Introduction#

The EUV Snapshot Imaging Spectrograph (ESIS) is a NASA sounding rocket mission designed to measure the speed of plasma in the solar atmosphere. ESIS was launched from White Sands Missile Range on September 30th, 2019 and is planned to launch again in 2027.

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The ESIS instrument on the rail preparing for launch. Image credit: NSROC and Catharine Bunn.#

ESIS is a computed tomography imaging spectrometer (CTIS) which forms overlapping images of a few solar spectral lines to measure their Doppler shift. Below is an example of one image captured during the 2019 flight.

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This library provides a model of the ESIS optical system as well as utilities to interpret the images in terms of physically-meaningful quantities.

API Reference#

An in-depth explanation of all the functions, classes, etc. that are implemented as part of this library.

esis

Model the ESIS optical system and invert images captured during flight.

Tutorials#

A series of notebooks which demonstrate the functionality of this package.

Flight 1 (2019)#

Flight 2 (Planned 2027)#


Publications#

Mission Paper (Parker et al. 2022)


Future Work#


References#

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Indices and tables#