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The High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) was flown on a NASA sounding rocket on 11 July 2012. The goal of the Hi-C mission was to obtain high-resolution (a parts per thousand aEuro parts per thousand 0.3 -aEuro parts per thousand 0.4''), high-cadence (a parts per thousand aEuro parts per thousand 5 seconds) images of a solar active region to investigate the dynamics of solar coronal structures at small spatial scales. The instrument consists of a normal-incidence telescope with the optics coated with multilayers to reflect a narrow wavelength range around 19.3 nm (including the Fe xii 19.5-nm spectral line) and a 4096x4096 camera with a plate scale of 0.1''aEuro parts per thousand pixel(-1). The target of the Hi-C rocket flight was Active Region 11520. Hi-C obtained 37 full-frame images and 86 partial-frame images during the rocket flight. Analysis of the Hi-C data indicates the corona is structured on scales smaller than currently resolved by existing satellite missions.
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