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RHESSI Solar Flare Data: Light Curves, Spectra, and Images

Entry ID: RHESSI

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Summary

Abstract: The primary mission of the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) is to explore the basic physics of
particle acceleration and energy release in solar flares. RHESSI
consists of an X-Ray Imager and Germanium detector spectrometer.

Data available includes:
- Solar flare catalog: list of flares detected by RHESSI
- Light Curves: Time profiles of the RHESSI Observing Summary Count
Rate data
- Spectrograms
- Quicklook Images of reconstructed flare data
- Spectra

Data can be accessed from:
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessidatacenter/
and
http://www.hedc.ethz.ch/www/quick_dp_search.html

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Description: Access to RHESSI data from the HESSI Experimental Data Center (HEDC)

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: RHESSI Team

Dataset Title: RHESSI Data

Dataset Release Date: 2002

Dataset Release Place: Greenbelt, MD

Dataset Publisher: NASA/GSFC

Online Resource: http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2002-02-05

Location Keywords

SPACE > SOLAR REGION > CHROMOSPHERE

SPACE > SOLAR REGION > PHOTOSPHERE

Science Keywords

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > GAMMA RAY > GAMMA RAY FLUX

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > X-RAY > X-RAY FLUX

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

RHESSI > Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager

Instrument

HESSI IMAGER

HESSI SPECTROMETER

Ancillary Keywords

solar flares

spectrograms

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

NASA/GSFC

Data Center

Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, Solar Physics Lab, Heliospheric Science Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessidatacenter/

Data Center Personnel
Name: GORDON D. HOLMAN Email: gordon.d.holman at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mailstop 671.0 City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: online www

Fees: none

Publications/References

RHESSI Special Issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters

and the RHESSI Special Issue of Solar Physics (Vol. 210), November
2002 on the first results from RHESSI.
http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?J=5172&I=72

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2004-11-19

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-05-09

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