Abstract:
As part of the new German-Argentinian Solar Observatory in El Leoncito, San Juan, Argentina, a new ground-based solar telescope (MICA) began to operate in August 1997. MICA is an advanced mirror coronagraph, its design being an almost exact copy of the LASCO-C1 instrument. Since its installation, it has been imaging the inner solar corona (1.05 to 2.0 solar radii) in two spectral ranges corresponding to the emission lines of the Fe XIV and Fe X ions. The instrument can image the corona as fast as every minute. Thus, it is ideally suited to study fast processes in the inner corona. In this way, it is a good complement for the LASCO-C1 instrument. After a brief review of the instrument, we present some recent observations showing the capabilities of the instrument.
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Título: | Mica: The mirror coronagraph for Argentina |
Autor: | Stenborg, G.; Schwenn, R.; Srivastava, N.; Inhester, B.; Podlipnik, B.; Rovira, M.; Francile, C. |
Filiación: | Max-Planck-Inst. für Aeronomie, Max-Planck-Str. 2, (37191) Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany Inst. Astronomia y Fis. del Espacio, C. C. 67 - Suc. 28, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina Observ. Astron. Félix Aguilar, Benavidez 8175 Oeste, (5413) Chimbas, San Juan, Argentina
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Palabras clave: | Corona; Coronagraph |
Año: | 1999
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Volumen: | 87
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Número: | 1-2
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Página de inicio: | 307
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Página de fin: | 310
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Título revista: | Space Science Reviews
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Título revista abreviado: | Space Sci Rev
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ISSN: | 00386308
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CODEN: | SPSRA
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Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00386308_v87_n1-2_p307_Stenborg |
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- Epple, A., (1997) Erdgebundene Beobachtungen der Sonnenkorona mit Einem Spiegelkoronographen, pp. 42-47. , Ph.D. Thesis, Göttingen University, Germany
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- Schwenn, R., First View of the Extended Green-Line Emission Corona at Solar Activity Minimum using the LASCO-C1 Coronagraph on SOHO (1997) Solar Phys., 175, p. 667
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Stenborg, G., Schwenn, R., Srivastava, N., Inhester, B., Podlipnik, B., Rovira, M. & Francile, C.
(1999)
. Mica: The mirror coronagraph for Argentina. Space Science Reviews, 87(1-2), 307-310.
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Stenborg, G., Schwenn, R., Srivastava, N., Inhester, B., Podlipnik, B., Rovira, M., et al.
"Mica: The mirror coronagraph for Argentina"
. Space Science Reviews 87, no. 1-2
(1999) : 307-310.
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Stenborg, G., Schwenn, R., Srivastava, N., Inhester, B., Podlipnik, B., Rovira, M., et al.
"Mica: The mirror coronagraph for Argentina"
. Space Science Reviews, vol. 87, no. 1-2, 1999, pp. 307-310.
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Stenborg, G., Schwenn, R., Srivastava, N., Inhester, B., Podlipnik, B., Rovira, M., et al. Mica: The mirror coronagraph for Argentina. Space Sci Rev. 1999;87(1-2):307-310.
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