Erdelyi, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-3439-4127, Brigitta Korsos, M., Huang, X. et al. (37 more authors) (2022) The Solar Activity Monitor Network - SAMNet. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 12. 2. ISSN 2115-7251
Abstract
The Solar Activity Magnetic Monitor (SAMM) Network (SAMNet) is a future UK-led international network of ground-based solar telescope stations. SAMNet, at its full capacity, will continuously monitor the Sun’s intensity, magnetic, and Doppler velocity fields at multiple heights in the solar atmosphere (from photosphere to upper chromosphere). Each SAMM sentinel will be equipped with a cluster of identical telescopes each with a different magneto-optical filter (MOFs) to take observations in K I, Na D, and Ca I spectral bands. A subset of SAMM stations will have white-light coronagraphs and emission line coronal spectropolarimeters. The objectives of SAMNet are to provide observational data for space weather research and forecast. The goal is to achieve an operationally sufficient lead time of e.g., flare warning of 2–8 h and provide many sought-after continuous synoptic maps (e.g., LoS magnetic and velocity fields, intensity) of the lower solar atmosphere with a spatial resolution limited only by seeing or diffraction limit, and with a cadence of 10 min. The individual SAMM sentinels will be connected to their master HQ hub where data received from all the slave stations will be automatically processed and flare warning issued up to 26 h in advance.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © R. Erdélyi et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2022. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Sun-flares-precursors |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 824135 EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 955620 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ST/V005979/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2021 10:02 |
Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2022 16:35 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | EDP Sciences |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1051/swsc/2021025 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175746 |