Joseph M. Davila

TL;DR: The Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) is a five telescope package, which has been developed for the Solar Terrestrial Relation Observatory (STEREO) mission.

TL;DR: The twin STEREO spacecraft were launched on October 26, 2006, at 00:52 UT from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Delta 7925 launch vehicle to understand the causes and mechanisms of coronal mass ejection (CME) initiation and follow the propagation of CMEs through the inner heliosphere to Earth as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) as mentioned in this paper is a two-element, normal incidence design with a backside-illuminated, thinned CCD, which has a significantly greater effective area than previous orbiting EUV spectrographs with typical active region 2 -5 s exposure times in the brightest lines.

TL;DR: The imaging telescope on board the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer spacecraft observed the decaying transversal oscillations of a long and thin coronal loop in the 171 angstrom Fe(IX) emission line, finding the coronal dissipation coefficient to be eight to nine orders of magnitude larger than the theoretically predicted classical value.

TL;DR: In this article, the wave equation for a dissipative, compressible plasma is derived from the linearized magnetohydrodynamic equations for a plasma with transverse Alfven speed gradients.