Stray-Light Effect on Magnetograph Observations

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Dec 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998soph..183..229c&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, v. 183, Issue 2, p. 229-244 (1998).

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To examine the stray-light effect in magnetograph observations, we have determined the point spread functions of the vector magnetograph mounted on the Japanese Solar Flare Telescope based on two indirect methods, one analyzing the solar limb intensity profile, and the other using the Fourier power spectra of photospheric intensity distributions. Point spread functions consist of two parts: a blurring part which describes seeing and small-spread-angle stray light, and a scattering part which describes large-spread-angle stray light. The FWHM spatial resolution is typically 3.0'', and the amount of scattered light is about 15% on clear days. We find that the blurring part is well described by a Moffat function whose Fourier transform is given by an exponential function. Our results indicate that polarization measurements of low-intensity magnetic elements like sunspots may be significantly underestimated due to the large-spread-angle stray light, and polarization measurements of magnetic elements which are smaller than 5-7'' appear to be disturbed by small-spread-angle stray light.

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