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AN: SH11A-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Heliospheric Photometric Images and 3D Reconstruction from the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) Data
AU: * Jackson, B V
EM: bvjackson@ucsd.edu
AF: Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, LaJolla, CA 92093-0424
AU: Buffington, A
EM: abuffington@ucsd.edu
AF: Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, LaJolla, CA 92093-0424
AU: Hick, P P
EM: pphick@ucsd.edu
AF: Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, LaJolla, CA 92093-0424
AB: The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) experiment is fixed to the Coriolis spacecraft and views the sky above Earth using sunlight-rejecting baffles and CCD camera technology. SMEI was designed to provide precise photometric white light images over most of the sky on each 102-minute Earth orbit. The brightness sky maps of the inner heliosphere indicate a rich variety of electron density structures that are produced by the material that propagates through it and its interaction with ambient structures. We present some of the preliminary results of the analysis of these photometric SMEI observations derived by modeling the white light observations such that most of the contaminant signals: stars, the zodiacal cloud and high-energy particle variations are removed. We will also show some of the 3D reconstructions that allow this contaminant signal removal using both interplanetary scintillation (IPS) and SMEI data.
UR: http://cass185.ucsd.edu/smei/smei.html
DE: 7513 Coronal mass ejections
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 2102 Corotating streams
DE: 2111 Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds
DE: 2164 Solar wind plasma
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting