Performance Testing of an Off-Limb Solar Adaptive Optics System

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• 作者：G. E. Taylor ; D. Schmidt ; J. Marino ; T. R. Rimmele ; R. T. J. McAteer
• 关键词：Adaptive optics ; Instrumentation and data management ; Solar prominences
• 刊名：Solar Physics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：290
• 期：6
• 页码：1871-1887
• 全文大小：1,867 KB
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• 作者单位：G. E. Taylor (1)
  D. Schmidt (2)
  J. Marino (2)
  T. R. Rimmele (2)
  R. T. J. McAteer (1)
  
  1. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
  2. National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Astronomy
  Extraterrestrial Physics and Space Sciences
  Astrophysics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-093X

文摘

Long-exposure spectro-polarimetry in the near-infrared is a preferred method to measure the magnetic field and other physical properties of solar prominences. In the past, it has been very difficult to observe prominences in this way with sufficient spatial resolution to fully understand their dynamical properties. Solar prominences contain highly transient structures, visible only at small spatial scales; hence they must be observed at sub-arcsecond resolution, with a high temporal cadence. An adaptive optics (AO) system capable of directly locking on to prominence structure away from the solar limb has the potential to allow for diffraction-limited spectro-polarimetry of solar prominences. We show the performance of the off-limb AO system and its expected performance at the desired science wavelength Ca?ii 8542??.