MSU Solar Physics Group

Known as "Solar-B" prior to launch, Hinode is a follow-on to the very successful Yohkoh ("Solar-A") mission. MSU is a part of the Mission Operations and Data Analysis team for Hinode's X-Ray Telescope (XRT). The XRT was constructed by the Solar & Stellar X-ray Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

MSU's XRT team members are Keiji Yoshimura, Aki Takeda and a graduate student, Rhiannon Fleming.

• Hinode Roll Angle Monitoring
  -- Roll angle change monitored since March 2022.


• G-band Intensity Increase in 2022
  -- G-band intensity small increase started in May 2022.
  Contamination thickness assumed in XRT_TEEM.


• XOB History/Search Form -- Find out when a program was run. Searchable by image parameters, by Program Name, or by XOB #


• The Uncertainty/Noise/Error Created by JPEG Compression
  -- With special emphasis on HINODE/XRT data.


• Latest XRT response functions.
  -- The latest temperature response and filter ratio curves.


• XRT Synoptics Composite Image Archive
  -- Calender-like archive of the synoptic (full-sun) images.


• Latest Synoptics Composite Image and its archive in PNG and FITS .
  -- Synoptic composite images made from newly arrived Quick Look data.


• Stray Light Study summary pages.     2014     2015 phase 1     2015 phase 2     2016     2017 phase 2     2017 phase 3     2018 phase 2     2018 phase 3     2019     2020     2021     2022 phase 4     2022 phase 5     2023 phase 6


• Coalignment Database of Hinode/XRT -- How to correct XRT FITS header information for coalignment with images from other instruments.


• CCD Dust shadow analysis. -- (coming up soon.)


• New Calibration: CCD contaminant layer thickness.     Description     and     Plot page.


• XRT Level0 data Mpeg Movie Archive -- Monthly web pages providing mpeg movies of level0 data for each filter pairs.
   

News

Visit the XRT Picture of the Week!

May 2012 Solar Eclipse

This page initially created by David McKenzie and maintained by Aki Takeda.