Spectropolarimetry of Sunspots at 0.16 ARCSEC resolution

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We present first observations of sunspots with the imaging spectropolarimeter CRISP, recently installed at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma. This spectropolarimeter is based on a high-fidelity dual Fabry-Perot filter system.
Two liquid crystals and a polarizing beam splitter are used to reduce seeing induced I,Q,U,V crosstalk by simultaneously recording images with two 1kx1k back-illuminated Sarnoff CCD's. A third CCD simultaneously records broadband images through the pre-filter of the FPI filter system, allowing image reconstruction and co-alignment of images of different polarization states and at different wavelengths in Zeeman sensitive spectral lines.
The first data, recorded in April 2008, demonstrate the capability of this system to record high cadence, high S/N polarimetric data with a spatial resolution at or close to the diffraction limit of the SST at 630 nm, 0.16 arcsec. We discuss the analysis of first spectropolarimetric data for sunspots, based on Milne-Eddington inversion techniques.

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