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20102025
most citedThe Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action

112 citations · 288 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Transformational astrophysics and exoplanet science with Habitable Worlds Observatory's High Resolution Imager

Vincent Van Eylen, Richard Massey, Saeeda Awan +167

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be NASA's flagship space telescope of the 2040s, designed to search for life on other planets and to transform broad areas of astrophysics.…

astro-ph.SR2025

A New Method of Deriving Doppler Velocities for Solar Orbiter SPICE

J. E. Plowman, D. M. Hassler, M. E. Molnar +7

This paper presents a follow-up to previous work on correcting PSF-induced Doppler artifacts in observations by the SPICE spectrograph on Solar Orbiter. In a previous paper, we dem…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

SPICE Connection Mosaics to link the Sun's surface and the heliosphere

T. Varesano, D. M. Hassler, N. Zambrana Prado +28

We present an analysis of the first connection mosaic made by the SPICE instrument on board of the ESA / NASA Solar Orbiter mission on March 2nd, 2022. The data will be used to map…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 17 cited

A multiple spacecraft detection of the 2 April 2022 M-class flare and filament eruption during the first close Solar Orbiter perihelion

M. Janvier, S. Mzerguat, P. R. Young +56

The Solar Orbiter mission completed its first remote-sensing observation windows in the spring of 2022. On 2/4/2022, an M-class flare followed by a filament eruption was seen both…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

Slow Solar Wind Connection Science during Solar Orbiter's First Close Perihelion Passage

Stephanie L. Yardley, Christopher J. Owen, David M. Long +76

The Slow Solar Wind Connection Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (Slow Wind SOOP) was developed to utilise the extensive suite of remote sensing and in situ instruments on board the ESA…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 19 cited

Imaging and spectroscopic observations of extreme-ultraviolet brightenings using EUI and SPICE on board Solar Orbiter

Ziwen Huang, L. Teriaca, R. Aznar Cuadrado +16

The smallest extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) brightening events that were detected so far, called campfires, have recently been uncovered by the High Resolution EUV telescope (HRIEUV), w…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 1 cited

SPICE PSF Correction: General Framework and Capability Demonstration

Joseph E. Plowman, Frédéric Auchère, Regina Aznar Cuadrado +5

We present a new method of removing PSF artifacts and improving the resolution of multidimensional data sources including imagers and spectrographs. Rather than deconvolution, whic…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 14 cited

Plasma composition measurements in an active region from Solar Orbiter/SPICE and Hinode/EIS

David H. Brooks, Miho Janvier, Deborah Baker +28

A key goal of the Solar Orbiter mission is to connect elemental abundance measurements of the solar wind enveloping the spacecraft with EUV spectroscopic observations of their sola…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 30 cited

First observations from the SPICE EUV spectrometer on Solar Orbiter

A. Fludra, M. Caldwell, A. Giunta +28

We present first science observations taken during the commissioning activities of the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter…

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.IM2019★ 1 cited

The Solar Orbiter SPICE instrument -- An extreme UV imaging spectrometer

The SPICE Consortium, :, M. Anderson +88

The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument is a high-resolution imaging spectrometer operating at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths. In this paper, we p…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 1 cited

Spectroscopic EUV observations of impulsive solar energetic particle event sources

R. Bucik, A. Fludra, R. Gomez-Herrero +4

Context. The remote observations of solar flare ion acceleration are rather limited. There are theoretical predictions for signatures of ion acceleration in EUV line profiles. Prev…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 31 cited

LEMUR: Large European Module for solar Ultraviolet Research. European contribution to JAXA's Solar-C mission

Luca Teriaca, Vincenzo Andretta, Frédéric Auchère +39

Understanding the solar outer atmosphere requires concerted, simultaneous solar observations from the visible to the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and soft X-rays, at high spatial resol…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 38 cited

Solar magnetism eXplorer (SolmeX)

H. Peter, L. Abbo, V. Andretta +36

The magnetic field plays a pivotal role in many fields of Astrophysics. This is especially true for the physics of the solar atmosphere. Measuring the magnetic field in the upper s…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 3 cited

Science Objectives for an X-Ray Microcalorimeter Observing the Sun

J. Martin Laming, J. Adams, D. Alexander +57

We present the science case for a broadband X-ray imager with high-resolution spectroscopy, including simulations of X-ray spectral diagnostics of both active regions and solar fla…