Inverse diffraction for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly in the Solar Dynamics Observatory

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The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly in the Solar Dynamics Observatory provides full Sun images every 12 seconds in each of 7 Extreme Ultraviolet passbands. However, for a significant amount of these images, saturation affects their most intense core, preventing scientists from a full exploitation of their physical meaning. In this paper we describe a mathematical and automatic procedure for the recovery of information in the primary saturation region based on a correlation/inversion analysis of the diffraction pattern associated to the telescope observations. Further, we suggest an interpolation-based method for determining the image background that allows the recovery of information also in the region of secondary saturation (blooming).

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