Data pipeline architecture and development for VELC onboard Space Solar Mission AdityaL1

Abstract

ADITYA L-1 is India’s first dedicated mission to study Sun and its atmosphere with Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), a major payload on ADITYA-L1. VELC has provision to make imaging and spectroscopic observations of the corona, simultaneously. Imaging with the Field of View (FOV) from 1.05Ro to 3Ro will be done in continuum at 500 nm. The spectroscopic observations of solar corona in three emission lines, namely 5303 A [Fe XIV], 7892 A [Fe XI], 10747 A [Fe XIII], and Spectro-polarimetry at 10747 A [Fe XIII] will be performed with FOV of 1.05–1.5Ro. In this work, the end-to-end data pipeline architecture and development of the VELC payload are presented. The VELC proposal submission form, satellite observation parameters, data products, level definitions, data pipeline and analysis software to process the big raw data sets obtained using VELC instruments onboard satellite to science-ready data are discussed