Preliminary results on the solar rotation determined tracing SDO/AIA coronal bright points

In this paper we present preliminary results on the solar differential rotation measured tracing coronal bright points in SDO/AIA images. An automatic recognition method was applied to the series of images taken in the test period, 1-2 January 2011. Coronal bright points are suitable tracers for the determination of the solar differential rotation, because they are localized objects which are very well distributed over solar disc. Results presented in this paper show that the SDO/AIA data are very useful for that aim, due to the high spatial and temporal resolution of the images