The flare genesis project

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994adspr..14...89r&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 14, no. 2, p. (2)89-(2)93

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Balloon Flight, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Solar Flares, Solar Magnetic Field, Focal Plane Devices, Image Motion Compensation, Magnetic Signatures, Optical Polarization

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The feasibility of a balloon-borne experiment to understand how the magnetic fields at the solar surface emerge, coalesce, unravel and erupt in solar flares was studied. A key component of the Flare Genesis instrument will be a solar telescope with an 0.8-meter-diameter lightweight mirror. Effects of pendulation and jitter, gravity and temperature on the images formed by the telescope were studied to determine whether it will maintain the desired resolution of approximately 0.2 sec of arc at float altitude. The principal conclusions of the study are that (1) sufficient image stability can be maintained at the focal plane; (2) polarization sensitivity of 2 x 10-4 is achievable; and (3) the data system can store approximately 2000 magnetograms on-board in the course of a 10-to-14-day Antarctic flight.

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