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Reconstruction of total solar irradiance variability as simultaneously apparent from Solar Orbiter and Solar Dynamics Observatory

Authors :
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.
Valori, G.
Source :
A&A 679, A25 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023

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.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
A&A 679, A25 (2023)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2309.16355
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202345872