November 5 - 9, 2012, Brussels, Belgium
Splinter - PROBA2-SWAP: status of the instrument and scientific achievements after three years in orbit
D. Berghmans (ROB)
Tuesday, Nov 6, 16:30-18:30
SWAP is a miniature EUV images onboard the ESA PROBA2 microsatellite. Despite being orders of magnitude smaller in resources than the big brothers on SDO, SWAP has proven to be able to provide a non-stop stream of EUV images capable of observing every space weather relevant phenomena in the solar corona. SWAP is also as a test-bed for using CMOS-APS detectors in orbit for solar physics and the SWAP data have given rise to tens of scientific publications. In this session, we will cover topics that are SWAP relevant, but not necessarily limited to SWAP:
- performance and degradation issues of EUV images,
- setting up a space weather flare service based on EUV images,
- coronal physics: what is going beyond the AIA field of view?
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