Physics
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Apr 2003
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #5551
Physics
Scientific paper
The Solar-B mission is a third Japanese solar physics mission following Hinotori and Yohkoh. It is now under development, will be launched in 2005, and is expected to play a key role in IHY. Solar-B is not only a national project of Japan involving many domestic institutions, but also a multilateral, international challenge involving US NASA and UK PPARC, plus ESA. Three advanced telescopes to be onboard Solar-B are as follows: The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) is a 50-cm diameter visible-light telescope that aims at diffraction-limited angular resolution of 0.2 arcsec with a capability for measuring vector magnetic field. The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) is a grazing incidence mirror equipped with an advanced CCD camera. The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) helps us to relate the visible-light photosphere to X-ray corona, thus enabling to understand the connection between these two layers, as well as to make a detailed diagnostics of the solar atmosphere possible. With these telescopes we will obtain deep understanding of the nature of solar magnetic field and dynamo, the coronal heating mechanism, MHD processes that govern the coronal structure and dynamics, and further their impacts on the space weather.
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