Air Force Solar Telescope and OSO‐6 Now Observing the Sun

By the continuous multi-line observation of the solar atmosphere, it is possible to infer the magnetic and dynamical status of the Sun. This activity is essential to identify the possible precursors of space weather events, such as flare or coronal mass ejections. We describe the design and assembly of TSST (Tor Vergata Synoptic Solar Telescope), a robotic synoptic telescope currently composed of two main full-disk instruments, a Hα telescope and a Potassium (KI D1) magneto-optical filter (MOF)-based telescope operating at 769.9 nm. TSST is designed to be later upgraded with a second MOF channel. This paper describes the TSST concepts and presents the first light observation carried out in February 2020. We show that TSST is a low-cost robotic facility able to achieve the necessary data for the study of precursors of space weather events (using the magnetic and velocity maps by the MOF telescope) and fast flare detection (by the Hα telescope) to support Space Weather investigation and services.

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The Lowell Observatory Solar Telescope: observing the sun as an exoplanet host star with the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph

Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII ◽

10.1117/12.2560298 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Joe Llama

Keyword(s):

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun

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Caistor, and a Comment

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00003240 ◽

1929 ◽

Vol 3 (10) ◽

pp. 182-187 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

R. E. M. Wheeler

Keyword(s):

Heat Wave ◽

Air Force ◽

The Sun ◽

Royal Air Force ◽

Main Street ◽

Single Plate

So Caistor-by-Norwich is to be excavated. It has long been known that in the 30-acre field adjoining the little church of St. Edmund a ghost of the Roman town shows dimly from time to time as a net-work of lines in the sun-dried corn. Last year on the 20th of July, during the midsummer heat-wave, a Royal Air Force aeroplane, flying at a height of 2400 feet over the ripening barley, took a series of photographs which were first published (as a single plate) in the Times of 4th March 1929. These photographs show, within the circuit of the existing Roman town-walls, the main street-plan of Venta Icenorum. With them appeared an appeal for funds for the purpose of excavation.

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LOCNES: A solar telescope to study the Sun-as-a-star activity in the near infrared

Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII ◽

10.1117/12.2562231 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Riccardo U. Claudi ◽

Adriano Ghedina ◽

Emanuele Pace ◽

Anna Maria Di Giorgio ◽

Valentina D'Orazi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Near Infrared ◽

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun ◽

Star Activity

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6. The future of solar physics

The Sun: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780198832690.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 149-154

Author(s):

Philip Judge

Keyword(s):

Solar Wind ◽

Magnetic Fields ◽

Coronal Mass Ejections ◽

Solar Physics ◽

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun ◽

New Era ◽

The Future ◽

To Come ◽

Orbiter Mission

Solar physics is a historically data-starved science, but about to becomes less so. ‘The future of solar physics’ looks at new facilities, either online or about to come online, such as the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on Maui. This aims to see, through measurements of coronal magnetic fields and plasma, how the Sun’s magnetic fields generate flares, coronal mass ejections, and the solar wind. Other major missions include NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Solar Orbiter mission, spacecraft intended to orbit the Sun in new ways and from different viewpoints on Earth. Supported by increasingly powerful computers, these missions are ushering in a new era.

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The Design and Performance of the Gondola Pointing System for the Sunrise II Balloon-Borne Stratospheric Solar Observatory

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation ◽

10.1142/s2251171717400074 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 06 (02) ◽

pp. 1740007 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Lecinski ◽

G. Card ◽

M. Knölker ◽

B. Hardy

Keyword(s):

Continuous Time ◽

Digital Filters ◽

Solar Observatory ◽

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun ◽

Sun Sensor ◽

Convective Processes ◽

Time Periods ◽

And Performance ◽

Better Than

With its 1[Formula: see text]m aperture, the Sunrise Balloon-Borne Stratospheric Solar Observatory was the largest space-based solar telescope. It was designed to study the magneto-convective processes of the sun at resolutions higher than 100[Formula: see text]km and the payload took data during a flight from June 12 to June 17, 2013. To achieve its science requirements, the telescope had to point to an accuracy of 26[Formula: see text] for extended periods of time. Pointing of the instrument was effected by the Sunrise Pointing System (PS). The PS used measurements provided by a Lockheed Intermediate Sun Sensor (LISS) and passed the data through a cascade of up to four digital filters to calculate the best voltages to drive the azimuthal and elevation motors. All filter settings could be modified in flight to adapt to changing conditions. Using this design, the PS met its requirements, pointing the instrument with an accuracy better than 26[Formula: see text] for 60% of the flight and for continuous time periods of up to 99[Formula: see text]min. In this paper, we detail the design and performance of the PS during the 2013 flight.

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Revisiting the building blocks of solar magnetic fields by GREGOR

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s174392131900989x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (S354) ◽

pp. 38-41

Author(s):

Dominik Utz ◽

Christoph Kuckein ◽

Jose Iván Campos Rozo ◽

Sergio Javier González Manrique ◽

Horst Balthasar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Magnetic Fields ◽

Active Regions ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun ◽

Solar Magnetic Fields ◽

Crucial Importance ◽

Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽

Wide Range ◽

Formation And Evolution

AbstractThe Sun is our dynamic host star due to its magnetic fields causing plentiful of activity in its atmosphere. From high energetic flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) to lower energetic phenomena such as jets and fibrils. Thus, it is of crucial importance to learn about formation and evolution of solar magnetic fields. These fields cover a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, starting on the larger end with active regions harbouring complex sunspots, via isolated pores, down to the smallest yet resolved elements – so-called magnetic bright points (MBPs). Here, we revisit the various manifestations of solar magnetic fields by the largest European solar telescope in operation, the 1.5-meter GREGOR telescope. We show images from the High-resolution Fast Imager (HiFI) and spectropolarimetric data from the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS). Besides, we outline resolved convective features inside the larger structures – so-called light-bridges occurring on large to mid-sized scales.

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Study on Thermal Analysis of Main Mirror in Space Solar Telescope

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.328-330.300 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 328-330 ◽

pp. 300-304 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rong Li ◽

Hu Li Shi ◽

Zhi Ping Chen

Keyword(s):

Thermal Analysis ◽

Temperature Field ◽

Thermal Control ◽

Thermal Design ◽

Solar Observation ◽

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun ◽

Analysis Software ◽

Primary Mirror ◽

Space Solar Telescope

The proposed Chinese Space Solar Telescope (SST) is the first large aperture space telescope in China designed to observe the sun. With an effective aperture of Φ1m, the primary mirror faces the sun directly, which receives more than 1000W heat that will lead to unacceptable thermal distortion in such severe thermal condition. Therefore, the temperature field of SST, which is changing with its orbital position, is critical in its design. In this paper, an analysis of the thermal flux in the SST is presented firstly. Further more, the heat flux of orbit is calculated with the thermal softerware NEVADA (Net Energy Verification And Determination Analyzer) according to the orbit parameters of SST. The thermal design software SINDA/G (System Improved Numerical Differencing Analyzer/Gaski), the radiation analysis software NEVADA and the finite element analysis software MSC.Patran are used to simulate the temperature field of the SST. In the end, the temperature distribution of the primary mirror is calculated. The temperature level of the primary mirror indicates that the system can achieve high spatial resolution with 0.1″~0.15″. It also means that the thermal control design is effective. The optical requirements to the SST thermal control are met. The thoughts and methods of the thermal analysis are also useful for similar optical telescopes designed for solar observation.

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The Lyman-α Solar Telescope (LST) for the ASO-S mission

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921316000533 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (S320) ◽

pp. 436-438 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hui Li

Keyword(s):

Spatial Resolution ◽

White Light ◽

Solar Flares ◽

Solar Radius ◽

Solar Observatory ◽

Disk Center ◽

Field Of View ◽

Solar Telescope ◽

The Sun ◽

Full Disk

AbstractThe Lyman-α (Lyα) Solar Telescope (LST) is one of the payloads for the proposed Space-Borne Advanced Solar Observatory (ASO-S). LST consists of a Solar Disk Imager (SDI) with a field-of-view (FOV) of 1.2 R⊙ (R⊙ = solar radius), a Solar Corona Imager (SCI) with an FOV of 1.1 - 2.5 R⊙, and a full-disk White-light Solar Telescope (WST) with the same FOV as the SDI, which also serves as the guiding telescope. The SCI is designed to work in the Lyα (121.6 nm) waveband and white-light (for polarization brightness observation), while the SDI will work in the Lyα waveband only. The WST works in both visible (for guide) and ultraviolet (for science) broadband. The LST will observe the Sun from disk-center up to 2.5 R⊙ for both solar flares and coronal mass ejections with high tempo-spatial resolution

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Bicycles, Airplanes and Peter Pans: Flying Scenes in Steven Spielberg's Films

CINEJ Cinema Journal ◽

10.5195/cinej.2014.111 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 103-119

Author(s):

Emilio Audissino

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

The Sun ◽

Peter Pan ◽

Central Case ◽

War Stories

In Steven Spielberg's cinema the flight is a recurring theme. Flying scenes can be sorted into two classes: those involving a realistic flight – by aircraft – and those involving a magical flight – by supernatural powers. The realistic flight is influenced by the war stories of Spielberg's father – a radio man in U.S. Air-force during WWII – and it is featured in such films as Empire of the Sun (1987), Always (1989), and 1941 (1979). The magical flight is influenced by James M. Barries' character Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy, 1911), which is quoted directly in E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) and, above all, in Hook (1991), which is a sequel to Barrie's story. These two types of flying scenes are analysed as to their meanings, compared to the models that influenced them, and surveyed as to their evolution across Spielberg's films. A central case study is the episode The Mission from Amazing Stories (1985), in which the realistic and the magical flights overlap.

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