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- Title
The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope Part I: Instrument Overview and Pre-Flight Testing.
- Authors
Seaton, D.; Berghmans, D.; Nicula, B.; Halain, J.-P.; Groof, A.; Thibert, T.; Bloomfield, D.; Raftery, C.; Gallagher, P.; Auchère, F.; Defise, J.-M.; D'Huys, E.; Lecat, J.-H.; Mazy, E.; Rochus, P.; Rossi, L.; Schühle, U.; Slemzin, V.; Yalim, M.; Zender, J.
- Abstract
The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) is an EUV solar telescope onboard ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) mission launched on 2 November 2009. SWAP has a spectral bandpass centered on 17.4 nm and provides images of the low solar corona over a 54×54 arcmin field-of-view with 3.2 arcsec pixels and an imaging cadence of about two minutes. SWAP is designed to monitor all space-weather-relevant events and features in the low solar corona. Given the limited resources of the PROBA2 microsatellite, the SWAP telescope is designed with various innovative technologies, including an off-axis optical design and a CMOS-APS detector. This article provides reference documentation for users of the SWAP image data.
- Subjects
IMAGE processing; SOLAR telescopes; SOLAR spectra; SPACE environment; SYSTEMS design; SOLAR active regions; SOLAR corona; SUN
- Publication
Solar Physics, 2013, Vol 286, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0038-0938
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11207-012-0114-6