The Solar Orbiter Mission and its Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI)

Gandorfer, Achim; Solanki, Sami K.; Woch, Joachim; Martínez Pillet, Valentin; Álvarez Herrero, Alberto; Appourchaux, Thierry
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 271, Issue 1, pp. 012086 (2011).

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2011
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6
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0
Citations
13
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11
Description
We briefly outline the scientific and instrumental aspects of ESA's Solar Orbiter mission. Special emphasis is given to the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager, the instrument with the highest relevance for helioseismology applications, which will observe gas motions and the vector magnetic field in the photosphere at high spatial and temporal resolution.
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