Correcting Doppler Shifts in He II 30.38 nm Line by Using the EVE and AIA data from Solar Dynamics Observatory

TL;DR

This paper presents a method to correct Doppler shifts in the He II 30.38 nm solar emission line using AIA imaging data, improving the interpretation of solar coronal dynamics from EVE spectral observations.

Contribution

A novel correction technique utilizing AIA data to address non-uniform irradiance effects in EVE spectral measurements of the solar corona.

Findings

Half-month Doppler oscillations caused by active regions.

Correction reveals similar oscillations in other coronal lines.

Improved understanding of solar corona dynamics.

Abstract

The Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) detects the solar EUV spectra with high temporal cadence and spectral resolution. The wavelength shifts of emission lines provide key information of the dynamics of the Sun. However, some of EVE spectral observations are influenced by the non-uniformly distributed irradiance on the Sun, which may prevent us from correctly understanding the physical processes happened in the solar corona. Here, based on the only published on-orbit calibration data of EVE He II 30.38 nm line on 27 Jan 2011 (Chamberlin, 2016), we develop a method to correct the He II 30.38 nm line by using AIA 304 imaging data. This correction method is then applied to EVE He II 30.38 nm data from 29 Oct 2010 to 3 Mar 2011 to study the Doppler oscillations of the solar He II 30.38 nm line, in which we show that the half-month periodic Doppler oscillation is caused by non-uniformly distributed irradiance mainly due to the presence of active regions. Other EVE coronal lines also present similar Doppler oscillations, suggesting that an appropriate correction must be implemented before interpret the oscillation phenomena appearing in these lines.