Photon/Optical Detectors
AIA-SDO
[Source: Atmospheric Imaging Assembly team home page, http://aia.lmsal.com/ ] The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is designed to provide an unprecendented view of the solar corona, taking images that span at least 1.3 solar diameters in mutiple wavelengths nearly simultaneously, at a resolution of about 1 arcsec and at a cadence of 10 seconds or better. The primary goal of the AIA Science Investigation is to use these data, together with data from other SDO instruments and from other observatories, to significantly improve our understanding of the physics behind the activity displayed by the Sun's atmosphere, which drives space weather in the heliosphere and in planetary environments. The AIA will produce data required for quantitative studies of the evolving coronal magnetic field, and the plasma that it holds, both in quiescent phases and during flares and eruptions; the AIA science investigation aims to utilize these data in a comprehensive research program to provide new understanding of the observed processes and, ultimately, to guide development of advanced forecasting tools needed by the user community of the Living With a Star (LWS) program. Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: AIA-SDO Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Solar/Space Observing Instruments Instrument_Class: Photon/Optical Detectors Short_Name: AIA-SDO Long_Name: Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on Solar Dynamics Observatory End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: SDO End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Ultraviolet Number_Channels: 3 UV-Visible channels End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Ultraviolet Number_Channels: 7 Extreme Ultraviolet Channels End_Group Online_Resource: http://aia.lmsal.com/ Online_Resource: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/instruments.php Creation_Date: 2009-04-24 Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group