7594 Instruments and techniques

Are You Being Served? - Solar Data Management at the National Solar Observatory

Solar physics is a data driven field, where no progress can be made without multi-wavelength and multi-cadence information about the sun's behavior. The National Solar Observatory (NSO) has provided data to the research community for over 30 years …

First-Light Instrumentation for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

The 4m Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is the next generation ground based solar telescope. In this paper we provide an overview of the ATST post-focus instrumentation. The majority of ATST instrumentation is located in an instrument Coude …

Reduction of SOLIS/Vector Spectromagnetograph He I 1083 nm Observations

The SOLIS/Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) now continues the three- decade record of full-disk He I 1083 nm spectroheliograms from NSO/Kitt Peak (see poster by Henney et al.). Although the sensitivity of the VSM interim cameras at 1083 nm is far …

SOLIS-VSM Synoptic Products

Since August 2003, the Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) instrument has recorded full-disk photospheric and chromospheric magnetograms along with He I 1083 nm spectroheliograms daily as part of the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun …

First Results from SOLIS

SOLIS (Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun) is a project to replace antiquated synoptic observing equipment at the National Solar Observatory. SOLIS includes a suite of three instruments on an equatorial mount originally installed at …

The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope -- Science Goals and Instrument Description.

High-resolution studies of the Sun's magnetic fields are needed for a better understanding of solar magnetic fields and the fundamental processes responsible for solar variability. The generation of magnetic fields through dynamo processes, the …