Abstract
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter space mission has been successfully launched in February 2020. Onboard is the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI), which has two telescopes, a High Resolution Telescope (HRT) and the Full Disc Telescope (FDT). The instrument is designed to infer the photospheric magnetic field and line-of-sight velocity through differential imaging of the polarised light emitted by the Sun. It calculates the full Stokes vector at 6 wavelength positions at the Fe I 617.3nm absorption line. Due to telemetry constraints, the instrument nominally processes these Stokes profiles onboard, however when telemetry is available, the raw images are downlinked and reduced on ground. Here the architecture of the on-ground pipeline for HRT is presented, which also offers additional corrections not currently available on board the instrument. The pipeline can reduce raw images to the full Stokes vector with a polarimetric sensitivity of 10-3 · Ic or better.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VII |
Editors | Jorge Ibsen, Gianluca Chiozzi |
Publisher | SPIE |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-5106-5359-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022 Conference number: 7 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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Volume | 12189 |
ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1996-756X |
Conference
Conference | Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 17/07/2022 → 21/07/2022 |
Keywords
- data pipelines
- data processing
- image processing
- Solar Orbiter
- solar physics
- space observatory
- spectropolarimetry