Effect of stray light correction of extreme-ultraviolet solar images in tomography
Abstract
The Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) telescope on board the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission provides extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) coronal images of the full Sun. Using time series of EUV images, the differential emission measure tomography (DEMT) technique allows the determination of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of the coronal electron density and temperature in the inner corona. EUV images are affected by stray light contamination which can be effectively removed if the point-spread function (PSF) of the instrument is well determined, as it is the case for EUVI. We show the results of a detailed analysis of the impact of EUVI stray light removal in DEMT results. To this end we analyze Carrington Rotation (CR)-2081 during the last solar minimum, characterized by a highly axisymmetric coronal structure. We find that stray light decontamination of EUVI images implies a systematic decrease of the derived electron density scale height and a systematic increase of the derived coronal base density, while its effect on the derived temperature is not systematic neither significant. We detail the results of the analysis in quantitative fashion.
- Publication:
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Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia La Plata Argentina
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017BAAA...59..145L
- Keywords:
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- Sun: corona;
- Sun: UV radiation;
- Sun: fundamental parameters;
- Sun: magnetic fields