MAX '91 Coordination and High Time Resolution Studies of Solar Activity

MAX '91计划在太阳活动极大期91-94期间研究太阳活动，重点是协调现有设施以及新的气球、火箭和地面仪器的观测结果。Alan Kiplinger担任Max '91协调员，并在过去几年中领导了三次主要的全球运动。他支持了几次火箭飞行，并在NOAA的空间环境实验室建立了一个接近实时的太阳能计算机数据库。研究人员建议在太阳活动极大期的剩余时间内，通过支持几个新的主要活动，火箭和气球飞行以及“机会目标”活动，继续进行Max '91计划的协调。这种支持包括分发带有规划信息的活动公告，以及提供太阳活动图和列表的活动摘要，以及在世界范围内进行的汇编观测。协调员还建议继续开发可供科学界使用和分发给科学界的新产品和数据库。一个例子是开发一个数字档案系统，每天从位于世界各地的五个全职美国空军SOON天文台捕获5500张数字图像。这些数据应该成为研究耀斑触发、耀斑积累和能量学以及活动区域演化的重要基础。事实证明，协调员积极追求独立研究对Max '91以及他的长期研究目标都是有益的。在此基础上，提出了高速摄像系统的各种研究方向。这些研究包括对追求电子飞行时间效应的脉冲耀斑的新观察。其他提出的研究包括对活性细丝形成的光学观测、微波尖峰爆发和对系统的升级，以获得时间分辨率为0.4s的耀斑线偏振测量。

The proposal MAX '91 plans to study solar activity during the period of solar maximum 91-94 with emphasis on coordination of observations from existing facilities, as well as from new balloon, rocket and ground-based instrumentation. Alan Kiplinger has acted in the capacity of Max '91 Coordinator and has conducted three major worldwide campaigns in the last few years. He supported several rocket flights, and set up a near- real-time solar computer data base at NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory. The investigator proposes to continue to carry out coordination of the Max '91 program during the remainder of solar maximum by operationally supporting several new major campaigns, rocket and balloon flights and "target of opportunity" campaigns. This support includes distributions of Campaign Announcements with planning information,as well as Campaign Summaries which provide plots and lists of solar activity and compilations observations conducted worldwide. The Coordinator also proposes to continue to develop new products and data bases which can be used by and distributed to the scientific community. An example is development of a digital archival system to capture 5,500 digital images per day from the five fulltime U.S.A.F. SOON observatories located around the world. These data should become a significant cornerstone of observations for studies of flares triggering, flare build-up and energetics, as well as active region evolution. A vigorous pursuit of independent research by the Coordinator has proven to be beneficial to Max '91 as well as to his long-term research goals. Accordingly, a variety of studies with the High Speed Ho Camera system also are proposed. These studies include new observations of impulsive flares in pursuit of electron time of flight effects. Other proposed studies include optical observations of formations of active filaments, microwave spike bursts and an upgrade of the system to obtain measurements of linear polarization in flares with a temporal resolution of 0.4s.