Narrow-band Imaging in the CN Band at 388.33 nm

Details Narrow-band Imaging in the CN Band at 388.33 nm Narrow-band Imaging in the CN Band at 388.33 nm

2006-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611407v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20066286

We promote the use of narrow-band (0.05 -- 0.20 nm FWHM) imaging in the molecularvCN band head at 388.33 nm as an effective method for monitoring small-scale magnetic field elements because it renders them with exceptionally high contrast. We create synthetic narrow-band CN filtergrams from spectra computed from a three-dimensional snapshot of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the solar convection to illustrate the expected high contrast and explain its nature. In addition, we performed observations with the horizontal slit spectrograph at the Dunn Solar Tower at 388.3 nm to experimentally confirm the high bright-point contrast, and to characterize and optimize the transmission profile of a narrow-band (0.04 FWHM) Lyot filter, which was built by Lyot and tailored to the CN band at Sacramento Peak in the early 70's. The presented theoretical computations predict that bright-point contrast in narrow-band (0.04 FWHM) CN filtergrams is more than 3 times higher than in CN filtergrams taken with 1 nm FWHM wide filters, and in typical G-band filtergrams.

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