Assembly Measuring the Suns Surface, Chromosphere, Transition - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

AIA-The Atmospheric Imagine Assembly Measuring the Sun’s Surface, Chromosphere, Transition Region, and Corona using visible and extreme Ultra-violet light. Alan Title PI Representing the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center Instrument and Science Teams, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Stanford University

Briefly • What is AIA? • What does it do? • What should we learn? • Where is the data?

AIA is a Full Sun Imager • The Field of View (indicated by the orange circle)is 41 arc minutes or to about 120,000 miles above the Solar surface. • This allows observation of 96% of the x-Ray radiance. • AIA will observe ~98% of the emission in EVE’s field of view. • Each AIA image will covers 25 times more of the Sun than TRACE.

Four Dual Temperature Telescopes 50,000 K 2,500,000 K 6,000 K 2,000,000 K 6,000,000 K 600,000 K 1,250,000 K 15,000,000 K AIA takes Full Disk Solar Images with all telescopes every ten seconds

AIA and HMI Together Provide Data from the Solar Interior to the Heliosphere Tricolor: 171 Å 195 Å Yohkoh

From Sunlight to Science Entrance Aperture PM + Filter filters Selector 2M Wheel MOC Data JSOC CCD Shutter SDO Archive DDS Science team, Solar Physics Science Computers Community, NASA, Taxpayers Investigation