May 2008
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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SP54A-04
Physics
7599 General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
The solar physics community in Japan has so far developed three solar missions over the past 25 years with strong NASA and UK participation. With the success of the Hinode (SOLAR-B) mission, a SOLAR-C working group was officially approved by ISAS/JAXA in December 2007 to develop a mission plan. Two plans are being considered. The Plan A mission performs out-of-ecliptic magnetic and helio-seismic observations to investigate the internal structure and dynamo mechanism of the Sun. The spacecraft maintains an orbit approximately 1AU from the Sun with inclination up to 60 degrees, so that the spacecraft observes both polar regions as well as equatorial regions in each year. The Plan B mission pursues high resolution observations that Hinode initiated by enhancing the spectroscopic and spectro-polarimetric capability and by extending the wavelength coverage to the UV. The plan B mission covers the entire solar atmosphere from photosphere to corona, including the chromosphere and transition layer, with a suite of telescopes with high spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions. We request a launch date in the mid 2010s. ISAS/JAXA expects the working group to propose a single mission plan after one year of study. The solar physics community and related disciplines in Japan strongly desire and endorse the SOLAR-C mission to be realized in mid 2010s. The JAXA SOLAR-C working group invites US and European participation in the SOLAR-C program, following our remarkable history of collaboration.
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