The Hinode Spectro-Polarimeter

By B. Lites, D. Akin, G. Card, T. Cruz, D. Duncan, C. Edwards, D. Elmore, C. Hoffmann, Y. Katsukawa, N. Katz and 9 more. 2013

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The joint Japan/US/UK Hinode mission includes the first large-aperture visible-light solar telescope flown in space. One component of the Focal Plane Package of that telescope is a precision spectro-polarimeter designed to measure full Stokes spectra with the intent of using those spectra to infer the magnetic-field vector at high precision in the solar photosphere. This article describes the characteristics of the flight hardware of the HinodeSpectro-Polarimeter, and summarizes its in-flight performance.

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• The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere (2014, unknown): “2008) Hinode/SOT-SP Hinode SOT Spectro-Polarimeter (Tsuneta et al. 2008b; Lites et al. 2013) KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory (http://www.”
• The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Vector Magnetic Field Pipeline: Overview and Performance (2014, methodology): “…rudimentary evaluation of the evolution of AR #11158 features are discussed in light of the limitations of the data, and a brief qualitative comparison is presented with simultaneous observations from the Hinode/SpectroPolarimeter (Kosugi et al., 2007; Tsuneta et al., 2008; Lites et al., 2013).”