Solar observatory Einstein Tower -- Data release of the digitized solar full-disk photographic plate archive

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العنوان: Solar observatory Einstein Tower -- Data release of the digitized solar full-disk photographic plate archive
المؤلفون: Pal, Partha S., Verma, M., Rendtel, J., Manrique, S. J. González, Enke, H., Denker, C.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: We present solar full-disk observations, which were recorded at the Einstein Tower during the years 1943 - 1991 (Solar Cycles 18 - 22). High-school students from Potsdam and Berlin digitized more than 3500 full-disk images during two- to three-week internships at AIP. The digital images cover a 15 cm $\times$ 15 cm region on photographic plates, which were scanned at a resolution of 7086 $\times$ 7086 pixels. The raw data are monochromatic 8-bit images in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). These images were calibrated and saved with improved photometric precision as 16-bit images with 2048 $\times$ 2048 pixels in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format, which contains extensive headers describing the full-disk images and the observations. The various calibration steps include, for example, accurate measurements of the solar radius, determination of the limb-darkening function, and establishing an accurate coordinate system. The contrast-enhanced and limb-darkening corrected images as well as the raw data are freely available to researchers and the general public in publicly accessible repository. The data are published as a special data release of the Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE (APPLAUSE) project.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1002/asna.202013791
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14744
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2007.14744
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv