Spectro-Polarimetry in the Era of Large Solar Telescope

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2010-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/1005.4620v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

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This paper discusses some of the challenges of spectro-polarimetric observations with a large aperture solar telescope such as the ATST or the EST. The observer needs to reach a compromise among spatial and spectral resolution, time cadence, and signal-to-noise ratio, as only three of those four parameters can be pushed to the limit. Tunable filters and grating spectrographs provide a natural compromise as the former are more suitable for high-spatial resolution observations while the latter are a better choice when one needs to work with many wavelengths at full spectral resolution. Given the requirements for the new science targeted by these facilities, it is important that 1)tunable filters have some multi-wavelength capability; and 2)grating spectrographs have some 2D field of view.

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