The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

• Published in: Solar physics Vol. 289; no. 7; pp. 2733 - 2779
• Main Authors: De Pontieu, B., Title, A. M., Lemen, J. R., Kushner, G. D., Akin, D. J., Allard, B., Berger, T., Boerner, P., Cheung, M., Chou, C., Drake, J. F., Duncan, D. W., Freeland, S., Heyman, G. F., Hoffman, C., Hurlburt, N. E., Lindgren, R. W., Mathur, D., Rehse, R., Sabolish, D., Seguin, R., Schrijver, C. J., Tarbell, T. D., Wülser, J.-P., Wolfson, C. J., Yanari, C., Mudge, J., Nguyen-Phuc, N., Timmons, R., van Bezooijen, R., Weingrod, I., Brookner, R., Butcher, G., Dougherty, B., Eder, J., Knagenhjelm, V., Larsen, S., Mansir, D., Phan, L., Boyle, P., Cheimets, P. N., DeLuca, E. E., Golub, L., Gates, R., Hertz, E., McKillop, S., Park, S., Perry, T., Podgorski, W. A., Reeves, K., Saar, S., Testa, P., Tian, H., Weber, M., Dunn, C., Eccles, S., Jaeggli, S. A., Kankelborg, C. C., Mashburn, K., Pust, N., Springer, L., Carvalho, R., Kleint, L., Marmie, J., Mazmanian, E., Pereira, T. M. D., Sawyer, S., Strong, J., Worden, S. P., Carlsson, M., Hansteen, V. H., Leenaarts, J., Wiesmann, M., Aloise, J., Chu, K.-C., Bush, R. I., Scherrer, P. H., Brekke, P., Martinez-Sykora, J., Lites, B. W., McIntosh, S. W., Uitenbroek, H., Okamoto, T. J., Gummin, M. A., Auker, G., Jerram, P., Pool, P., Waltham, N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.07.2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Atmospheric Sciences; Chromosphere; Coronas; Imaging; Interfaces; Magnesium; Photosphere; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Solar physics; Space Exploration and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics; Spacecraft; Spectra; Spectrographs; Spectrum analysis; Chromosphere, active; Spectrum, ultraviolet; Heating, chromospheric; Heating, coronal; Chromosphere, models; Instrumentation and data management; Corona, active; Magnetic fields, chromosphere

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer spacecraft provides simultaneous spectra and images of the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region, and corona with 0.33 – 0.4 arcsec spatial resolution, two-second temporal resolution, and 1 km s −1 velocity resolution over a fiel...