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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Performance Analysis of the SO/PHI Software Framework for On-board Data Reduction

K. AlbertJ. HirzbergerD. BusseJ. Blanco RodriguezJ. S. Castellanos DuranJuan Pedro Cobos CarrascosaB. FietheA. GandorferY. GuanM. KolleckA. LaggT. LangeH. MichalikS. K. SolankiJosé Carlos Del ToroJ. Woch

subject

Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar AstrophysicsAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsFOS: Physical sciencesAstrophysics::Solar and Stellar AstrophysicsComputerSystemsOrganization_SPECIAL-PURPOSEANDAPPLICATION-BASEDSYSTEMSAstrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

description

The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is the first deep-space solar spectropolarimeter, on-board the Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. It faces: stringent requirements on science data accuracy, a dynamic environment, and severe limitations on telemetry volume. SO/PHI overcomes these restrictions through on-board instrument calibration and science data reduction, using dedicated firmware in FPGAs. This contribution analyses the accuracy of a data processing pipeline by comparing the results obtained with SO/PHI hardware to a reference from a ground computer. The results show that for the analyzed pipeline the error introduced by the firmware implementation is well below the requirements of SO/PHI.

http://hdl.handle.net/10261/205425