Kobayashi, Ken and Cirtain, Jonathan and Winebarger, Amy R. and Korreck, Kelly and Golub, Leon and Walsh, Robert W. and De Pontieu, Bart and DeForest, Craig and Title, Alan and Kuzin, Sergey and Savage, Sabrina and Beabout, Dyana and Beabout, Brent and Podgorski, William and Caldwell, David and McCracken, Kenneth and Ordway, Mark and Bergner, Henry and Gates, Richard and McKillop, Sean and Cheimets, Peter and Platt, Simon and Mitchell, Nick and Windt, David (2014) The High-resolution coronal imager (Hi-C). Solar Physics, 289 (11). pp. 4393-4412. ISSN 0038-0938
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The High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) was flown on a NASA sounding rocket on 11 July 2012. The goal of the Hi-C mission was to obtain high-resolution (≈0.3 – 0.4˝), high-cadence (≈5 seconds) images of a solar active region to investigate the dynamics of solar coronal structures at small spatial scales. The instrument consists of a normal-incidence telescope with the optics coated with multilayers to reflect a narrow wavelength range around 19.3 nm (including the Fe XII 19.5-nm spectral line) and a 4096×4096 camera with a plate scale of 0.1˝ pixel-1. The target of the Hi-C rocket flight was Active Region 11520. Hi-C obtained 37 full-frame images and 86 partial-frame images during the rocket flight. Analysis of the Hi-C data indicates the corona is structured on scales smaller than currently resolved by existing satellite missions.