Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)

Most of the EIT-related activities that will be performed at the ROB are already financed independently from this project (labeled with '*'). To extend this effort to the LASCO coronagraph data and to confront in detail the simulations with the observations, one extra postdoc (3 years) is needed. The complete ROB program will then consist of:

• 1st year: automated scanning of EIT archive (*) and development of EIT event catalogues (*); scanning of LASCO archive and development of LASCO event catalogues; study of LASCO time-height profiles; development of a CME case-studie catalogue of multi-instrument observations (subtasks 2.2, 2.3, 5.2)
• 2nd year: derivation of CME prototype scenarios, statistical analysis of EIT event catalogues (*) and LASCO event catalogues resulting in prototype scenarios; development of instrument dependent visualization tools (subtask 2.3, 5.1)
• 3rd year: observational tests (both EIT and LASCO) of simulation results (subtasks 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3)