The Hinode Mission

Hinode is the Japanese mission for solar physics with contributions from NASA and ESA. This is the first book to give a comprehensive description of the Hinode mission and instruments onboard. The book is richly illustrated with full color images and figures.

Autorentext

T. Sakurai was born 1950 in Tokyo. He got his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Tokyo, 1978.

He has been Managing Editor of Solar Physics since 2006 and Assistant Director General of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan since 2004.

Klappentext

The Solar-B satellite was launched in the morning of 23 September 2006 (06:36 Japan time) by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), and was renamed to Hinode ( sunrise in Japanese). Hinode carries three - struments; the X-ray telescope (XRT), the EUV imaging spectrometer (EIS), and the solar optical telescope (SOT). These instruments were developed by ISAS/JAXA in cooperation with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan as domestic partner, and NASA and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) as international partners. ESA and N- wegian Space Center have been providing a downlink station. All the data taken with Hinode are open to everyone since May 2007. This volume combines the ?rst set of instrumental papers of the Hinode mission (the mission overview, EIS, XRT, and the database system) published in volume 243, Number 1 (June 2007), and the second set of papers (four papers on SOT and one paper on XRT) published in Volume 249, Number 2 (June 2008). Another SOT paper cited as Tarbell et al. (2008) in these papers will appear later in Solar Physics.

Inhalt

The Hinode (Solar-B) Mission: An Overview.- Data Archive of the Hinode Mission.- The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) for the Hinode Mission.- The Hinode X-Ray Telescope (XRT): Camera Design, Performance and Operations.- The EUV Imaging Spectrometer for Hinode.- The Solar Optical Telescope for the Hinode Mission: An Overview.- The Solar Optical Telescope of Solar-B (Hinode): The Optical Telescope Assembly.- Image Stabilization System for Hinode (Solar-B) Solar Optical Telescope.- Polarization Calibration of the Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode.