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Monitoring fast solar chromospheric activity: the MeteoSpace project

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We present in this reference paper an instrumental project dedicated to the monitoring of solar activity during solar cycle 25. It concerns the survey of fast evolving chromospheric events implied in Space Weather, such as flares, coronal mass ejections, filament instabilities and Moreton waves. Coronal waves are produced by large flares around the solar maximum and propagate with chromospheric counterparts; they are rare, faint, difficult to observe, and for that reason, challenging. They require systematic observations with automatic, fast and multi-channel optical instruments. MeteoSpace is a high cadence telescope assembly specially designed for that purpose. The large amount of data will be freely available to the solar community. We describe in details the optical design, the qualification tests and capabilities of the telescopes, and show how waves can be detected. MeteoSpace will be installed at Calern observatory (Côte d’Azur, 1270 m) and will be in full operation in 2023.

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The authors declare that the datasets analysed during the current study are publicly available from the corresponding author upon request.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the anonymous referee for useful suggestions and comments. We are indebted to Y. Bresson, C. Renaud (OCA), J.-M. Rees, C. Blanchard (OP) and the technical teams of OP and OCA for their assistance. We are also grateful for financial support to Paris and Nice observatories, the Direction Générale de l’Armement, the IDEX Plas@Par, the Programme National Soleil Terre (PNST/INSU/CNRS), the DIM ACAV (Ile de France Region) and the IDEX UCA/JEDI.

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  1. LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Meudon, France

    Jean-Marie Malherbe, Gaële Barbary, Claude Collin & Daniel Crussaire

  2. Lagrange, Observatoire et Université de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France

    Thierry Corbard & Florence Guitton

  3. Calern Station, Observatoire et Université de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Caussols, France

    Frédéric Morand

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Malherbe, JM., Corbard, T., Barbary, G. et al. Monitoring fast solar chromospheric activity: the MeteoSpace project. Exp Astron 53, 1127–1148 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-022-09848-7

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