Bibcode
Puschmann, K. G.; Denker, Carsten; Balthasar, Horst; Louis, Rohan E.; Popow, Emil; Woche, Manfred; Beck, C.; Seelemann, Thomas; Volkmer, Reiner
Referencia bibliográfica
Optical Engineering, Volume 52, id. 081606 (2013).
Fecha de publicación:
8
2013
Revista
Número de citas
20
Número de citas referidas
18
Descripción
The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (GFPI) is one of three
first-light instruments of the German 1.5-m GREGOR solar telescope at
the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. The GFPI allows fast
narrow-band imaging and postfactum image restoration. The retrieved
physical parameters will be a fundamental building block for
understanding the dynamic sun and its magnetic field at spatial scales
down to ˜50 km on the solar surface. The GFPI is a tunable
dual-etalon system in a collimated mounting. It is designed for
spectrometric and spectropolarimetric observations between 530-860 nm
and 580-660 nm, respectively, and possesses a theoretical spectral
resolution of R≈250,000. Large-format, high-cadence charged coupled
device detectors with sophisticated computer hard- and software enable
the scanning of spectral lines in time-spans equivalent to the evolution
time of solar features. The field-of-view (FOV) of
50″×38″ covers a significant fraction of the typical
area of active regions in the spectroscopic mode. In case of
Stokes-vector spectropolarimetry, the FOV reduces to
25″×38″. The main characteristics of the GFPI
including advanced and automated calibration and observing procedures
are presented. Improvements in the optical design of the instrument are
discussed and first observational results are shown. Finally, the first
concrete ideas for the integration of a second FPI, the blue imaging
solar spectrometer, are laid out, which will explore the blue spectral
region below 530 nm.