Publication detail

Probing the Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona with Lunar Solar Occultation Observations

HABBAL, S. MORGAN, H. DRUCKMÜLLER, M. DING, A. COOPER, J. DAW, A. SITTLER, E.

Original Title

Probing the Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona with Lunar Solar Occultation Observations

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Imaging and spectroscopy of the solar corona, coupled with polarimetry, are the only tools available at present to capture signatures of physical rocesses responsible for coronal heating and solar wind acceleration within the first few solar radii above the solar limb. With the recent advent of mproved detector technology and image processing techniques, broad-band white light and narrow-band multi-wavelength observations of coronal forbidden lines, made during total solar eclipses, have started to yield new views about the thermodynamic and magnetic properties of coronal tructures. This paper outlines these unique capabilities, which until present, have been feasible primarily with observations during natural total solar clipses. This work also draws attention to the exciting possibility of greatly increasing the frequency and duration of solar eclipse observations with Moon orbiting observatories utilizing lunar limb occultation of the solar disk for coronal measurements.

Keywords

Corona , Eclipse, Solar wind

Authors

HABBAL, S.; MORGAN, H.; DRUCKMÜLLER, M.; DING, A.; COOPER, J.; DAW, A.; SITTLER, E.

RIV year

2013

Released

1. 7. 2013

Publisher

Springer

ISBN

0038-0938

Periodical

Solar Physics

Year of study

2013 (285)

Number

1-2

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

9

Pages to

24

Pages count

16

BibTex

@article{BUT94444,
  author="Shadia Rifai {Habbal} and Huw {Morgan} and Miloslav {Druckmüller} and Adalbert {Ding} and John. F. {Cooper} and Adrian {Daw} and Edward C. {Sittler}",
  title="Probing the Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona with Lunar Solar Occultation Observations",
  journal="Solar Physics",
  year="2013",
  volume="2013 (285)",
  number="1-2",
  pages="9--24",
  issn="0038-0938"
}