TY - JOUR
T1 - A Review of the Extended EUV Corona observed by the Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) instrument
AU - West, Matthew J.
AU - Seaton, Daniel B.
AU - D’Huys, Elke
AU - Mierla, Marilena
AU - Laurenza, Monica
AU - Meyer, Karen
AU - Berghmans, David
AU - Rachmeler, Laurel R.
AU - Rodriguez, Luciano
AU - Stegen, Koen
N1 - Funding Information:
SWAP is a project of the Centre Spatial de Li`ege and the Royal Observatory of Belgium funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO). The SDO data used are provided courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA science team. The STEREO/SECCHI project is an international consortium of the Naval Research Laboratory (USA), Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab (USA), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (USA), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), University of Birmingham (UK), Max Planck-Institut fur Sonnen-systemforschung (Germany), Centre Spatial de Li`ege (Belgium), Institut d’Optique Theorique et Appliquee (France), and Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (France). Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA. The EUI instrument was built by CSL, IAS, MPS, MSSL/UCL, PMOD/WRC, ROB, and LCF/IO with funding from the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO/PRODEX PEA 4000134088); the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES); the UK Space Agency (UKSA); the Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) through the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR); and the Swiss Space Office (SSO). Several figures were created using the ESA and NASA funded Helioviewer Project (JHelioviewer, Muller et al., 2017). M.J. West. and D.B. Seaton. acknowledge support from NASA grant no. 80NSSC22K0523. E. D’Huys., M. Mierla., L. Rachmeler., and D. Berghmans. acknowledge support from the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) in the framework of the ESA PRODEX program, grant No.400013447.
PY - 2022/10/17
Y1 - 2022/10/17
N2 - The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) instrument onboard ESA’s PRoject for On Board Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) has provided the first uncompressed, high-cadence, continuous, large field-of-view observations of the extended extreme ultraviolet (EUV) corona for over a complete solar cycle. It has helped shape our understanding of this previously understudied region, and pioneered research into the middle corona. In this article we present a review of all publications that have utilized these observations to explore the extended EUV corona, highlighting the unique contributions made by SWAP. The review is broadly divided into three main sections of SWAP-based studies about: i) long-lived phenomena, such as streamers, pseudo-streamers, and coronal fans; ii) dynamic phenomena, such as eruptions, jets, EUV waves, and shocks; iii) coronal EUV emission generation. We also highlight SWAP’s imaging capabilities, techniques that have been applied to observations to enhance the off-limb observations, and its legacy.
AB - The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) instrument onboard ESA’s PRoject for On Board Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) has provided the first uncompressed, high-cadence, continuous, large field-of-view observations of the extended extreme ultraviolet (EUV) corona for over a complete solar cycle. It has helped shape our understanding of this previously understudied region, and pioneered research into the middle corona. In this article we present a review of all publications that have utilized these observations to explore the extended EUV corona, highlighting the unique contributions made by SWAP. The review is broadly divided into three main sections of SWAP-based studies about: i) long-lived phenomena, such as streamers, pseudo-streamers, and coronal fans; ii) dynamic phenomena, such as eruptions, jets, EUV waves, and shocks; iii) coronal EUV emission generation. We also highlight SWAP’s imaging capabilities, techniques that have been applied to observations to enhance the off-limb observations, and its legacy.
KW - Corona, structures
KW - Coronal mass ejections, initiation and propagation
KW - Coronal mass ejections, low coronal signatures
KW - Instrumentation and data management
KW - Jets
KW - Prominences, formation and evolution
KW - Radio bursts
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U2 - 10.1007/s11207-022-02063-9
DO - 10.1007/s11207-022-02063-9
M3 - Article
SN - 0038-0938
VL - 297
JO - Solar Physics
JF - Solar Physics
IS - 10
M1 - 136
ER -