SULIS: A coronal magnetism explorer for ESA’s Voyage 2050

Scullion, Eamon, Morgan, Huw, Lin, Haosheng, Fedun, Viktor and Morton, Richard (2022) SULIS: A coronal magnetism explorer for ESA’s Voyage 2050. Experimental Astronomy, 54 (2). pp. 317-334. ISSN 0922-6435

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Abstract

Magnetism dominates the structure and dynamics of the solar corona. To understand the true nature of the solar corona and the long-standing coronal heating problem requires measuring the vector magnetic field of the corona at a sufficiently high resolution (spatially and temporally) across a large Field-of-View (FOV). Despite the importance of the magnetic field in the physics of the corona and despite the tremendous progress made recently in the remote sensing of solar magnetic fields, reliable measurements of the coronal magnetic field strength and orientation do not exist. This is largely due to the weakness of coronal magnetic fields, previously estimated to be on the order of 1-10 G, and the difficulty associated with observing the extremely faint solar corona emission. With the Solar cUbesats for Linked Imaging Spectro-polarimetry (SULIS) mission, we plan to finally observe, in detail and over the long-term, uninterrupted measurements of the coronal magnetic vector field using a new and very affordable instrument design concept. This will be profoundly important in the study of local atmospheric coronal heating processes, as well as in measuring the nature of magnetic clouds, in particular, within geoeffective Earth-bound Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) for more accurate forecasting of severe space weather activity.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Sun, Telescope
Subjects: F300 Physics
F500 Astronomy
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2022 13:10
Last Modified: 21 Mar 2023 15:00
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50571

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