SOLARNET Conference: The Many Scales of the Magnetic Sun

Instruments for High-resolution Solar Observations

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20m

Haus H, Telegrafenberg

Poster presentation 1) Latest facilities to observe fundamental processes - space missions, telescopes, and instrumentation Latest facilities to observe fundamental processes - space missions, telescopes, and instrumentation

Speaker

Prof. Carsten Denker (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

Description

The improved High-resolution Fast Imager (HiFI+) completed commissioning and science verification at the 1.5-meter GREGOR solar telescope in March 2022. HiFI+ delivers diffration-limited observations in six wavelength bands, i.e., Ca II H, G-band, blue continuum, broad- and narrow-band Hα, and TiO, at a cadence of 6 s and 12 s. We report on the 2022 observing season and demonstrate the science capabilities of HiFI+. The Fast Multi-Line Universal Spectrograph (FaMuLUS) camera system was commissioned at the echelle spectrograph of the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) in 2022. The instrument provides a spectral resolution above R = 500000 and a field-o-view of 120″ × 220″, which can be scanned in about one minute with a plate scale of 0.36″ per pixel. We present the modes of FaMuLUS for on-disk and off-limb observations and initial results of its performance. Science verification of FaMuLUS is scheduled for 2023 so that it will be available for observations in 2024.