A full-Stokes polarimeter for the GREGOR Fabry-Perot interferometer

Bibcode
2009IAUS..259..665B
DOI
10.1017/S1743921309031500
Balthasar, Horst; Bello González, N.; Collados, M.; Denker, C.; Hofmann, A.; Kneer, F.; Puschmann, K. G.
Bibliographical reference

Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to Stars and Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 259, p. 665-666

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4
2009
Number of authors
7
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
11
Refereed citations
8
Description
One of the first post-focus instruments of the new solar telescope GREGOR will be a Fabry-Perot spectrometer, which is an upgrade of the Göttingen Fabry-Perot interferometer at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) on Tenerife. This spectrometer is equipped with a full-Stokes polarimeter. The modulation is performed with two ferroelectric liquid crystals, one acting nominally as quarter-wave plate, and the other as half-wave plate. A modified Savart plate serves as polarimetric beam splitter. With the present liquid crystals, the optimum wavelength range of this polarimeter is between 580 and 660 nm. The spectro-polarimeter will benefit from the capabilities of the new telescope GREGOR which will provide a spatial resolution of about 0″.1 (75 km on the solar surface). Thus we will be able to investigate small magnetic features, and we will study their development with high cadence.
Type
Non-refereed
Instrumentation
Polarimeters
Instrumentation
Magnetic fields

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