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Front. Astron. Space Sci.

Sec. Stellar and Solar Physics

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspas.2025.1571024

CORHI-X: Investigating Heliospheric Events Through Multiple Observation Angles and Heliocentric Distances

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  • 2 GeoSphere Austria, Vienna, Austria
  • 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    The CORonagraph and Heliospheric Imager data eXplorer (CORHI-X) is an open-source tool designed for the Heliophysics community to foster multi-spacecraft studies. CORHI-X enables users to easily visualize multi-spacecraft constellations, their overlapping fields of view (FoV), and the occurrence of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over defined time intervals beginning in 2019. CORHI-X is accessible via a Python Streamlit interface, where users can select coronagraphs (e.g., STEREO-A/COR1-COR2, SOHO/C2-C3, SOLAR ORBITER/Metis) and heliospheric imagers (e.g., STEREO-A/HI-A, PARKER SOLAR PROBE/WISPR, SOLAR ORBITER/SoloHI).The tool not only provides spacecraft positions and FoVs of selected instruments, but also ensures that FoVs are plotted only when the corresponding spacecraft data are available. Indeed, the online archives of each instrument are checked monthly to retrieve observation dates, ensuring that CORHI-X automatically incorporates the latest data. For an effective search for eruptive events potentially appearing within the instrument's FoVs, CORHI-X is linked to two different CME catalogs (DONKI and HI-Geo, respectively). The user can visualize specific CMEs and propagate them over distance to identify which events may have entered the FoV of one or more instruments.Users can also manually enter their own CME input parameters (propagation direction, speed, time, width, and longitude) via the interface. For propagation, a simple drag-based model is incorporated in the visualization of the spacecraft constellation.

    Keywords: Sun, Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), heliosphere, drag-based model, Multi-viewpoint Observations, Spacecraft constellation, Heliospheric imagers, Coronagraphs

    Received: 04 Feb 2025; Accepted: 24 Mar 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Cappello, Temmer, Weiler, Liberatore, Moestl and Amerstorfer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Greta M. Cappello, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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