Title
A New Solar Imaging System for Observing High-Speed Eruptions: Solar Dynamics Doppler Imager (SDDI)
Date Issued
01 April 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ichimoto K.
Ishii T.
Otsuji K.
Kimura G.
Nakatani Y.
Kaneda N.
Nagata S.
UeNo S.
Hirose K.
Morita S.
Kyoto University
Publisher(s)
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
A new solar imaging system was installed at Hida Observatory to observe the dynamics of flares and filament eruptions. The system (Solar Dynamics Doppler Imager; SDDI) takes full-disk solar images with a field of view of 2520arcsec×2520arcsec at multiple wavelengths around the H α line at 6562 Å. Regular operation was started in May 2016, in which images at 73 wavelength positions spanning from Hα−9Å to Hα+9Å are obtained every 15 seconds. The large dynamic range of the line-of-sight velocity measurements (±400kms−1) allows us to determine the real motions of erupting filaments in 3D space. It is expected that SDDI provides unprecedented datasets to study the relation between the kinematics of filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CME), and to contribute to the real-time prediction of the occurrence of CMEs that cause a significant impact on the space environment of the Earth.
Volume
292
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85017312307
Source
Solar Physics
ISSN of the container
00380938
Sponsor(s)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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