Metis: the Solar Orbiter visible light and ultraviolet coronal imager

E Antonucci, M Romoli, V Andretta, S Fineschi… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Aims. Metis is the first solar coronagraph designed for a space mission and is capable of
performing simultaneous imaging of the off-limb solar corona in both visible and UV light …

The Shadow Positioning Sensors (SPS) for formation flying metrology on-board the ESA-PROBA3 mission

A Bemporad, C Baccani, G Capobianco… - Solar Physics and …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
PROBA3 is an ESA technology mission devoted to in-orbit demonstration of the formation
flight (FF) technique, with two satellites kept at an average inter-distance by about 144 m …

On the variation in the volumetric evolution of CMEs from the inner to outer corona

S Majumdar, R Patel, V Pant - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Some of the major challenges faced in understanding the early evolution of coronal mass
ejections (CMEs) are due to the limited observations in the inner corona (< 3 R⊙) and the …

A simple radial gradient filter for batch-processing of coronagraph images

R Patel, S Majumdar, V Pant, D Banerjee - Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
Images of the extended solar corona, as observed by different white-light coronagraphs,
include the K-and F-corona and suffer from a radial variation in intensity. These images …

Connecting 3D evolution of coronal mass ejections to their source regions

S Majumdar, V Pant, R Patel… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Since coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the major drivers of space weather, it is crucial to
study their evolution starting from the inner corona. In this work we use graduated cylindrical …

A statistical study of plasmoids associated with a post-CME current sheet

R Patel, V Pant, K Chandrashekhar… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are often observed to be accompanied by flare,
current sheets, and plasmoids/plasma blobs. 2D and 3D numerical simulations and …

An insight into the coupling of CME kinematics in inner and outer corona and the imprint of source regions

S Majumdar, R Patel, V Pant… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite studying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) for several years, we do not yet have a
complete understanding of their kinematics. To this end, it is essential to understand the …

Design status of ASPIICS, an externally occulted coronagraph for PROBA-3

E Renotte, A Alia, A Bemporad… - Solar Physics and …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The “sonic region” of the Sun corona remains extremely difficult to observe with spatial
resolution and sensitivity sufficient to understand the fine scale phenomena that govern the …

Imaging and spectral observations of a type-II radio burst revealing the section of the CME-driven shock that accelerates electrons

S Majumdar, SP Tadepalli, SS Maity, K Deshpande… - Solar Physics, 2021 - Springer
We report on a multi-wavelength analysis of the 26 January 2014 solar eruption involving a
coronal mass ejection (CME) and a Type-II radio burst, performed by combining data from …

Scatter studies for visible emission line coronagraph on board ADITYA-L1 mission

SN Venkata, BR Prasad, RK Nalla… - Journal of Astronomical …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Visible emission line coronagraph (VELC) on board ADITYA-L1 mission is an internally
occulted mirror coronagraph designed for solar coronal observations over a field of view …