THz solar observations on board of a trans-Antarctic stratospheric balloon flight

A new system of two photometers was built to observe the Sun at 3 and 7 THz from space, named SOLAR-T. It has been flown coupled to U.C. Berkeley GRIPS experiment on a NASA stratospheric balloon flight over Antarctica, 19-30 January 2016. The mission was successfully accomplished. We describe the sy...

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Published in2016 41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz) pp. 1 - 2
Main Authors Kaufmann, P., Abrantes, A., Bortolucci, E. C., Caspi, A., Fernandes, L. O. T., Kropotov, G., Kudaka, A. S., Laurent, G., Machado, N., Marcon, R., Marun, A., Nicolaev, V., Hidalgo Ramirez, R. F., Raulin, J.-P, Saint-Hilaire, P., Shih, A., Silva, C. M., Timofeevsky, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2016
Subjects
solar brightness
Solar flares
THz measurements from space
THz solar photometers
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Summary:A new system of two photometers was built to observe the Sun at 3 and 7 THz from space, named SOLAR-T. It has been flown coupled to U.C. Berkeley GRIPS experiment on a NASA stratospheric balloon flight over Antarctica, 19-30 January 2016. The mission was successfully accomplished. We describe the system performance, solar brightness determination and the first THz impulsive burst detected.
ISSN:2162-2035
DOI:10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2016.7758395