EUVI Synchronic Maps

The EUVI synchronic maps are heliographic projections of the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) solar corona recorded by the Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) telescope on the two STEREO spacecraft. Images acquired simultaneously (hence, synchronic maps) from the two EUVIs are projected onto a latitude vs. Carrington longitude grid to reveal the instantaneous coverage of the solar atmosphere provide by the STEREO imagers. We also provide synchronic maps from the combination of EUVI and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) EUV images on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission. SDO/AIA records the solar corona from the Sun-Earth line thus increasing the simultaneous coverage of the solar corona when the STEREO spacecraft were at the far-side of the Sun (after about 2013) and especially after the interruption of the STEREO-B communications (since 10/2014). The map format is the same as for the EUVI-only maps.

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Brief Introduction

Maps are produced in four EUV wavelengths representing different 'nominal' temperatures of the coronal plasma: ~80,000 Kelvin (304 Å), 1 million K (171Å), 1.4 million K (195Å), and 1.8 million K (284 Å). Note that AIA observes in 193Å. Currently, we provide four sets of synchronic maps with slightly different formats as explained below (the map ranges are also shown):

  • NRL EUVI Only: Carrington coordinates with 6-hour cadence. At the bottom of each frame, we display the actual EUVI-A and B images and the location of the spacecraft in the inner heliosphere. The product ends with the loss of STEREO-B in September 2014.
  • NRL EUV-AIA: Same as above with the addition of AIA.
  • JPL Carrington: Carrington coordinates with 12-hour cadence to match GONG and far-side HMI seismic maps. The product is mirrored from the JPL SECCHI site (see 'Similar Links' below).
  • JPL Carrington Sinlat: Same as above but with sinlat projection (0-360° in Carrington longitude; -90° to 90° in latitude with a sine-latitude y-axis). The product is mirrored from the JPL SECCHI site.

STEREO/EUVI + SDO/AIA

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NRL EUVI AIA (2010/08/15 - 2015)

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JPL Carrington (2010/08/15 - present) * Visual only

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JPL Carrington Sinlat (2010/08/15 - present) * Visual only

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STEREO/EUVI

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NRL EUVI-A and -B (2007/02/15 - 2014/09/27)

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NRL EUVI AIA (284 A)

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Data Policy

The data and images are publicly available per the STEREO mission Data Management Plan and comprise part of the SECCHI team's higher level data products. If you use the images from this site, we would appreciate the following acknowledgement:
"The EUVI synchronic maps are generated by the SECCHI team and maintained at JHUAPL, in collaboration with NRL and JPL."

Acknowledgements

The initial concept for the NRL synchronic maps was developed by B. Sanchez-Andrade Nuño under NASA contract S-136361-Y to NRL. The EUVI-AIA products are produced at NRL by I. Uggarte-Urra. A. Vourlidas acknowledges support from NASA NNX16AH70G for the maintenance of the SECCHI data products and is grateful to the NRL SECCHI team for technical assistance. The website is supported by NASA and APL internal funds. The SECCHI data are produced by an international consortium of the NRL, LMSAL and NASA GSFC (USA), RAL and Univ. Birmingham (UK), MPS (Germany), CSL (Belgium), IOTA and IAS (France).