SO/PHI Data Releases
This page contains the history of the official data releases to the Solar Orbiter Archive (SOAR)
1st Data Release: 3 December, 2022
Description: All available HRT observations of RSW 1 and RSW 2, L2 data level, version 01.
General information about the RSW 1 and 2 can be found in the Solar Orbiter Confluence webpage.
The version of the HRT Pipeline is: v1.5 September 2nd 2022.
The data are fully reduced (see Sinjan et al., 2022) and corrected for optical aberrations (see Kahil et al., 2022, 2023). However, reconstruction for diffraction at the entrance pupil is not applied. Only L2 data are released, more info about them can be found in Data Format.
Notes: ISS is off, HRT polarization images are co-registered before demodulation.
2nd Data Release: 10 July, 2023
Description: The second data release includes L2 SO/PHI-HRT datasets from RSW 3, 4, and 5 (version 1). General information about the RSW 3-5 can be found in the Solar Orbiter Confluence webpage.
The data are fully reduced (see Sinjan et al., 2022). The version of the HRT Pipeline is: v1.7.0 May 15th 2023.
All datasets are corrected for optical aberration, however, reconstruction for diffraction at the entrance pupil is not applied. The quality of the correction is variable, depending on the availability of suitable phase-diversity calibration files (not always available mostly due to off-pointing). In some cases, improvement to processing is to be expected from forthcoming acquisitions of new calibration datasets and updated observational procedures (see Kahil et al., 2023).
For the above reason, at this point in time only part of the data is released to SOAR. The criteria for SOAR upload is that either data are properly calibrated, or it is not expected that the calibration will improve in the near future. Nevertheless, the data are in a state suitable for scientific exploitation. The datasets uploaded to SOAR are part of the following SOOPs:
RSW 3: Nanoflare, Polar (first instance), AR_Long_Term
RSW 4: RS_ Bursts (both instances), Connection_Mosaic
RSW 5: AR_Long_Term
The remaining data, including the whole RSW 6, will be uploaded to SOAR as soon as better calibrations are attained.
In general, all standard observables are released, as described in https://www.mps.mpg.de/solar-physics/solar-orbiter-phi/data
Some artefacts may impact significantly in particular on vlos. In such cases, vlos is not released at this point in time.
Publishing
If any publications are produced to which SO/PHI data contribute in any way, we would be request you to cite the relevant instrument papers:
Solanki, S. K., del Toro Iniesta, J. C., Woch, J., et al. 2020, A&A, 642, A11, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935325;
Gandorfer, A. M., Grauf, B., Staub, J., et al. 2018, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Vol. 10698, Space Tele-scopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave,1403–1415, DOI: 10.1117/12.2311816.
Please also add the following acknowledgment:
“Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA. We are grateful to the ESA SOC and MOC teams for their support. The German contribution to SO/PHI is funded by the BMWi through DLR and by MPG central funds. The Spanish contribution is funded by AEI/MCIN/10.13039/501100011033/ and European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR” (RTI2018-096886-C5, PID2021-125325OB-C5, PCI2022-135009-2, PCI2022-135029-2) and ERDF “A way of making Europe”; “Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa” awards to IAA-CSIC (SEV-2017-0709, CEX2021-001131-S); and a Ramón y Cajal fellowship awarded to DOS. The French contribution is funded by CNES.”
The data are public and there is no requirement to include SO/PHI team members as co-authors. However, we appreciate if key members of the PHI team are included on publications based to a significant extent on SO/PHI data.
We also would appreciate receiving a copy of any publication you produce that profits from SO/PHI data.
We would be glad if you can report to us about any problem or issue encountered in using SO/PHI data. Please contact sophi_support [at] mps.mpg.de
Further information is given at: https://www.mps.mpg.de/solar-physics/solar-orbiter-phi