Stereoscopic Spectroscopy for Efficient Spectral Imaging and Magnetography

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Nov 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004apj...616..600d&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 616, Issue 1, pp. 600-616.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation: Polarimeters, Instrumentation: Spectrographs, Methods: Data Analysis, Sun: Magnetic Fields, Techniques: Polarimetric, Techniques: Spectroscopic

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Stereoscopic imaging spectroscopy is a novel technique that uses multiple spectral orders and stereoscopic reconstruction to eliminate the need for a slit in a dispersive spectrograph, potentially increasing photon efficiency by 1-2 orders of magnitude compared with conventional spectral imaging. We present advances in stereoscopic reconstruction, allowing detection of the first moments of a spectral line simultaneously over a complete two-dimensional image plane. Using the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter on the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Solar Observatory, we have created the first solar magnetograms made with this technique. With a simple prototype optical layout, we were able to generate Stokes V magnetograms using the Fe I photospheric absorption line at 617.34 nm (6173.4 Å). We calculate that an optimized instrument using this technique could acquire solar magnetograms with ~10 G rms shot noise in 150 ms using this spectral line at the host telescope's diffraction limit. Stereoscopic techniques are useful not only for the solar photosphere but also for photon-starved imaging spectroscopy in general.

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