Bibcode
Calcines, A.; López, R. L.; Collados, M.; Vega Reyes, N.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9147, id. 91473I 13 pp. (2014).
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2014
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9
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Description
Integral Field Spectroscopy is an innovative technique that is being
implemented in the state-of-the-art instruments of the largest
night-time telescopes, however, it is still a novelty for solar
instrumentation. A new concept of image slicer, called MuSICa
(Multi-Slit Image slicer based on collimator-Camera), has been designed
for the integral field spectrograph of the 4-m European Solar Telescope.
This communication presents an image slicer prototype of MuSICa for
GRIS, the spectrograph of the 1.5-m GREGOR solar telescope located at
the Observatory of El Teide. MuSICa at GRIS reorganizes a 2-D field of
view of 24.5 arcsec into a slit of 0.367 arcsec width by 66.76 arcsec
length distributed horizontally. It will operate together with the
TIP-II polarimeter to offer high resolution integral field
spectropolarimetry. It will also have a bidimensional field of view
scanning system to cover a field of view up to 1 by 1 arcmin.