D. B. Seaton, D. Berghmans, B. Nicula, J. -P. Halain, A. De Groof, T. Thibert, D. S. Bloomfield, C. L. Raftery, P. T. Gallagher, F. Auchère, J. -M. Defise, E. D'Huys, J. -H. Lecat, E. Mazy, P. Rochus, L. Rossi, U. Schühle, V. Slemzin, M. S. Yalim, J. Zender
The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) is an EUV solar telescope on board ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) mission launched on 2 November 2009. SWAP has a spectral bandpass centered on 17.4 nm and provides images of the low solar corona over a 54x54 arcmin field-of-view with 3.2 arcsec pixels and an imaging cadence of about two minutes. SWAP is designed to monitor all space-weather-relevant events and features in the low solar corona. Given the limited resources of the PROBA2 microsatellite, the SWAP telescope is designed with various innovative technologies, including an off-axis optical design and a CMOS-APS detector. This article provides reference documentation for users of the SWAP image data.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4631
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