IAFE   05512
INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMIA Y FISICA DEL ESPACIO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Using the Parker Solar Probe WISPR Instrument for Tomography of the Solar Corona
Autor/es:
ALBERTO M. VASQUEZ
Lugar:
San Juan, Argentina
Reunión:
Workshop; Towards Future Research on Space Weather Drivers; 2019
Resumen:
The Wide-field Imager for the Parker Solar Probe (PSP/WISPR) has two telescopes that record white-light total brightness [B] images of the solar corona. Over the 24 highly eccentric orbits planned for the mission, the fields of view of WISPR will cover a widely changing range of heliocentric heights. We investigate if the images provided by WISPR will be suitable for tomographic reconstruction of the electron density of the solar corona. Based on a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic model of the corona and the PSP orbital information, we compute synthetic images for the whole mission. For each orbit, the synthetic images are used to attempt the tomographic reconstruction of the electron density of the model. We report and discuss the results in detail.