A Digital Archival System for Solar Images Obtained by the USAF Solar Observing Optical Network (SOON)

这项提议的目的是，通过提供资金购买所需的记录设备，从世界各地的五个全天候太阳活动观测中保存约5 500幅图像，从而大大提高我们目前太阳活动区域和活动的数字图像数据库的数量和质量。我们计划在五个站点安装双Exabyte 2.3 GB磁带机，每个站点每天归档大约1,100个选定的映像。这一存档过程的目的是向整个科学界提供这些宝贵的数据，以便对耀斑和活动区演化进行详细研究。这一努力的目的是通过以高空间分辨率和中等时间分辨率对大多数太阳活动区提供前所未有的连续复盖，加强太阳物理界的基础设施。我们认为，拟议的Soon图像档案数据库的建立将成为有关耀斑触发、耀斑形成和能量学以及活动区演化的观测的主要基石。这个近乎连续的太阳数据集需要保存并(以一种方便的方式)交到太阳物理界手中，并与其他数据进行比较，以提供对太阳耀斑的新理解。

The purpose of the proposal is to significantly enhance the quantity and quality of our current data base of digital images of solar active regions and activity by providing funds to purchase the recording equipment needed to save approximately 5,500 images per day from the five full-time SOON observations located around the world. We plan to install dual Exabyte 2.3 Gbyte tape drives at the five sites and to archive approximately 1,100 selected images per day per site. The purpose for this archival process is to make these invaluable data available to the entire scientific community for detailed studies of flares and active region evolution. The effort is intended to augment the infrastructure of the solar physics community by providing an unprecedented continuous coverage of the majority of solar active regions with high spatial resolution and moderate temporal resolution. We believe that the creation of the proposed archival data base of SOON images will form a major cornerstone of observations relating to flare triggering, flare build-up and energetics as well as active region evolution. This nearly continuous solar data set needs to be saved and placed (in a convenient way) in the hands of the solar physics community and compared with other data to provide new understandings of solar flares.