RHESSIMap

class sunpy.map.sources.RHESSIMap(data, header, **kwargs)

Bases: sunpy.map.GenericMap

RHESSI Image Map.

The RHESSI mission consists of a single spin-stabilized spacecraft in a low-altitude orbit inclined 38 degrees to the Earth’s equator. The only instrument on board is an Germaniun imaging spectrometer with the ability to obtain high fidelity solar images in X rays (down to 3 keV) to gamma rays (1 MeV).

RHESSI provides an angular resolution of 2 arcseconds at X-ray energies below ~40 keV, 7 arcseconds to 400 keV, and 36 arcseconds for gamma-ray lines and continuum above 1 MeV.

RHESSI was launched on 5 February 2002.

References

• RHESSI Homepage https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi3/index.html

• Mission Paper https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022428818870

Warning

This software is in beta and cannot read fits files containing more than one image.

Attributes Summary

detector

Returns the name of the detector

Methods Summary

is_datasource_for(data, header, **kwargs)

Determines if header corresponds to an RHESSI image

Attributes Documentation

detector

Returns the name of the detector

Methods Documentation

classmethod is_datasource_for(data, header, **kwargs)

Determines if header corresponds to an RHESSI image