SH53B-4228:
Inter-Comparison between July 24, 2014 EUV Data from NASA Sounding Rocket 36.289 and Concurrent Measurements from Orbital Solar Observatories
Friday, 19 December 2014
Leonid V Didkovsky, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Seth R Wieman, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Darrell L Judge, Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Abstract:
Sounding rocket mission NASA 36.289 Didkovsky provided solar EUV irradiance measurements from four instruments built at the USC Space Sciences Center: the Rare Gas Ionization Cell (RGIC), the Solar Extreme ultraviolet Monitor (SEM), the Dual Grating Spectrometer (DGS), and the Optics-Free Spectrometer (OFS), thus meeting the mission comprehensive success criteria. These sounding rocket data allow us to inter-compare the observed absolute EUV irradiance with the data taken at the same time from the SOHO and SDO solar observatories. The sounding rocket data from the two degradation-free instruments (DGS and OFS) can be used to verify the degradation rates of SOHO and SDO EUV channels and serve as a flight-proven prototypes for future improvements of degradation-free instrumentation for solar physics.
