Cirtain, Jonathan

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What I’d like you to know about our
Solar Instrumentation
Dr. Jonathan Cirtain
Heliophysics Team Lead, MSFC
Hinode Project Scientist
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20130010197 2019-08-31T00:12:20+00:00Z
The Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Instrument 
(SUMI)
The High resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C)
The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarim
(CLASP)
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrogra
(MaGIXS)
The Solar Wind Electron Alphas and Proton (SWE
suite for Solar Probe +
Hi C (AIA) data captures the full su
8 channels
• 1 image in each channel 
20 seconds. 
• Data collected 24/7
• Spatial resolution of ~100
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Hi C
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The background images are from AIA (30.4 nm) and the foreground
images are from Hinode/SOT (Ca II)
AIA images are ~1000km resolution 
SOT images are ~150 km resolution
Cadence is basically the same between the two instruments
Hi C
i-C flight 
st results:
Launch July 11, 2012
Image on right is the AIA/SDO
the day of launch.
Box indicates the selected poi
of view for Hi-C.
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We have characterized 
the telescope MTF
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loop braiding
First postulated by 
Parker in a series of 
papers in 1977, 
braiding is a potential 
storage mechanism for 
energy in the solar 
atmosphere.
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x-point reconnection!
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