Fact sheet

Table 1. EUV Imaging Spectrometer Overview

Telescope
Off-axis parabola 15 cm diameter;
half area:170-210Å, the other half:250-290Å
Focal length 1939mm
Off-axis distance 70 mm
Plate scale at slit 9.37 microns/arcsec
Multi-layer coating Mo/Si pairs
Peak efficiency at 19.5nm for one half area and 27.0nm for the other
Slits & Slots 1", 2", 40", and 266" width at primary focus
Fine mirror scan range ± 295" solar image motion in east-west direction for raster scan
Large FOV translation ± 890" shift of FOV center in east-west direction
Spectrometer
Grating Toroid surface, holographic and laminar ruling
4200 grooves/mm
Wavelength range Maximum coverage 170-210Å, 250-290Å
Useful coverage 180-204Å, 250-290Å
Dispersion 1.65 Å/mm or 0.0223 Å/CCD pixel
Pixel equivalent width 34.3km/s @195Å, 26.1km/s @256Å, and 23.6km/s @284Å
Plate scale at CCD 1.0" / CCD pixel
CCD camera CCD Device Marconi 42-20, MPP
Format (Spatial × Spectral) 1024 × 2048 pixel for each CCD
Pixel size 13.5 micron
Readout electronics Window size 512 × 2048 max for each CCD from 1024 × 2048 area
ICU in spacecraft bus Number of spectral windows 25 maximum

* FOV of 1024" is guaranteed in north-south direction on the CCD. Height of 512" out of 1024" can be read in a single exposure.

Table 2. EIS Instrumental Performance

Instrument Performance
Effective Area 0.23 cm2 peak @ 195Å for 170-210Å band
0.06 cm2 peak @ 270Å for 250-290Å band
Expected line intensity
from 1" × 1" area
Quiet Sun 8 photons/s for Fe XII 195Å
2 ph/s for He II 256Å
Active Region 2 × 102 ph/s for Fe XII 195Å
1 × 101 ph/s for He II 256Å
1 × 102 ph/s for Fe XV 284Å
M2-class Flare 4 × 104 ph/s for Fe XXIV 192Å
3 × 103 ph/s for Fe XXIV 255Å
4 × 103 ph/s for He II 256Å
1 × 103 ph/s for Fe XV 284Å
Accuracy of measurement Doppler velocity v = 2 km/s for 2 × 102 photons (Fe XV 284Å)
v = 3 km/s for 2 × 103photons (Fe XXIV 255Å)
Line width dw = 4 km/s for 2 × 102 photons (Fe XV 284Å)
dw = 9 km/s for 2 × 103 photons (Fe XXIV 255Å)
Data compression in MDP Bit compression: 16-to-12 bit or 14-to-12 bit compression
Image compression: DPCM (loss less) or 12bit-JPEG
Data rate 1/8 of total telemetry (40kbps) after compression
Control of EIS observation Observing sequence in EIS ICU

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