Probing the Spatial Scales of Coronal Loops with NASA’s High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C)

Thomas Williams

Hosted by Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom on September 8, 2022

Abstract

NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program has provided essential contributions to space science since 1959 and has proved to be one of the most robust, versatile, and cost-effective flight programs at NASA. On the 29th May 2018, the High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) was launched for a third time from the White Sands Missile Range, NM, USA capturing 329 seconds of 17.2 nm data of target active region AR 12712, with a cadence of ~4s and a plate scale of ~0.129 arcsec. This unique dataset provides some of the highest-resolution EUV observations of coronal loops to date. In this presentation, the spatial scales of these fundamental building blocks of the solar corona are explored and the results from Hi-C are discussed with respect to SDO/AIA and Solar Orbiter.

Recorded video

https://science-media.org/video/331