Solar Physics Special Issue

June 27, 2005

The SORCE team has been very busy over the past year preparing 18 individual papers to be published in a special issue of Solar Physics. This “topical issue” will be devoted exclusively to the SORCE mission, and will later be published in a hard cover version. All papers have been submitted and are in the final editing/proofing stages. This SORCE issue is expected to be published in August.

The papers provide detailed information on the SORCE mission, goals, spacecraft, instruments, planning software, ground operations, data processing, early science results, and science implications. Each instrument has several papers which are addressing instrument concept, design, science requirements, calibration, performance, and science results. The papers and their first authors are:

The SORCE Mission for the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS)
by Don Anderson and Bob Cahalan
The SORCE Mission
by Gary Rottman
The SORCE Spacecraft and Operations
by Tom Sparn
The SORCE Science Data System
by Christopher Pankratz
SORCE Contributions to New Understanding of Global Change and Solar Variability
by Judith Lean
An Overview of the Disposition of Solar Radiation in the Lower Atmosphere: Connections to the SORCE Mission and Climate Change
by Peter Pilewskie
TIM: Instrument Design
by Greg Kopp
TIM: Instrument Calibration
by Greg Kopp
TIM: Science Results
by Greg Kopp
SIM Scientific Requirements, Instrument Design, and Operation Modes
by Jerry Harder
SIM: Measurement Equation and Calibration
by Jerry Harder
SIM: Early Observations
by Gary Rottman
SOLSTICE II: Instrument Concept and Design
by Bill McClintock
SOLSTICE II: Pre-Launch and On-Orbit Calibrations
by Bill McClintock
SOLSTICE II: Examination of the Solar-Stellar Comparison Technique
by Marty Snow
The Magnesium II Index from SORCE
by Marty Snow
XPS: Overview and Calibrations
by Tom Woods
XPS: Solar Variations During the SORCE Mission
by Tom Woods

To read more, see the June 2005 newsletter

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