Solar Orbiter Core Science With the SPICE Spectral Imager
Abstract
SPICE is a novel spectral imager designed for deployment on Solar Orbiter, and directly addresses the core science using high level science data products including Dopplergrams, "FIPograms" and "QMograms" to correlate solar wind source regions at the surface of the Sun with in situ measurements made simultaneously on board Solar Orbiter.
SPICE data are critical to the key motivating questions for the Solar Orbiter mission, and the data products and observing plans draw heavily from lessons learned in the SOHO mission to yield accessible data products that can be compared easily with other types of solar data. We describe key questions that Solar Orbiter will address, and how SPICE data products enable answering them.- Publication:
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AAS/Solar Physics Division Abstracts #42
- Pub Date:
- May 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011SPD....42.1503D