Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsh51a1261c&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SH51A-1261
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
[7594] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
The NST (New Solar Telescope) is in its commissioning phase at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). It will be the most capable, largest aperture solar telescope in the US until the 4 m ATST (Advanced Technology Solar Telescope) comes on-line in the middle of the next decade. The NST will be outfitted with state-of-the-art post-focus instrumentations at the Nasmyth focus on the dome floor and in the Coude Lab beneath the telescope. At the Nasmyth focus, several filter-based systems already in routine operation offer high spatial resolution photometry in TiO 704 nm, Hα 656 nm, G-band 430 nm and near infrared 1.56 μm & 2.2 μm, with the assistance of local correlation tracking and image reconstruction. As well, a Cryogenic InfraRed Spectrograph (CIRS) is being developed to supply high signal-to-noise-ratio spectrometry and polarimetry spanning 1.0 to 5.0 μm. The Coudé-lab instrumentations will include Adaptive Optics system (AO), InfraRed Imaging Magnetograph (IRIM), Visible Imaging Magnetograph (VIM), Real-time Image Reconstruction System (RIRS), and Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) -- most of these instruments operated on the old 0.6 m BBSO telescope. AO is being upgraded to a 308 sub-aperture (349-actuator Deformable Mirror) AO system that will enable diffraction limited observations over the NST's principal operating wavelengths from 0.4 through 1.7 μm. IRIM and VIM are Fabry-Pérot based narrow-band tunable filter, which provide high resolution two-dimensional spectroscopic and polarimetric imaging in the near infrared and visible respectively. Using a 32-node parallel computing system, RIRS is capable of performing real-time image reconstruction with one image every minute. FISS is a collaboration between BBSO and Seoul National University to focus on chromosphere dynamics. Key tasks including optical design, hardware/software integration and subsequent setup/testing on the NST, will be presented here. Some preliminary observation results in the near infrared will be shown.
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