ACE Team Information: Coordinated Observations of Solar Disturbances

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1998 LASCO CME List

1996-1997 LASCO CME Lists (Version 2 - more complete)

1. You can contact the instrument team to see if anyone is analyzing the event. This can be difficult - often, the LASCO and EIT Principal Investigators are notorious for not answering email. Since they are most likely to find out about this website through electronic media, I can say this with almost complete impunity. For starters, you can either contact the Co-I of your choice (depending on which data set you're seeking) or you can send me an email Barbara.Thompson@gsfc.nasa.gov and I'll put you in touch with the people I think would be best to contact. Often, this means that you'll end up contacting the instrument team's PI after all, but at least it won't take you much time to find this out.

2. You can obtain and analyze the data (MDI, EIT and LASCO data are fully public and I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this). To do this, you will probably need the EIT User's Guide, the LASCO Handbook and the MDI User's Guide.

• The SOHO/LASCO Home Page features mpeg movies for each month since May 1996 for the C2 (2-6 solar radii), C3 (3-30 solar radii) coronagraphs and EIT 195 Angstroms (Fe XII). http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/daily_mpg/



• Near-Real-Time updated SOHO/LASCO and SOHO/EIT mpegs and animated gifs can be found at http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/rtmovies.html



• A nicer series of recent EIT movies in mpeg, animated gif and javascript format can be found at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sdb/http/eit_fullfov_java.html

• The SOHO Main Catalog provides easy access to multiple SOHO data sets. You can either access the data through the SOHO catalog, or through the instrument data sites.
• SOHO/MDI (Michelson-Doppler Imager) provides full-disk and high-resolution magnetograms.
  MDI User's Guide
  MDI Data Products
• Data from the three coronagraphs making up SOHO/LASCO (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph) can be accessed via the web. Please review the "Retrieving LASCO Data" page, which requests that you register your research efforts with the Principal Investigator.
  LASCO Data Retrieval Site
  The LASCO Handbook
• The SOHO/EIT (Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) takes images in four EUV wavelengths. The EIT Team requests that anyone interested in using EIT data fill out a Data Analysis Proposal, so the team can be aware of possible overlapping research efforts.
  The EIT User's Guide
  The SOHO/EIT WWW Catalog Interface lists data with specified criteria which is able to be downloaded.
• The SOHO Synoptic Data Base contains survey images (usually the cadence is about 1 per day) from supplementary observatories and spacecraft around the world. It's a good way to take a peek at a few gif's and get an idea of what the event looks like in multiple wavelengths.
• The SOHO Summary Database contains images from SOHO instruments (the Synoptic Database contains non-SOHO data), not all of the data, but they're in gif format so they're easy to take a look at.

• SHINE (Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment) is a group which combines members of different institutes and disciplines dedicated to the study of solar disturbances and their influence on the geospace environment. They have a working group dedicated to transient events, with several events as targets of focussed research. http://www.sel.noaa.gov/~vpizzo/shine/



• The ISTP (International Solar Terrestrial Physics) Program frequently sponsors Sun-Earth Connection Events at http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/events/



• Frequently, SXT (Soft X-ray Telescope) on the Yohkoh spacecraft features interesting solar eruptions as part of their "science nuggets." ftp://isass0.solar.isas.ac.jp/pub/sxt_co/index.html