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 THEMIS is located at the [[https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios-de-canarias/teide-observatory | Teide Observatory]] of [[https://www.iac.es/en | IAC]], with a base office in La Laguna, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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+[[science:resources | Downloadable posters highlighting recent high-resolution observations of solar active regions by THEMIS]]\\
+[[science:results:ESTFrance2025 | June : Presentation of THEMIS results at the EST France 2025 Workshop in Paris (FR).]] \\
+[[science:results:SF2A2025 | July : Presentation of THEMIS results at the "Journées de la SF2A" in Toulouse (FR).]] \\
 Click for information on: \  \  **[[admin:location| How to reach THEMIS locations]]** \ ; \ **[[admin:contacts| How to contact the THEMIS team]]**
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 === Observing with THEMIS  ===
 **[[observation| Information for research scientists wishing to observe with THEMIS]]** \\
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 [[observation:weather | Weather at THEMIS location and weather forecast]] \\
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-== THEMIS image of the month: May 2025 ==
+== THEMIS image of the month: June 2025 ==
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-**May was Mercury Month a theMis!**\\
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- This past month of May took place the usual annual observation campaign of Mercury, led by researchers from the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF/IAPS in Rome) in collaboration with scientist from the French Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS/CNRS-UVSQ-SU-CNES in Paris). \\
+In June, during an observation campaign lead by researchers from the Paris Observatory (France) and the University of Wroclaw (Poland), THEMIS observed solar filaments. Solar filaments are large magnetised structure of the solar corona confining cold chromospheric-like plasma. Thanks to its specific magnetic structure, solar filaments plasma, of a temperature of about 10 000°K, "hangs" thermally isolated from the million °K solar corona. As this dense and cool plasma absorbs the light emitted from the lower solar layer, the filament appears dark relatively to the background.\\
-In a sequence of scans of the exosphere of Mercury obtained some years ago, THEMIS could follow the hourly evolution of the reconstructed distribution of the Sodium emission. The figure displays the intensity emission (in kiloRayleigh) after preliminary reduction, including bias and sky background subtraction, as well as spectral and ﬂux calibrations. Solid white line highlights the disk of the planet, the cross indicating the center of the disk. Mercury disk is 6.0'' wide. The Sun is located on the left. \\
+The THEMIS observation presented here results from two reconstructed images obtained from two adjacent scans over the solar filament with the THEMIS spectrograph slit. The two scans, which have a 80" range with a 0.5" spatial step, are then stitched together to obtain a larger field of view of about 110"  x 90". Only the reconstructed image in the core of Hα line is displayed here, but THEMIS data allow to sample the full range of the Hα line with a spectral resolution of 4mÅ.\\
+THEMIS high-resolution observations are very complementary to the observations of the [[https://www.oca.eu/fr/lag-physol-projects?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=295&Itemid=908 | Meteospace/3SOLEIL]] solar surveillance service of OCA/CNRS-INSU, which provide full-Sun high cadence (every 10s) Hα observations, presented on the right panel. \\
-The images show the two peaks of higher intensity at high hermian latitude in the direction of the Sun. These peaks of sodium emission are roughly co-spatial with the positions of the magnetic footprints.  Their evolution is due to the link of such emission with the Mercury magnetosphere and the interaction with the varying solar wind particles penetrating the magnetosphere and flowing to the surface.
+Thanks to its high-resolution, as illustrated in the left panel, THEMIS permits to analyse the filamentary structure of the solar filament and understand its magnetic field thanks to THEMIS polarised measurements. In particular, the magnetic properties of the "barbs" of the filament, the features which extend away from the "spine" (the filament axis), remains ill understood and an active topic of research.
-Adapted from [[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2013.03.002]| Mangano et al. 2013]]. \\
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