1. Reconstruction of total solar irradiance variability as simultaneously apparent from Solar Orbiter and Solar Dynamics Observatory
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Yeo, K. L., Krivova, N. A., Solanki, S. K., Hirzberger, J., Suárez, D. Orozco, Albert, K., Jorge, N. Albelo, Appourchaux, T., Alvarez-Herrero, A., Rodríguez, J. Blanco, Gandorfer, A., Gutierrez-Marques, P., Kahil, F., Kolleck, M., Iniesta, J. C. del Toro, Volkmer, R., Woch, J., Fiethe, B., Pérez-Grande, I., Kilders, E. Sanchis, Jiménez, M. Balaguer, Rubio, L. R. Bellot, Calchetti, D., Carmona, M., Feller, A., Fernandez-Rico, G., Fernández-Medina, A., Parejo, P. García, Blesa, J. L. Gasent, Gizon, L., Grauf, B., Heerlein, K., Korpi-Lagg, A., Maue, T., Meller, R., Vacas, A. Moreno, Müller, R., Nakai, E., Schmidt, W., Schou, J., Sinjan, J., Staub, J., Strecker, H., Torralbo, I., and Valori, G.
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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
Solar irradiance variability has been monitored almost exclusively from the Earth's perspective. {We present a method to combine the unprecedented observations of the photospheric magnetic field and continuum intensity from outside the Sun-Earth line, which is being recorded by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on board the Solar Orbiter mission (SO/PHI), with solar observations recorded from the Earth's perspective to examine the solar irradiance variability from both perspectives simultaneously.} Taking SO/PHI magnetograms and continuum intensity images from the cruise phase of the Solar Orbiter mission and concurrent observations from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/HMI) as input into the SATIRE-S model, we successfully reconstructed the total solar irradiance variability as apparent from both perspectives. In later stages of the SO mission, the orbital plane will tilt in such a way as to bring the spacecraft away from the ecliptic to heliographic latitudes of up to $33^{\circ}$. The current study sets the template for the reconstruction of solar irradiance variability as seen from outside the ecliptic from data that SO/PHI is expected to collect from such positions. {Such a reconstruction will be beneficial to factoring inclination into how the brightness variations of the Sun compare to those of other cool stars, whose rotation axes are randomly inclined.
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- 2023
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