Photoelectric Analysis of the Solar Granulation in IR

Abstract

Results of both image analysis and statistical analysis of 1D scans the IR granulation observed in the opacity minimum region are briefly presented. The same technique was applied at 600 nm and results partially presented by Koutchmy and Lebecq, 1986, Astron. Astrophys. 169, 323. All observations were collected at the prime focus of the Sac Peak VTT using high signal-to-noise ratio measurements with a specially-designed pinhole PbS spectro-photometer; imaging has been made using both 2D scanning of the telescope and processed video-scans of an IR-vidicon. Images of the IR granulation and of sunspot umbral dots and penumbral filaments are present for the first time. The main results are: Photoelectric observation, Solar granulation, Infrared observations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA257811

Entities

People

  • Serge Koutchmy

Organizations

  • Phillips Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Congress
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Cross Correlation
  • Data Science
  • Filaments
  • Images
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Nato
  • Observation
  • Physical Sciences
  • Power Spectra
  • Scanning
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Telescopes
  • Workshops

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Solar Physics
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Space