On the Photometric Accuracy of RHESSI Imaging and Spectrosocopy

Details On the Photometric Accuracy of RHESSI Imaging and Spectrosocopy On the Photometric Accuracy of RHESSI Imaging and Spectrosocopy

2003-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309499v1

Solar Phys.219:149-157,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 Figures, full version on http://www.lmsal.com/~aschwand/eprints/2003_photo/index.html

Scientific paper

10.1023/B:SOLA.0000021801.83038.

We compare the photometric accuracy of spectra and images in flares observed with the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)}spacecraft. We test the accuracy of the photometry by comparing the photon fluxes obtained in different energy ranges from the spectral-fitting software SPEX with those fluxes contained in the images reconstructed with the Clean, MEM, MEM-Vis, Pixon, and Forward-fit algorithms. We quantify also the background fluxes, the fidelity of source geometries, and spatial spectra reconstructed with the five image reconstruction algorithms. We investigate the effects of grid selection, pixel size, field-of-view, and time intervals on the quality of image reconstruction. The detailed parameters and statistics are provided in an accompanying CD-ROM and web page. We find that Forward-fit, Pixon, and Clean have a robust convergence behavior and a photometric accuracy in the order of a few percents, while MEM does not converge optimally for large degrees of freedom (for large field-of-views and/or small pixel sizes), and MEM-Vis suffers in the case of time-variable sources. This comparative study documents the current status of the RHESSI spectral and imaging software, one year after launch.

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