NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission heliospheric imager

Dennis George Socker; Russell A. Howard; Clarence M. Korendyke; George Michael Simnett; David F. Webb

doi:10.1117/12.410528

18 December 2000 NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission heliospheric imager

Dennis George Socker, Russell A. Howard, Clarence M. Korendyke, George Michael Simnett, David F. Webb

Proceedings Volume 4139, Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410528
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission will place two spacecraft into solar orbits with sufficient separation to provide remote sensing instruments with a stereoscopic view of the heliosphere extending from the lower solar corona to beyond one astronomical unit. Analysis of the stereographs returned from the two spacecraft will allow solar physicists to infer the three-dimensional structure of small and large components of the corona. The Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) suite of remote sensing instruments includes a Heliospheric Imager (HI) to view the heliosphere in the interval from 12 to 215 solar radii. The HI will obtain the first stereographic images of coronal mass ejections in interplanetary space. Of particular interest is the subset of coronal mass ejections that propagate through the heliosphere and ultimately impact the earth. This paper presents the design concept for this new wide field coronagraph.

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Dennis George Socker, Russell A. Howard, Clarence M. Korendyke, George Michael Simnett, and David F. Webb "NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission heliospheric imager", Proc. SPIE 4139, Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions, (18 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410528

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