M. Focardi and M. Pancrazzi and M. Uslenghi and G. Nicolini and E. Magli and F. Landini and M. Romoli and A. Bemporad and E. Antonucci and S. Fineschi and G. Naletto and P. Nicolosi and D. Spadaro and V. Andretta
The Data Processing Electronics of the METIS Coronagraph aboard the ESA Solar Orbiter Mission
369 - 376
2012
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International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/2142
https://publications.waset.org/vol/63
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
METIS is the Multi Element Telescope for Imaging
and Spectroscopy, a Coronagraph aboard the European Space
Agencys Solar Orbiter Mission aimed at the observation of the solar
corona via both VIS and UVEUV narrowband imaging and spectroscopy. METIS, with its multiwavelength capabilities, will
study in detail the physical processes responsible for the corona heating and the origin and properties of the slow and fast solar wind.
METIS electronics will collect and process scientific data thanks to its detectors proximity electronics, the digital frontend subsystem
electronics and the MPPU, the Main Power and Processing Unit,
hosting a spacequalified processor, memories and some radhard
FPGAs acting as digital controllers.This paper reports on the overall
METIS electronics architecture and data processing capabilities
conceived to address all the scientific issues as a tradeoff solution between requirements and allocated resources, just before the
Preliminary Design Review as an ESA milestone in April 2012.
Open Science Index 63, 2012