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The Hinode(Solar-B)Mission: An Overview

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The Hinode satellite as discussed by the authors is the successor to the Yohkoh mission, which aims to understand how magnetic energy gets transferred from the photosphere to the upper atmosphere and results in explosive energy releases.
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The Hinode satellite (formerly Solar-B) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS/JAXA) was successfully launched in September 2006. As the successor to the Yohkoh mission, it aims to understand how magnetic energy gets transferred from the photosphere to the upper atmosphere and results in explosive energy releases. Hinode is an observatory style mission, with all the instruments being designed and built to work together to address the science aims. There are three instruments onboard: the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT), the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), and the X-Ray Telescope (XRT). This paper provides an overview of the mission, detailing the satellite, the scientific payload, and operations. It will conclude with discussions on how the international science community can participate in the analysis of the mission data.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of small-scale vortices inside magnetic flux tubes using numerical simulations, and whether they contribute to heating the chromosphere in a plage region were investigated.
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The Structure and Dynamics of the Quiet Corona from Observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode

TL;DR: In this article, the Hinode mission was used to provide an observational basis for understanding the heating and acceleration of coronal plasmas, and the results of these observations are presented and discussed.
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Power Spectra of Velocities and Magnetic Fields on the Solar Surface and their Dependence on the Unsigned Magnetic Flux Density

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed power spectral analysis of surface temperatures, velocities, and magnetic fields using spectropolarimetric data taken with the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope.
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Rapid Enhancement of Sheared Evershed Flow Along the Neutral Line Associated with an X6.5 Flare Observed by Hinode

TL;DR: In this paper, G-band and Ca-II H observations of NOAA AR 10930 obtained by Hinode/SOT on 2006 December 6 covering an X6.5 flare were used to confirm the rapid decay of outer penumbrae and darkening of the central structure near the flaring neutral line, and unambiguously detect for the first time the enhancement of the sheared Evershed flow (average horizontal flow speed increased from 330 ± 3.1 to 403 ± 4.6
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EUV Emission and Scattered Light Diagnostics of Equatorial Coronal Holes as Seen by Hinode/EIS

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of instrument-scattered light on observations of equatorial coronal holes made by the Hinode/EIS spectrometer in two different phases of the solar cycle.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the reconnection region as the site of particle acceleration, suggesting that the basic physics of the magnetic reconnection process may be common to both types of flares.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the Yohkoh Soft X-Ray Telescope video movie for 1993 and 1997 and found that regions are significantly more likely to be eruptive if they are either sigmoidal or large.
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Hot-Plasma Ejections Associated with Compact-Loop Solar Flares

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