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The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: continuing operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope

  • Sean G. Sellers*
  • , Juie Shetye
  • , Damian J. Christian
  • , David B. Jess
  • , Peter H. Keys
  • , Gordon A. MacDonald
  • , R. T.James McAteer
  • , Jason Jackiewicz
  • , Colin Hancock
  • , Michael S. Thompson
  • , Jamey E. Eriksen
  • , Sara Jeffreys
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive (SSODA) stores data acquired with the suite of instruments at the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) from February 2018 to the present. The instrumentation at the DST continues to provide high cadence imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of the solar photosphere and chromosphere across a wavelength range from 3500\r{A} to 11,000\r{A}. At time of writing, the archive contains approximately 374 TiB of data across more than 520 observing days (starting on February 1, 2018). These numbers are approximate as the DST remains operational, and is actively adding new data to the archive. The SSODA includes both raw and calibrated data. A subset of the archive contains the results of photospheric and chromospheric spectropolarimetric inversions using the Hazel-2.0 code to obtain maps of magnetic fields, temperatures, and velocity flows. The SSODA represents a unique resource for the investigation of plasma processes throughout the solar atmosphere, the origin of space weather events, and the properties of active regions throughout the rise of Solar Cycle 25.
Original languageEnglish
Article number103
JournalSolar Physics
Volume300
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jul 2025

Bibliographical note

31 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to Solar Physics

Keywords

  • Instrumentation and data management
  • Integrated Sun observations
  • Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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