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20092025
most citedMetis: the Solar Orbiter visible light and ultraviolet coronal imager

190 citations · 548 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Investigating Solar Wind Outflows from Open-Closed Magnetic Field Structures Using Coordinated Solar Orbiter and Hinode Observations

Nawin Ngampoopun, Roberto Susino, David H. Brooks +13

ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter (SO) allows us to study the solar corona at closer distances and from different perspectives, which helps us to gain significant insights into the origins…

astro-ph.SR2024

Study of solar brightness profiles in the 18-26 GHz frequency range with INAF radio telescopes II. Evidence for coronal emission

M. Marongiu, A. Pellizzoni, S. Righini +43

One of the most important objectives of solar physics is the physical understanding of the solar atmosphere, the structure of which is also described in terms of the density (N) an…

astro-ph.SR2023

Coronal Heating Rate in the Slow Solar Wind

Daniele Telloni, Marco Romoli, Marco Velli +59

This Letter reports the first observational estimate of the heating rate in the slowly expanding solar corona. The analysis exploits the simultaneous remote and local observations…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Does Turbulence along the Coronal Current Sheet Drive Ion Cyclotron Waves?

Daniele Telloni, Gary P. Zank, Laxman Adhikari +32

Evidence for the presence of ion cyclotron waves, driven by turbulence, at the boundaries of the current sheet is reported in this paper. By exploiting the full potential of the jo…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 1 cited

Connecting Solar Orbiter remote-sensing observations and Parker Solar Probe in-situ measurements with a numerical MHD reconstruction of the Parker spiral

Ruggero Biondo, Alessandro Bemporad, Paolo Pagano +21

As a key feature, NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and ESA-NASA's Solar Orbiter (SO) missions cooperate to trace solar wind and transients from their sources on the Sun to the inner…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 56 cited

Observation of Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

Daniele Telloni, Gary P. Zank, Marco Stangalini +49

Switchbacks are sudden, large radial deflections of the solar wind magnetic field, widely revealed in interplanetary space by the Parker Solar Probe. The switchbacks' formation mec…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 32 cited

Exploring the Solar Wind from its Source on the Corona into the Inner Heliosphere during the First Solar Orbiter - Parker Solar Probe Quadrature

Daniele Telloni, Vincenzo Andretta, Ester Antonucci +68

This Letter addresses the first Solar Orbiter (SO) -- Parker Solar Probe (PSP) quadrature, occurring on January 18, 2021, to investigate the evolution of solar wind from the extend…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video

Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne +82

We introduce Ego4D, a massive-scale egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite. It offers 3,670 hours of daily-life activity video spanning hundreds of scenarios (household, outd…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 8 cited

Effects of the chromospheric Lyα line profile shape on the determination of the solar wind HI outflow velocity using the Doppler dimming technique

G. E. Capuano, S. Dolei, D. Spadaro +15

The determination of solar wind outflow velocity is fundamental in order to probe the mechanisms of wind acceleration in the corona. We aim to study, via the Doppler dimming techni…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 50 cited

First light observations of the solar wind in the outer corona with the Metis coronagraph

M. Romoli, E. Antonucci, V. Andretta +65

The investigation of the wind in the solar corona initiated with the observations of the resonantly scattered UV emission of the coronal plasma obtained with UVCS-SOHO, designed to…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

Progress on the Astrometric Gravitation Probe design

Mario Gai, Alberto Vecchiato, Alberto Riva +13

The Astrometric Gravitation Probe mission is a modern version of the 1919 Dyson-Eddington-Davidson experiment, based on a space-borne telescope with a permanent built-in eclipse, p…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

The ASTRA project: a doorway to future astrometry

Mario Gai, Zhaoxiang Qi, Mario G. Lattanzi +15

Astrometric Science and Technology Roadmap for Astrophysics (ASTRA) is a bilateral cooperation between China and Italy with the goal of consolidating astrometric measurement concep…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

RAFTER: Ring Astrometric Field Telescope for Exo-planets and Relativity

Alberto Riva, Mario Gai, Alberto Vecchiato +5

High precision astrometry aims at source position determination to a very small fraction of the diffraction image size, in high SNR regime. One of the key limitations to such goal…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

Cosmic-ray flux predictions and observations for and with Metis on board Solar Orbiter

C. Grimani, V. Andretta, P. Chioetto +41

The Metis coronagraph is one of the remote sensing instruments hosted on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. Metis is devoted to carry out the first simultaneous imaging of t…

astro-ph.SR2020

Simulations of stray light from the surface scattering of the Solar Corona Imager primary mirror

Jianchao Xue, Marco Romoli, Federico Landini +4

The Solar Corona Imager is an internally occulted coronagraph on board the ASO-S mission, which has the advantage of imaging the inner corona in H I {Lyman-\textalpha} (Ly-alpha) a…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 112 cited

The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action

I. Zouganelis, A. De Groof, A. P. Walsh +182

Solar Orbiter is the first space mission observing the solar plasma both in situ and remotely, from a close distance, in and out of the ecliptic. The ultimate goal is to understand…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 190 cited

Metis: the Solar Orbiter visible light and ultraviolet coronal imager

Ester Antonucci, Marco Romoli, Vincenzo Andretta +100

Metis is the first solar coronagraph designed for a space mission capable of performing simultaneous imaging of the off-limb solar corona in both visible and UV light. The observat…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 10 cited

Comparing extrapolations of the coronal magnetic field structure at 2.5 solar radii with multi-viewpoint coronagraphic observations

C. Sasso, R. F. Pinto, V. Andretta +19

The magnetic field shapes the structure of the solar corona but we still know little about the interrelationships between the coronal magnetic field configurations and the resultin…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 57 cited

Morphology and density of post-CME current sheets

B. Vršnak, G. Poletto, E. Vujić +11

Eruption of a coronal mass ejection (CME) drags and "opens" the coronal magnetic field, presumably leading to the formation of a large-scale current sheet and the field relaxation…