Polarimetric littrow spectrograph - Instrument calibration and first measurements

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 437, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1159-1167

  Beck, C ^a   Schmidt, W ^a   Kentischer, T ^a   Elmore, D ^b  

^a KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: polarimeters; Sun: magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; POLARIMETERS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SUN; VECTORS;

INSTRUMENTATION: POLARIMETERS; POLARIMETRIC LITTROW SPECTROGRAPH; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; VACUUM TOWER TELESCOPES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 21844442346     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20052662     Document Type: Article

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