High precision polarimetry with the advanced technology solar telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5901, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Socas Navarro, Hector ^a   Elmore, David F ^a   Keller, Christoph U ^b   Seagraves, Paul H ^a   Streander, Kim V ^a   Card, Gregory L ^a   Warner, Mark ^c   Kuhn, Jeffrey R ^d   Mickey, Donald L ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; Solar; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLAR TELESCOPE; CALIBRATION OPTICS; SOLAR; ZEEMAN PATTERN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIRRORS; OPTICS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 29844446479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.616000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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