Daniel B. Seaton is an American solar physicist based at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. He is particularly known for his work on producing and interpreting images of the solar corona, using both visible light and extreme ultraviolet.
Seaton helped develop, and ultimately led, operations and data analysis for the groundbreaking PROBA-2/SWAP wide-field extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) coronal imaging instrument,[1][2] controlled from the Royal Observatory of Belgium, from 2008 to 2015. More recent work includes using the GOES-17/SUVI instrument to reveal the extended EUV corona to distances above 3 solar radii.[3]
In addition to carrying out current work on solar flares and the structure of the Sun's "middle corona", Seaton leads the Science Operations Center development for the PUNCH mission (a NASA Small Explorer) and for the CubIXSS cubesat mission, is Project Scientist of the SunCET solar imaging cubesat, and leads the Imaging & Analysis section of the Department of Solar and Heliospheric Physics at SwRI.
- ^ Seaton, D.B., et al. 2013: "The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope Part I: Instrument Overview and Pre-Flight Testing", Solar Physics, 286, 43 (doi:10.1007/s11207-012-0114-6)
- ^ Seaton, D.B., de Groof, A., Shearer, P., Berghmans, D., and Nicula, B. 2013: "SWAP observations of the Long-Term, Large-Scale Evolution of the EUV Solar Corona", Astrophysical Journal 777, 72 (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/777/1/72)
- ^ Seaton, D.B., et al. 2021: "The Sun's dynamic extended corona observed in extreme ultraviolet", Nature Astronomy 5, 1029 (doi:10.1038/s41550-021-01427-8)