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Solar Observations with a New Earth-Orbiting Coronagraph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

N. R. Sheeley Jr. ,
R. A. Howard ,
D. J. Michels  and
M. J. Koomen
N. R. Sheeley Jr.
Affiliation:
E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D. C. 20375
R. A. Howard
Affiliation:
E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D. C. 20375
D. J. Michels
Affiliation:
E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D. C. 20375
M. J. Koomen
Affiliation:
E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D. C. 20375

Abstract

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Since March 28, 1979, the Solwind coronagraph has been observing the Sun's white light corona (2.6 − 10.0 R⊙) routinely with a spatial resolution of approximately 1.25 arc min and a repetition rate of 10 minutes during the one-hour sunlit portion of each 97-minute satellite orbital period. These are the first satellite observations of the outer corona near the peak of a sunspot cycle when coronal transients and high-latitude streamers are common.

Type
Part I. The Life History of Coronal Structures and Fields
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 91: Solar and Interplanetary Dynamics , 1980 , pp. 55 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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