Review of Hinode results

Hinode is an observatory-style satellite, carrying three advanced instruments being designed and built to work together to explore the physical coupling between the photosphere and the upper layers for understanding the mechanism of dynam- ics and heating. The three instruments aboard are the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT), which can provide high-precision photometric and polarimetric data of the lower atmosphere in the visible light (388–668 nm) with a spatial resolution of 0.2–0.3 arcseconds, the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) which takes a wide field of full sun coverage X-ray images being capable of diagnosing the physical condition of coronal plasmas, and the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) which observes the upper transition region and coronal emission lines in the wavelength ranges of 17–21 nm and 25–29 nm. Since first-light observations in the end of October 2006, Hinode has been continuously providing unprecedented high-quality solar data. We will present some new findings of the sun with Hinode, focusing on those from SOT (© 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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