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EIS Team Science Meeting Agenda#

18th March

This page refers to one day of a closed meeting of the EIS consortium

1 Technical#

1.1 Report from Technical Splinter Meeting (previous day)#

• 09:00 (Khalid Al-Janabi)

Khalid reported on the instrument status, w.r.t. PZT non-linearity.

Also discussed the statistics of observations carried out to date.

Remote operations initial testing and model also reported on.

Another instrumental issue is the optimisation of the focus within the instrument. Harry Warren was called on to talk about the slit and grating focus. Google was apparently able to show that the grating focus happened in Aug 2008.

• Post-SLA manoeuvre, the slit images from each channel overlap to 0.25 arcsec. An explosive event observed would help to prove the alignment.

KFJ: Just to clarify there was an offset between the two channels, and now they appear simultaneously on the two detectors. HPW: True. We haven't quite seen dynamic events GAD: What about images on the same detector. Wasn't there a slight offset between Fe VIII and Fe XII. HPW: in my analysis, the offset is pretty well taken care of with PRY's formula. Extremely well correlated once you account for that.

• Grating focus. The grating was driven back and forth to find the best focus position, and the images moved a lot, and consequently the dispersion relation constant changed a lot(!). But then we moved it back. HPW took histograms of the line width. We thought it might improve. At the new position, though, it's unchanged. At the extreme position, there was no usable data because the grating had moved the image so far away :-)

• Hot pixels (KFJ)

Linear trend in the increase of the number of hot pixels on the detector with time. These are in the CCD detectors, approximately 1% of pixels.

• Warm pixels have mean + (5 sigma) to mean + (50 sigma) pedestal values. The rate of increase has had multiple level-offs. After the levelling off in 2008, there was an increase again in July, then levelled off in December. Seems to be a temperature dependence throughout Earth's orbit about the Sun (January is hottest). By 2010, 16% of pixels may be affected; 2012, 26% might be affected. Call on PRY to present happier news about this, though...

• Peter Young

Sounds like a huge fraction of the CCD. What's the best way to treat warm pixels for scientific analysis. My thought from the start of the mission was to ignore them, and neglect them in the analysis. But HPW and PRY talked and found that interpolating actually gave good results. Wrote a document to be posted on this Wiki after the meeting presenting some of the results. Used the standard EIS_PREP processing. Then artificially inserted 30% bad pixels. So how badly were the fits degraded by ignoring these fake "bad pixels". HEM: Interpolatin after fitting? PRY: This is done by EIS_PREP. And is done in the solar_Y direction KPD: How do you know they're better fits? PRY: I have the original data, and identify the places where there never were bad pixels. Then I process these data by inserting fake bad pixels, interpolate, and then compare the line fit parameters. KPD: I think you're inventing data... PRY: That was my worry, too, but it seems to work! HEM: What about clusters of missing pixels? PRY: There are different methods of tackling these.

You could reproduce the original data 97%, but the bad interpolations tend to happen in the high-intensity areas. My recommendation is to use interpolated data rather than just ignoring the missing pixels. I was amazed how well you could do even with 30% warm pixels, but it seems we can continue longer than expected by a couple, even if we don't remove them.

It may be related to EIS's oversampling w.r.t. its resolution, so there is correlation of data which allows some justification of the interpolation: there's a contribution from neighbouring pixels anyway.

• Sensitivity of the instrument over time (KFJ)

We use flat-field LEDs inside the instrument, and we also measure the solar radiation variation over time. We don't seem to be seeing substantial degradation in our sensitivity.

Contamination is also measured with Quartz Crystal Mircobalance sensors, which show no appreciable increase in contamination so far.

PRY: how about the event flags? Are they implemented? KFJ: Implemented in GSW, but not tested yet. They need testing on the Sun. BP trigger could be tested soon. PRY: Is there a problem with remote planning? We'll be more cautious about doing that? KFJ: If we sit together remotely, it may be easier.

JTM: are there problems with Data Volume DRW: It may be easier in the current system.

JLC: How about use of the XRT flare flag? Do we have plans to use it? HH: it is posible for us to use it HPW: He II may be better than XRT

HEM: What does the flag give us? Is it coordinates? HH: Yes, coordinates.

Discussion followed about how to test this flag.

1.2 Analysis Software#

1.2.1 Status of the reduction package#

• 10:00 EIS_PREP (Alessandro Gardini)

AG went through the ordering of calibration steps.

1. Dark current subtraction and options for this
2. Marking hot pixels affected by CRs
3. Hot pixel flagging
4. Warm pixel flagging
5. Dusty pixel flagging
6. Absolute calibration (specific intensity units; photons)

The 1st step returns missing pixels, but they aren't filled in by other values. To do this, you have to allow the CR option (step 2?).

PRY: If I don't use /DEFAULT what happens? AG: If you don't select default, it should ask you to choose the DC file.

Computation of moments is available in XFILES -> XCONTROL -> Line Fit Can't construct moments in anything other than absolute units. Also doesn't work with negative values retained. Can then, in XFILES, use moments OR the Gaussian fitting routine supplied by PRY.

HEM: This is assuming no blends and a single line per window? AG: When you select a line, you have to then specify the line and continuum interactively. If you have two lines very close to each other, you can choose only a few pixels plus continuum to choose just that line. But if there is a blend then it won't work.

After the line and contin. are selected, the 0th, 1st, and 2nd order moments are computed. The last term 2*ln(2) is necessary to turn sigma into the FWHM. That's it.

XFILES also gives you the errors on these moments for intensity and velocity. The error on the line width hasn't been implemented yet.

HEM: is there documentation for this yet? What you said is really useful, but is there a written version of it.

Brief discussion followed about the desire for tutorials and guides.

1.2.2 Useful additional software#

(With descriptions or demonstrations)

• 10:15 Gaussian fitting routines for EIS (Peter Young)

EIS_AUTO_FIT and EIS_AUTO_FIT_GEN (newer) both available.

When you want to fit multiple gaussians the latter is better (?)

You might want to add many spatial pixels together to make a total or mean spectrum.

You can select sub-regions of the array.

eis_auto_fit, windata, fitdata, refwvl=195.12

1. First choose the FITS file I want to look at.
2. I then choose a pre-calibrated file
3. extract the window data with EIS_GET_WINDATA
4. choose one at 264 Å
5. eis_mk_fit_template averages the spectrum over space
6. go to the window, select the lines roughly and the continuum
7. wanted to speed up the fitting for this talk, so...
8. have a routine that takes the windata and rebins it by some factor which gives you that factor^2 less pixels to fit
9. then read fit template eis_read_fit_template
10. then start the fitting process, which takes a while, meantime...

The fit template stores the initial guesses as a text file which you can modify if you want to.

GAD: How accurate does it have to be? PRY: Not too accurate. In this case the lines are quite widely spaced, GAD: But how about if they're close together PB: in the case where there is a blend, then in some cases I found I had to restrict the parameters, e.g. fixing the widths to be the same PRY: You could try the lines having a narrow range of width? PB: what I did was to force the widths to be equal, which meant I had to change the code a bit PRY: sometimes you have to write a more specialised routine, because it's difficult to write something completely general? YKK: Is the continuum fixed as linear? PRY: yes, linear or constant

okay, the fit has finished:

1. when yo do the orbital correction, have to specify a line -- in this case line 1.
2. you can then view the quality of the fit with FIT_VIEWER
3. see the I, V and dl maps. Click on a position and you see the spectrum AND fit.

It's available in SSW, and there's a tutorial on the web to show you how to use it.

That was the Gaussian fitting.

I also mentioned that sometimes you see a BP, for example, and you want to add all the pixels' spectra together. Arbitrary spatial pixels. It's complicated by the grating tilt and inter-channel offset, but that can be taken care of with this software.

I'll use the same dataset as before. Have a simple routine that makes an image in the specified line. eis_make_image

eis_pixel_mask to make the mask...

how is the pixel mask stored?

This performs the averaging and gives you a Channel A (long) and Channel B (short) spectrum.

In spec_gauss you can see the data quality with the yellow line (something to do with number of missing pixels?)

Just wanted to show the Gaussian fitting routines I wrote.

• Auto fits single
• Auto fits multiple
• Spatially averaged spectra

uses EIS_CCD_OFFSET for each wavelength in the spectrum to compensate for intra-channel vertical offsets.

• 10:35 A quick display method (David Williams)

Coffee#

10:40 to 11:00

1.3 Choosing data#

• 11:00 Discussion on Data access

There are huge volumes of EIS data, but it would be good to have a discussion on how to go about accessing the kind of data you're looking for.

It seems like it's possible to cross-match the EIS and RHESSI catalogues already. RM has done this. And HPW will talk to SDO AIA people to discuss their requirements for integrating our information with the Heliospheric knowledge base.

Ultimately, though, it might be good to set up ways to make event catalogues; it could be possible for people to construct and contribute custom cataloguing/data-mining routines.

Seems like we have issues more with the Wiki than with Data Access per se, though.

• HEM suggested Nuggets à la Hudson for RHESSI.
• KPD felt that we weren't advertising or communicating enough.
• DRW felt that it was easy and good to put information on the EISWiki.

2 Science#

2.1 EIS Science Achievements#

Each national PI will give their perspective on the scientific achievements of EIS in its first 2.5 years. These are personal perspectives on where we stand on two things:

1. phenomena and scientific issues that were known before launch
2. the discoveries Hinode has made with EIS

( they won't necessarily agree :-) )

11:30 Tetsuya Watanabe#

• Correlation of Doppler speed and non-thermal width implies unresolved flows in acrive regions.

Magnetic reconnection, if it at all takes place for coronal heating, is far below the height of the reconnection point that causes major flares.

• Recent results from DHB: even if we look at 1 arcsec pixel of Quiet Sun, we usually have the same shape of EM distributions. Unresolved very common nature of a plasma temperature distribution that causes this universal shape of DEM even in a size less than 1".
• Triggered by Sakao et al.'s observations, we observe high-velocity outflows, although they're slow in the solar wind sense. We've actually found plasma upflows taking place close to coronal holes and quiet Sun beside active regions. The same sort of mechanism took place the data analysed by Imada after the largest 20061213 flare. In quiet regions, the kinetic energy is roughly enough to heat the QS corona.

• 20061217 LDE was analysed by Hara: Reconnection inflows seen in LOS velocity by HH;
• 20060519 flare: EIS counterpart of a Masuda source? The EIS slit was very lucily at the flaring loop top when its initial phase started. TRACE shows a clear two-ribbon pattern; RHESSI image contours for 12 - 25 keV which show a high-temperature RHESSI structure. Fe XXIII emission corresponding to it shows a slight red-shift.

• 20061213 flare seems to show a fast-mode shock propagation, seen by Asai et al. This shock propagates close to the Alfven velocity in the quiet solar corona.

• 20070606 Chromosphere evaporation. at the beginning, no blueshift in Fe XXIII. But blueshifts seen in all four footpoints of the flaring loops. In the final image where you see loop in Fe XXIII, the position of the high-temperature line is moving back to rest. So we actually see very dynamic and violent chr'c evaporation in this event. Plasma evaporation has a very fine structure, too. In this particular flare (20070116),we just observe the middle of a C flare (post-impulsive phase). Even then, the line profile of Fe XXIII is diferent from one location to the next. The blue-shift itself is not so strong, but the entire line width is much larger in one place. Wile in Fe XV, the bottom line shows a down-flow in certain parts of a flaring loop. So the plasma motions are very complicated, of course depending on the phase of the flare, but it also depends on whether we're seeing elementary loops; that part is beyond our resolution, though.

• Diagnostics:
  • EIS can observe emission lines from Fe VIII to Fe XXIV! So without relative abundance uncertainties, we can make ionsiation temperature diagnostics from log T = 5.6 to 7.3.

Thanks to the high resolution of the EIS grating, we detected a huge number of Fe lines with various ionisation species, much less blended than in spectra taken ever before. E.g, Fe XIII in the short wavelength band. TW showed the EIS spectrum versus a lab spectrum taken by the National Institute for Fusion Sciences, but the latter's spectrograph isn't as good as an orbital spectrograph(!). Due to this high spectral resolution, EIS spectra are used to check data for the high-density limit.

• • High-T lines: Warren et al.; Patsourakos & Klimchuk (2006)

TJ Wang commented that the Sakao flows may be waves already seen with TRACE.

11:50 Louise Harra#

• Reconnection Jets: Kamio
• Enhanced non-thermal broadenings at footpoints: Hara; evidence of nano-flare heating?
• Turbulence is stronger outside the bright loops: Doschek; possibly consistent with some kind of wave-generated heating?
• Oscillations within a loop: Mariska; temperature dependence of decay times with temperature (Fe stage)
• Wide range of oscillations in different parts of active regions: O'Shea & Doyle

Transient phenomena

• have observed mass motions in all transient phenomena
• are also observing pre-event phenomena
• Energy transfer: work is beginning but there needs to be a lot more cross-connection with SOT.
• Can now observe the region where reconnection may be observing
• Tripathi & Kliem: looking at where flux ropes may be formed: Fe XV emission takes the form of two J-shapes, but the cooler emission in Fe XII takes an S-shape form, which lies along the inversion line, and they measure flux cancellation there. This, and work by Green et al. shows rope forming gradually rather than being formed frombelow the surface.
• Sakao, Marsch, Del Zanna, Doschek all did work on outflows
  • If you do the force-free extrapolation, you get open or highly-extended field lines where the outflows seem to be coming from
  • Baker & Mandrini did work on where the QSLs might be and found them to be in regions of outflows. Seems to suggest that magnetic reconnection seems to drive the outflows. What this does do is not necessarily say that waves aren't there, but that the source of them is where the QSLs are. Reconnection is taking place and waves are formed, but the key thing is that it's happening at the QSLs.
• CMEs: 20061214, there was a loss of plasma; the source region of the CME is seen; can now understand the morphology of dimming regions in ways we couldn't before. van Driel is looking CME expansion into the solar wind. Loop-like dimmings show persistent brightenings(?)
  • Imada showed temperature-dependent outflow.

So we

• Upflows in ARs. We know they're persistently seen at the edges of ARs. Showed one beside a coronal hole. There's an intensification of the upflows about 4 or 5 hours before a CME. even for smaller events, can see pre-event signatures.

Last goal is energy transfer from the photosphere to the corona.

• Murray: signatures of active region expansion: AR in a coronal hole. There's a pressure gradient that accelerates the plasma vertically.
• Brooks: transient brightenings: transient brightenings in areas of flux collision, not in areas connected to hot loops.

Things we need to do:

1. Find out what lies above the kG fields in CHs
2. Find reconnection inflow
3. Relate different oscillations to the magnetic environment
4. Link outflows in ARs to solar wind measured by STEREO/HI and ACE
5. Find other examples of shock waves and understand their relation with temperature

Lunch#

12:30 to 13:30

12:10 George Doschek#

Took a slightly different approach than Tetsuya and Louise. I talked to NASA about giving press releases, and they want to know what major problems you've solved!

One of the probs at NRL we've been working on is AR loops. If we could say how loops are really heated, we could go far towards solving the coronal heating problem, and that's a press release that NASA would really be interested in. We're in the "middle" of modelling them. The real important thing we have is the density, so we can check models of heating and cooling of loops. Most of these loops are not in equilibrium. By measuring the densities in the cooling, we can really check models. Seems now that the most common model for things like Fe XII is that it's a loop around 1.5 MK. The kind of theory that best explains the observations is a loop made up of strands that heat and cool sequentially in some sense explains why they last longer than the cooling time. You can also measure path lengths when you have the densities, so you can tell if you have unresolved structures.

Warren et al. 2008 Apj 686 L131 The loops seem to cool together, so the DEM doesn't get very wide.

Loop filling factors are about 10%. The densities from Fe XII are about 0.5 dex too high versus Fe XIII. So it's critical to do the atomic physics for these ions better, and to check them against densities from other ions, like silicon. So we get these tiny fillin factors, but they seem to be doubtful. IN summary, though, we have tremendous progress, but we're left with some big questions and need to improve the atomic physics.

IUU made a slot flare movie: loop models; it would be good to make serious progress by the time of the senior review.

We observed Ca XVII and we can now separate it out from the Fe XI and O V blends. It can now be used by people much more reliably if you know what you're looking for. YKK has developed a procedure for unfolding these that soon non-spectroscopists can use to use this 5MK line, so it extends the DEM temperature range posible from EIS. We didn't appreciate this blend when we picked this line, but glad we picked it; we didn't appreciate the density sensitivity either. Didn't appreciate the fact that lower TR lines like O V and VI are reasonably strong in our data, because Skylab only saw O V lines in flares: change of principle quantum number, so it takes a lot of energy. Those things have been a surprise, but making progress.

Here's another example of unfolding the Ca XVII emission. Can extend our analysis of ARs to high T.

Louise and Tetsuya mentioned flows, and those come from regions that are normally dark. The Fe XII intensity shows wide, shifted lines in dark areas. XRT also seeing this sort of thing, but you don't know if you're looking at a flow or a wave. John and Harry thought they were waves, but they turn out to be flows. They're over extended regions. You also see them in these broad regions. When I sent a paper in on this, I think it was reviewed by people who worked in the heliosphere. e.g. Liewer, Neugebauer & Zurbuchen 2004 (SoPh 223, 209) who expect flows at the edges of active regions. Haven't been able to link the flows to colder material. They occur where the field is more or less monopolar, but don't know if these field lines are really going into the heliosphere or just form long loops.

They're also a f(T) and many active regions have a blue-shifted flow component. You therefore get a correlation between the flow velocity and the width.

John Mariska has found waves in coronal loops. These waves present a problem, becuase they don't fit a strand model: so how can you see a coherent wave feature across the whole loop?

Also in ARs, if you look at SUMER data in the corona and make a Jordan loci fit, you get a single temperature of 1.4 MK. But when you go on the disk, you don't see that at all. need to work on this to try to resolve it.

Quiet Sun has been really quiet. KPD finds <<1.0 filling factors in bright points. Really important ot understand what the densities really are.

We've been lucky to see flares. We've only seen one limb event (20061217). We'd like to see inflows. We really need to see a bunch of M flares. Observe the sites of evaporation and footpoints and see if they correspond to the general standard models that people have for flares.

When we see the footpoints, we can actually see evaporation.

We can probably do a lot more on polar jets; many more observations would probably be very useful to have as we're the only ones who can observe their properties.

Finally, EIS-SUMER campaigns: we wanted to calibrate EIS with SUMER if we could. With EIS and SUMER you get an isothermal corona. If you apply the calibration, they agree within instrumental errors. But the atomic dat for EIS are a little more messy. We have very little checks on ionisation balance. We measure temperatures well above the ionisation equilibrium temperature. The longer we can't figure it out, the more interesting it becomes. Perhaps non-thermal particles penetrate into the TR? That would be extremely interesting. Enrico Landi put recombination in, even though they're Li-like, and so simple. So we can make more measurements like this.

Finally (finally), something we can do is measurements with STEREO. Aschwanden is doing a lot with STEREO, but hasn't yet got involved in EIS.

A summary of what we ought to be doing.

• what are filling factors in loops
• do nF models work in loops
• do flows go into the solar wind
• how hot ARE active regions (Ca XVII)

• analuysis with SOT of EEs

• Check the standard flare model
• many problems in CHs.

There are several kinds of problems we can attack.

KPD: I think the flows were hinted at with Skylab GAD: True, but the new thing is that they're measurable, although it's difficult to say that we've seen antyyhing new so far.

PRY: is the density in the outflows different? PB: haven't done that yet

JTM: just a comment on all three talks: hadn't appreciated how much we've done. But we've never fulfilled yet the promise of integrating with the other instruments, and I suspect the real discoveries are going to be from doing that. I hope that when we come back next year, we'll have made a start.

HEM: any possibility of having any workshops? JTM: This could be a good time to start this.

GAD: coalingnments are very challenging for co-observing JTM: but it can be addressed in some meaningful way.

2.2 EIS Science Results#

Speakers are encouraged to put special emphasis on unsolved components in the context of what they talk about, and how they can be addressed using all three instruments on Hinode.

2.2.1 Active Regions#

• 13:30 Cambridge active region studies (Helen Mason)
  • Studies of small ARs and Flares
    • Moss (Tripathi et al., 2008)
    • AR Jets (Chifor et al., 2008)
    • AR microflares and precursors to filament eruptions (Chifor et al., 2008, 2009)
    • Small flares (Del Zanna, 2008)
    • AR flows (Del Zanna, 2008)
    • AR loops: n_e, T_e and flows (Tripathi et al. 2009)
    • Small flare activity (Mitra et al., 2009)

• • This presentation

Small active region close to the limb Can take the n_e ratio as we go from the disc to off-limb. We can also attempt to get the temperature in a simple way. Never subscribed to this before, but I'm showing a plot! We want to see how hot the temperature is. But if you take Fe XVI / Fe XV, you can see that the core is very hot around log(T) 6.7. We've done the same for Fe XIV / Fe XIII, we get a lot more, interesting structure, which we need to follow up and invesigate. We want to look for these higher temperature lines, but must be really careful about removing blends. The Fe XVII line is a good line to use.

When looking at Ca XVII, you can't use the CHIANTI Fe XI ratio, as it's wrong. But you can do it empirically by finding the ratio on the quiet Sun and then using that to remove the blend with Ca XVII.

Then we compared the XRT and EIS data and wanted to cross-calibrate the DEMs -- but they look nothing like each other! So we can't yet use EIS and XRT to have large-T coverage DEMs that we believe.

GAD: those limb-brightening curves about the limb: do you have O IV and O V? Cos that's a check on the scattered light? HEM: they do fall off quite sharply

PRY: For the AR, there was a paper last year that showed three separate isothermal components in the corona. HEM: that's difficult for me to believe.

• 13:45 The thermal structure of active regions (Harry Warren)

Let's look at some CDS data taken above the limb, and it looks consistent with an isothermal plasma. Fairly well-established result. Now let's look with EIS. One of the things we found with SUMER is that the Si data seems to behave pretty well. Assume a delta-function EM and formalise the fit parameters. Get a pretty good fit. The density is being adjusted with intensity. The encouraging thing with EIS is that we get a similar result with the big strong lines that everyone includes in their studies. one thing that is unsettling is that the magnitude of the EM is different! This could mean Si / Fe ratio in the abundances of Feldman is wrong.

That's what can be done.

When you bring in Fe XIV - Fe XVI, they don't lie on the curves. So is there some dispersion in the temperature distribution? Then we end up with a fairly narrow distribution, but it doesn't account for the higher temperatures.

So another thing we've considered is MCMC used in PINTofALE. We also see a tail extending down to higher T. This accounts very well, but although tempting, it's not clear, because the ionisation fractions become very unclear as you get away from their peaks. Or maybe we really do have a tail in the DEM!

Ca XIV thru XVII help us to probe the high-T lines. Their contribution functions are narrower than the equivelant-T Fe species. Ca XIV and XV lines are fairly strong, and we should reconsider AR observations so that they include these lines.

GAD showed earlier an AR movie: I wanted to comment that the we show the Ko et al. deconvolution of Ca XVII.

As we move out from the core of the AR, we see the high-temperature emission coming down. Just because you dno't see any signal doesn't mean there's something wrong. Can still offer useful constraint for analysis. Something interesting is that the EM

Modelling evolving coronal loops with narrow-angle STEREO. Aschwanden has put a package on SSW for measuring loops' 3D geometry.

We're doing mutli-thread modelling of loops: we can calculate the expected lifetime of the loop, but it lasts much longer. We've put to gether such a multi-thread model. Good matches to TRACE loop lifetimes. Another independent check is the DEM. Can approximate observed lifetime and DEM.

The way we motivate the heating in a loop, the higher the density, the more energy you've to put in.

We try to reproduce the XRT loops, and can't find those loops. May be that we can't find loops in XRT due to the morphology.

Would love to see the EIS slit over a post-flare loop arcade.

An important goal for the future. So, to summarise:

• QS above the limb
• AR DEMs
• Evolving loops.

HEM: I'm still confused by the isothermality... the heating models might predict a high-temperature tail. HPW: There's no physical interpretation, that's what's so difficult to understand. Essentially indpendent of height. Maybe there is this hi-T component. HEM: just not high-enough T lines? HPW: We have Fe XV. There are always probs with atomic data, like Li-like lines... KPD: One of the Fe XII lines could be being misidentified as Fe XI HPW: It's hard to see how, because the ratio is extremely constant. PRY: I remember fitting the lines, and the ratio was very flat.

GAD: Helen, you didn't get this isothermal plasma, but was it in an AR? HPW: I thought it was in an AR?

Discussion continued....!

• 14:00 Multi-component active region flows (Paul Bryans)

Seems like almost everyone has spoken about outflows!

Seems a correlation between outflow speed and line widths. Can these widths be attributed to multiple components with different speeds? One such AR, we have observations as the AR rotates from east to west across the disc. The dominant outflow region seems to change position, but this could be a geometric effect.

Fit Fe XII 195, Fe XII 192, Fe XIII 202. Have used one of PRY's codes to fit a double Gaussian. Correlation between width and velocity remains, although it's not quite so clear for the smaller component at larger blue-shifts. These data are taken from each pixel in a box around the outflow region. Only done for the one active region, because the Gaussians were well separated.

LKH: does it change with time in the series of rasters you showed. PB: not by much

KPD: The interesting thing is in the change of one flow region from redshifts to blueshifts.

In the core of the AR, the blend to the red side of the line becomes more important at higher densities.

GAD: how did you determine your zero velocity? PB: Took a horizontal slice along the bottom

JTM: based on muliple simulations of loop flow problems, you have to be careful when fitting that if you choose two lumps of plasma: one moving and another static. I think Ken had the right idea when he used moments because you could use things like skew. that might be what this is telling you. PB:

• 14:15 Flows & motions in moss in the core of a flaring active region (David Brooks)

2.2.2 Flares#

• 14:30 Evaporated Plasma (Ryan Milligan)

2.3 Where to next for EIS science?#

14:45 to 15:15 Not only having listened to the contributions given this afternoon, but also having considered our progress in achieving EIS's main science goals — both pre- and post-launch — it would be good to have a discussion before and after coffee on what burning questions we think are obviously being left unanswered.

I'd like to budget 30 minutes for this.

Afternoon Tea#

15:15

2.4 Analysis Techniques#

• 15:30 Line identifications with EIS and CHIANTI (Peter Young)
• 15:50 Diagnostics with the slot (Ignacio Ugarte)

2.4 Observing Techniques & Strategies#

What we’ve learned to date on observing with the S-band antenna

• 16:10 Some techniques for observing (David Williams)
• 16:20 Raster stitching (David Brooks)
  • Problems
  • Some examples of studies that have proven useful in overcoming these problems
  • Prospects & challenges for the future:
• How do we address observing challenging targets like flares?
  • 16:25 Flares (Ryan Milligan)
  • 16:45 Very active regions (Harry Warren / John Mariska)
• 17:05 Observation Planning - Core Team proposals and HOPS (Len Culhane)

4 EIS Website & Wiki#

17:15 These are our public face for information. It would be good to talk about:

• Changes made since last year
• How to increase participation
• Good practice
  • Keeping the contents up-to-date
• New types of content

5 Action Items and Wrap-up#

17:45

6 終わり#

18:00 END

Confirmed Attendees#

• Khalid al-Janabi (MSSL)
• Danielle Bewsher (RAL)
• David Brooks (NRL)
• Charlie Brown (NRL)
• Paul Bryans (NRL)
• Len Culhane (MSSL)
• Ken Dere (GMU)
• George Doschek (US PI; NRL)
• Alessandro Gardini (UiO)
• Hirohisa Hara (NAOJ)
• Louise Harra (PI; MSSL)
• Shinsuke Imada (NAOJ)
• Yuan-Kuen Ko (NRL)
• John Mariska (NRL)
• Helen Mason (DAMTP)
• Keiichi Matsuzaki (ISAS)
• Ryan Milligan (GSFC)
• Karin Muglach (NRL)
• Steve Myers (NRL)
• John Rainnie (RAL)
• Toshifumi Shimizu (ISAS)
• Ignacio Ugarte Urra (NRL)
• Harry Warren (NRL)
• Tetsuya Watanabe (Japan PI; NAOJ)
• David Williams (MSSL)
• Peter Young (NRL)

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