Astronomical Polarimetry

The combination of the German Vacuum Tower Telescope and the prototype of ZIMPOL I (Zuerich Imaging Stokes Polarimeter I), a novel, very sensitive imaging polarimeter, has resulted in the first spectra of solar intra-network (IN) fields in circular …

The combination of a polarimeter with real-time frame selection and differential speckle imaging results in diffraction-limited magnetograms that provide new insight into the morphology of solar small-scale magnetic fields. The method to record …