Bibcode
Puschmann, Klaus G.; Balthasar, Horst; Beck, C.; Louis, Rohan E.; Popow, Emil; Seelemann, Thomas; Volkmer, Reiner; Woche, Manfred; Denker, Carsten
Referencia bibliográfica
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, id. 844679-844679-18 (2012).
Fecha de publicación:
9
2012
Número de citas
15
Número de citas referidas
14
Descripción
The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (GFPI) is one of three
first-light instruments of the German 1.5-meter GREGOR solar telescope
at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. The GFPI allows fast
narrow-band imaging and post-factum 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 spectropolarimetric
observations over the wavelength range from 530–860 nm with a
theoretical spectral resolution of R ≍ 250,000. The GFPI is
equipped with a full-Stokes polarimeter. Large-format, high-cadence CCD
detectors with powerful 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 of 50''×38'' covers a
significant fraction of the typical area of active regions. We present
the main characteristics of the GFPI including advanced and automated
calibration and observing procedures. We discuss improvements in the
optical design of the instrument and show first observational results.
Finally, we lay out first concrete ideas for the integration of a second
FPI, the Blue Imaging Solar Spectrometer, which will explore the blue
spectral region below 530 nm.