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The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope Part I: Instrument Overview and Pre-Flight Testing
Seaton, Daniel; Berghmans, David; Nicula, Bogdan et al.
2013In Solar Physics, 286
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Keywords :
Instrumentation and data management; Corona structure
Abstract :
[en] 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-weatherrelevant 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.
Disciplines :
Aerospace & aeronautics engineering
Author, co-author :
Seaton, Daniel
Berghmans, David
Nicula, Bogdan
Halain, Jean-Philippe ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
De Groof, Anik
Thibert, Tanguy ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Bloomfield, Shaun
Raftery, Claire
Gallagher, Peter
Auchère, Frédéric
Defise, Jean-Marc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Satellites, missions et instruments spatiaux
D’Huys, Elke
Lecat, Jean-Hervé ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Mazy, Emmanuel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Rochus, Pierre  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Rossi, Laurence ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Schühle, Udo
Slemzin, Vladimir
Yalim, Sarp
Zender, Joe
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Language :
English
Title :
The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope Part I: Instrument Overview and Pre-Flight Testing
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Solar Physics
ISSN :
0038-0938
Publisher :
Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Volume :
286
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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