CHIANTI | Package consisting of an atomic database and IDL routines for analyzing the spectra from astrophysical plasmas. |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
CME | Coronal Mass Ejection |
CoSec | Collaborative Sun Earth Connector - an effort underway at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab to enable the integration and coordination of data analysis tasks across disparate data sources |
DEM | Differential Emission Measure |
EGSO | European Grid of Solar Observations |
ETHZ | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Zentrum) in Zurich, Switzerland |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
FHNW | Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland |
GB | Gigabytes |
GDL | GNU Data Language. A freeware open-source alternative to IDL under development. (http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net) |
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format. One of several standard graphics formats. |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite. Series of satellites in operation since ~1974 providing continuous measurements of the Sun in two channels, 1.0-8.0 and 0.5-4.0 Å. |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
HEDC | HESSI European Data Center |
HXR | Hard X-ray |
I4DS | Institute of 4D Technologies in Windisch, Switzerland |
IDL | Interactive Data Language. Proprietary software purchased from ITT (www.itt.com). Almost all the RHESSI data analysis software is written in IDL. |
IHY | International Heliophysical Year - 2007 & 2008 |
JAVA | An object-oriented platform-independent programming language |
Jython | An implementation of the Python programming language written in Java |
MB | Megabytes |
NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center. NSSDC provides deep archiving for RHESSI data archive, as well as access to other data sets. |
PINTofALE | Package for Interactive Analysis of Line Emission - Markov Chain Monte Carlo differential emission measure analysis package (Kashyap & Drake, 2000) |
PNG | Portable Network Graphics. One of several standard graphics formats. |
QLP | Quick Look Product |
RHESSI | Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, launched February 5, 2002. |
SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly |
SDAC | Solar Data Analysis Center at GSFC. Hosts SSW software, data repository for SOHO, TRACE and other solar missions, and science support staff. |
SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched February 11, 2010 |
SEP | Solar Energetic Particles Event |
SHOW_SYNOP | A data integration tool allowing selection and display of observations from numerous instruments. |
SOHO | Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, launched December 2, 1995 |
SPASE | Space Physics Archive Search and Extract. Standard protocol under development for searching and retrieving data from VxOs. |
SSL | Space Sciences Lab at the University of California, Berkeley |
SSW | Solar SoftWare. A collection of general and instrument-specific IDL routines for solar data analysis. The SSW archive is hosted at the SDAC, and is freely available for download and automatic updates to local computers. RHESSI software is distributed through SSW. |
STEREO | Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory - twin spacecraft launched October 25, 2006 |
SXR | Soft X-ray |
TB | Terabytes |
TGF | Terrestrial Gamm-ray Flashes |
UTPLOT | An collection of IDL routines that provide instrument-independent display utility for time-series data. |
VCn | Virtual Channel n |
VSO | Virtual Solar Observatory |
VxO | Generic term for any Heliophysics virtual observatory, including the EGSO, the VHO, the VIO, the VSO, the VSPO, and the VSTO |
WCS | World Coordinate System - standards for defining the relationship between pixel coordinates in an image and sky coordinates. |