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27 changes: 21 additions & 6 deletions esis/science/papers/instrument/sections/introduction.py
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The solar \TR\ and corona, as viewed from space in its characteristic short wavelengths (\FUV, \EUV, and soft X-ray),
is a three-dimensional scene evolving in time: $I(x, y, \lambda, t)$.
Here, the helioprojective cartesian coordinates, $x$ and $y$ \citep{Thompson2006}, and the wavelength axis, $\lambda$,
comprise the three dimensions of the scene, while $t$ represents the temporal axis.
An ideal instrument would capture a spatial/spectral data cube, at a rapid temporal cadence, however, practical
limitations lead us to accept various compromises of the sampling rate along each of these four dimensions.
The light emitted by the solar \TR\ and corona varies significantly as a function
of position, wavelength, and time.
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When viewed from Earth, the spectral radiance from the Sun can be written as: $I(x, y, \lambda, t)$,
where $x$ and $y$ are the helioprojective Cartesian coordinates \citep{Thompson2006},
$\lambda$ is wavelength, and $t$ is time.
The ideal solar imaging spectrograph would capture $I(x, y, \lambda, t)$ with high resolution in $x$, $y$, $\lambda$,
and $t$ \textit{and} over a wide \FOV\, wavelength range, and time period.
Of course, the temporal dimension is privileged, so we often reduce the problem to capturing a 3D spatial/spectral

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privileged: This makes no sense to me.

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cube at a particular time $t_0$: $I(x, y, \lambda, t_0)$.
Since we use 2D detectors, this means that we must find a way to flatten the 3D cube into two dimensions

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...we use 2D detectors to capture an exposure at some time $t$...
Instead of "the 3D cube...without losing information", how about "the remaining three dimensions $x$, $y$, $\lambda$. This will probably entail some loss of information, which we must manage to meet our scientific goals."

without losing information.

One obvious way to accomplish this is to multiplex one of the three remaining dimensions in time.
Narrowband, tunable filters,
such as the GREGOR Fabry--P{\'e}rot Interferometer \citep{Puschmann12},
multiplex the wavelength dimension in time,
and can change the selected wavelength in \SI{100}{\milli\second} or less \citep{vanNoort2022},
but the technology does not exist to use this technique for wavelengths shorter than
$\sim$\SI{150}{\nano\meter}~\citep{2000WuelserFP}.


Approaching this ideal is the fast tunable filtergraph (\ie\ fast tunable Fabry--P\'erot etalons, \eg\ the GREGOR
Fabry--P{\'e}rot Interferometer, \citep{Puschmann12}), but the materials do not exist to extend this technology to
\EUV\ wavelengths shortward of $\sim$\SI{150}{\nano\meter}~\citep{2000WuelserFP}.
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