EGU22-4327
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4327
EGU General Assembly 2022
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First results from the SO/PHI instrument on Solar Orbiter

Sami Khan Solanki1, Julian Blanco2, Fatima Kahil1, Philipp Loeschl1, Hanna Strecker3, Johann Hirzberger1, David Orozco Suárez3, Jose Carlos Del Toro Iniesta3, Joachim Woch1, Achim Gandorfer1, Alberto Alvarez-Herrero4, Thierry Appourchaux5, and Reiner Volkmer6
Sami Khan Solanki et al.
  • 1Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany (solanki@mps.mpg.de)
  • 2Image Processing Laboratory of the University of Valencia (IPL)
  • 3Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)
  • 4Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aerospacial (INTA)
  • 5Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS)
  • 6Leibniz-Institute for Solar Physics (KIS)

The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission, launched in February 2020, has just completed its cruise phase. During its nominal mission, it will explore the Sun and heliosphere from close up and from out of the ecliptic plane. It aims to address the overarching questions of how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, and why solar activity changes with time. Among the instruments onboard Solar Orbiter  is the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI), which is the first magnetograph to leave the Sun-Earth line and to observe the Sun from different directions. Already during the cruise phase of Solar Orbiter, SO/PHI has provided a few glimpses of its capabilities, including the excellent quality of the data. In spite of the very limited amount of data gathered during cruise, a few interesting results have already been obtained. A selection of such results will be presented.

 

How to cite: Solanki, S. K., Blanco, J., Kahil, F., Loeschl, P., Strecker, H., Hirzberger, J., Orozco Suárez, D., Del Toro Iniesta, J. C., Woch, J., Gandorfer, A., Alvarez-Herrero, A., Appourchaux, T., and Volkmer, R.: First results from the SO/PHI instrument on Solar Orbiter, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-4327, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4327, 2022.