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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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Quiescent prominence dynamics observed with the hinode solar optical telescope. i. turbulent upflow plumes

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed kinematic measurement of the small-scale turbulent upflows seen in several prominences in the SOT database is presented, and the authors conclude that buoyant plumes are a source of quiescent prominence mass as well as a mechanism by which prominence plasma is advected upward.
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Magnetism, dynamo action and the solar-stellar connection

TL;DR: Observations and theory of magnetism in the Sun and other stars are reviewed, with a partial focus on the “Solar-stellar connection”: ways in which studies of other stars have influenced the authors' understanding of theSun and vice versa.
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Jets in Coronal Holes: Hinode Observations and Three-dimensional Computer Modeling

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical experiment of flux emergence from the solar interior into a coronal hole and compare them with simultaneous XRT and EIS observations of a jet-launching event that accompanied the appearance of a bipolar region in MDI magnetograms.
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Thermal diagnostics with the atmospheric imaging assembly on board the solar dynamics observatory: a validated method for differential emission measure inversions

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for performing differential emission measure (DEM) inversions on narrow-band EUV images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory is presented.
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Physics of Solar Prominences: I - Spectral Diagnostics and Non-LTE Modelling

TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral inversion technique has been used to infer the plasma parameters important for the general properties of the prominence plasma in both its cool core and the hotter prominence-corona transition region.
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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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Sigmoidal morphology and eruptive solar activity

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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Statistical Study of Solar X-Ray Jets Observed with the YOHKOH Soft X-Ray Telescope

TL;DR: In this article, a statistical study of 100 X-ray jets, found from the database of full Sun images taken with the Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT) aboard Yohkoh during the period between November 1991 and April 1992, was conducted.
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