First Results from EUNIS-06

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The Extreme Ultraviolet Normal-Incidence Spectrograph (EUNIS) sounding rocket experiment successfully completed its first flight on 12 April 2006 from White Sands Missile Range, obtaining 145 science images in each of two wavelength channels. EUNIS is designed to investigate the energetics of the solar corona and hotter transition region through high-resolution imaging spectroscopy with a rapid (2-3 second) cadence. The two independent optical systems of EUNIS simultaneously record spectra over two passbands (170-205 Å and 300-370 Å), each spatially resolved along slit lengths of about 660 arcsec. The longwave channel includes He II 304 Å and strong lines from Fe XI-XVI. The shortwave passband has a sequence of very strong Fe IX-XIII lines. Together, the EUNIS telescopes furnish a wide range of temperature and density diagnostics and enables underflight calibration of instrumental passbands on the SOHO, TRACE, Solar-B, and STEREO missions.
We present an overview of the science images from the first flight with emphasis on transient phenomena. The target was active region NOAA 10871 and adjacent quiet areas. Spectra were recorded with exposure times as short as 0.1 s, demonstrating that EUNIS is the most sensitive solar EUV spectrograph in operation, with over 100 times the throughput of its predecessor, the Solar Extreme ultraviolet Research Telescope and Spectrograph (SERTS).
EUNIS is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Division's Solar & Heliospheric Physics Supporting Research and Technology and Low Cost Access to Space Program.

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