RHESSISummaryTimeSeries

class sunpy.timeseries.sources.RHESSISummaryTimeSeries(data, meta=None, units=None, **kwargs)

Bases: sunpy.timeseries.timeseriesbase.GenericTimeSeries

RHESSI X-ray Summary lightcurve TimeSeries.

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 a set of 9 Germanium spectrometers with the ability to obtain high fidelity solar spectra from X rays (down to 3 keV) to gamma rays (1 MeV). Each spectrometer is coupled to a set of grids with different pitches which enable fourier-style imaging as the spacecraft spins.

RHESSI provides summary lightcurves in the following passbands:

• 3 - 6 keV

• 6 - 12 keV

• 12 - 25 keV

• 25 - 50 keV

• 50 - 100 keV

• 100 - 300 keV

• 300 - 800 keV

• 800 - 7000 keV

• 7000 - 20000 keV

RHESSI was launched on 5th February 2002.

Examples

>>> import sunpy.data.sample  
>>> import sunpy.timeseries
>>> rhessi = sunpy.timeseries.TimeSeries(sunpy.data.sample.RHESSI_TIMESERIES)  
>>> rhessi.peek()  

References

• RHESSI Homepage.

• Mission Paper.

Methods Summary

is_datasource_for(**kwargs)	Determines if the file corresponds to a RHESSI X-ray Summary TimeSeries.
peek([title])	Plots RHESSI Count Rate light curve.

Methods Documentation

classmethod is_datasource_for(**kwargs)

Determines if the file corresponds to a RHESSI X-ray Summary TimeSeries.

peek(title='RHESSI Observing Summary Count Rate', **kwargs)

Plots RHESSI Count Rate light curve. An example is shown below:

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

Parameters

• title (str) – The title of the plot.

• **kwargs (dict) – Additional plot keyword arguments that are handed to plot functions.