Coronal Temperature Diagnostic Capability of the Hinode/X-Ray Telescope Based on Self-Consistent Calibration
arXiv:1011.2867 · doi:10.1007/s11207-010-9685-2
Abstract
The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite is an X-ray imager that observes the solar corona with unprecedentedly high angular resolution (consistent with its 1" pixel size). XRT has nine X-ray analysis filters with different temperature responses. One of the most significant scientific features of this telescope is its capability of diagnosing coronal temperatures from less than 1 MK to more than 10 MK, which has never been accomplished before. To make full use of this capability, accurate calibration of the coronal temperature response of XRT is indispensable and is presented in this article. The effect of on-orbit contamination is also taken into account in the calibration. On the basis of our calibration results, we review the coronal-temperature-diagnostic capability of XRT.
References in corpus (4)
- Constraints on the Heating of High Temperature Active Region Loops: Observations from Hinode and SDO
- Hinode X-Ray Telescope Detection of Hot Emission from Quiescent Active Regions: A Nanoflare Signature?
- Hinode/Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer Observations of the Temperature Structure of the Quiet Corona
- Hinode Calibration for Precise Image Co-alignment between SOT and XRT (November 2006 -- April 2007)
Cited by in corpus (35)
- Constraints on the Heating of High Temperature Active Region Loops: Observations from Hinode and SDO
- Using a Differential Emission Measure and Density Measurements in an Active Region Core to Test a Steady Heating Model
- Simultaneous IRIS and Hinode/EIS observations and modelling of the 27 October 2014 X 2.0 class flare
- How Common are Hot Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Low Solar Corona? A Statistical Study of EUV Observations
- Microflare Heating of a Solar Active Region Observed with NuSTAR, Hinode/XRT, and SDO/AIA
- Widespread nanoflare variability detected with Hinode/XRT in a solar active region
- Physical properties of solar polar jets: A statistical study with Hinode XRT data
- Coronal-Temperature-Diagnostic Capability of the Hinode/X-Ray Telescope Based on Self-Consistent Calibration. II. Calibration with on-Orbit Data
- Sun-as-a-star Spectral Irradiance Observations of Transiting Active Regions
- Calibrating Data from the Hinode/X-Ray Telescope and Associated Uncertainties
- Heating of an erupting prominence associated with a solar coronal mass ejection on 2012 January 27
- Relating magnetic reconnection to coronal heating
- When do solar erupting hot magnetic flux ropes form?
- First ALMA Observation of a Solar Plasmoid Ejection from an X-ray Bright Point
- Quiescent Reconnection Rate Between Emerging Active Regions and Preexisting Field, with Associated Heating: NOAA AR11112
- FOXSI-2 Solar Microflares I : Multi-instrument Differential Emission Measure Analysis and Thermal Energies
- Universal Scaling Laws for Solar and Stellar Atmospheric Heating: Catalog of Power-law Index between Solar Activity Proxies and Various Spectral Irradiances
- Impulsive coronal heating from large-scale magnetic rearrangements: from IRIS to SDO/AIA
- Solar microflares: a case study on temperatures and the Fe XVIII emission
- Temperature and Density Structure of a Recurring Active Region Jet
- Non-equilibrium ionization effects on solar EUV and X-ray imaging observations
- Time Evolution Altitude of an Observed Coronal Wave
- Sympathetic Standard and Blowout Coronal Jets Observed in a Polar Coronal Hole
- A nanoflare based cellular automaton model and the observed properties of the coronal plasma
- Dynamic Processes of the Moreton Wave on 2014 March 29
- Role of Longitudinal Waves in Alfvén-wave-driven Solar Wind
- Further Evidence for the Minifilament-Eruption Scenario for Solar Polar Coronal Jets
- Mass and energy of erupting solar plasma observed with the X-Ray Telescope on Hinode
- X-Raying the Dark Side of Venus - Scatter from Venus Magnetotail?
- Thermodynamic evolution of a sigmoidal active region with associated flares
- Formation and Thermodynamic Evolution of plasmoids in active region jets
- view of the sunrise: Boosting helioscopes with angular information
- Prominence Visibility in Hinode/XRT images
- Forward Modeling Transient Brightenings and Microflares around an Active Region Observed with Hi-C
- A publicly available multi-observatory data set of an enhanced network patch from the Photosphere to Corona