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IRIS Level 2 Calibrated Images and Spectra Data

Pontieu, Bart, De (2025). IRIS Level 2 Calibrated Images and Spectra Data [Data set]. Lockheed Martin United States; Hinode Science Data Centre Europe. https://doi.org/10.48322/k079-z133.

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Description

This data set contains calibrated level-2 images and spectra data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).

UV images from IRIS telescope record observations of features as small
as 240 km (150 miles) on the sun every five to ten seconds at specific
temperatures, ranging from 5,000 K to 120,000 K (and up to 10 million
K during solar flares). This range allows observations of material
moving between the surface of the sun, called the photosphere, and in
the lowermost layers of the atmosphere, called the chromosphere and
transition region.

Spectra are obtained every two to thirty seconds along a slit (1/3
arcsec wide) of solar material at temperatures from 5,000 K to 10
million K, providing information on exactly how much light is visible
from any specific wavelength. This corresponds to how much material
is present at specific velociites, temperatures and densities.

The level-2 data is corrected for dark current, flat-field, and
geometric deformation, scaled to the same plate-scale, and packaged
into timeseries of slitjaw images and spectral raster scans.

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IRIS Level 2 Calibrated Images and Spectra Data
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48322/k079-z133
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2025-12-04 13:29:37Z
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2020-07-07 21:14:39Z
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Description

This data set contains calibrated level-2 images and spectra data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).

UV images from IRIS telescope record observations of features as small
as 240 km (150 miles) on the sun every five to ten seconds at specific
temperatures, ranging from 5,000 K to 120,000 K (and up to 10 million
K during solar flares). This range allows observations of material
moving between the surface of the sun, called the photosphere, and in
the lowermost layers of the atmosphere, called the chromosphere and
transition region.

Spectra are obtained every two to thirty seconds along a slit (1/3
arcsec wide) of solar material at temperatures from 5,000 K to 10
million K, providing information on exactly how much light is visible
from any specific wavelength. This corresponds to how much material
is present at specific velociites, temperatures and densities.

The level-2 data is corrected for dark current, flat-field, and
geometric deformation, scaled to the same plate-scale, and packaged
into timeseries of slitjaw images and spectral raster scans.

Acknowledgement
IRIS is a NASA small explorer mission developed and operated by LMSAL with mission operations executed at NASA Ames Research center and major contributions to downlink communications by ESA and NSC (Norway).
PublicationInfo
Authors
Pontieu, Bart, De
PublicationDate
2025-11-14 16:01:53Z
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Lockheed Martin United States; Hinode Science Data Centre Europe
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at the IRIS LMSAL site

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IRIS Data User's Guide
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IRIS Data User's Guide

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view IRIS data today

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Planned observations for IRIS
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Planned observations for IRIS

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Recent IRIS observations

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Data Search with Six Widgets
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CC0 1.0 Universal is the Creative Commons license applicable to all publicly available NASA Heliophysics data products
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