SOLARNET Conference: The Many Scales of the Magnetic Sun

The EST is a project aimed at studying the dynamic magnetic connectivity of the solar atmosphere, from the deep photosphere to the upper chromosphere. A polarimetrically compensated telescope with integrated multi-conjugated adaptive optics will feed a suite of spectropolarimetric instruments that allows to simultaneously observe the different layers of the solar atmosphere. In this talk, I will present the concept for the light distribution and the instrument suite which intends to significantly improve our capabilities to address critical science cases in our field such as: How does the magnetic field emerge into the photosphere? How does it evolve, interact, and rise in a convectively stable stratification? What is the interplay between the magnetic field, reconnection processes, radiation, waves, and the transport of energy into higher layers?