The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope – Observatory Overview

Autor: Robert P. Hubbard, Aimee Szabo, Christopher Richards, Le Ellen Phelps, Heather K. Marshall, Kerry Gonzales, John R. Hubbard, Michael Knölker, Karl Newman, Mark Rast, Predrag Sekulic, Mary Liang, Colleen Donnelly, Christopher Gedrites, Brett Smith, Richard T. Summers, Christopher Foster, David Elmore, Sarah A. Jaeggli, Luke C. Johnson, Stephen B. Wampler, Brialyn Onodera, Thomas R. Rimmele, Isaac McQuillen, Joseph P. McMullin, Jeff Kuhn, Robert Rosner, David M. Harrington, Jean Benoit de Vanssay, Alisdair Davey, Stephen Guzzo, Bruce A. Cowan, Andrew Ferayorni, Stephanie S. Guzman, Steve Hegwer, Stacey R. Sueoka, Lukas M. Rimmele, Wolfgang Schmidt, Alfred G. de Wijn, Charles White, Friedrich Wöger, Erik M. Johansson, Jacobus M. Oschmann, Stephan R. Shimko, Tetsu Anan, Bryan K. Cummings, Oskar von der Lühe, Chriselle Ann Galapon, David C. Berst, Chen Liang, Mihalis Mathioudakis, Andrew Beard, Timothy R. Williams, Bret D. Goodrich, Simon C. Craig, Brett E. Simison, Myles M. Puentes, Stephen L. Keil, Haosheng Lin, Eric Cross, Thomas A. Schad, Erik Starman, Brian S. Gregory, Philip R. Goode, Christopher Mayer, Christian Beck, Donald L. Mickey, Roberto Casini, Arthur D. Eigenbrot, André Fehlmann, Louis Szabo, Alexandra Tritschler, Paul F. Jeffers, Mark Warner
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Rimmele, T R, Warner, M, Keil, S L, Goode, P R, Knölker, M, Kuhn, J R, Rosner, R R, McMullin, J P, Casini, R, Lin, H, Wöger, F, von der Lühe, O, Tritschler, A, Davey, A, de Wijn, A, Elmore, D F, Fehlmann, A, Harrington, D M, Jaeggli, S A, Rast, M P, Schad, T A, Schmidt, W, Mathioudakis, M, Mickey, D L, Anan, T, Beck, C, Marshall, H K, Jeffers, P F, Oschmann, J M, Beard, A, Berst, D C, Cowan, B A, Craig, S C, Cross, E, Cummings, B K, Donnelly, C, de Vanssay, J B, Eigenbrot, A D, Ferayorni, A, Foster, C, Galapon, C A, Gedrites, C, Gonzales, K, Goodrich, B D, Gregory, B S, Guzman, S S, Guzzo, S, Hegwer, S, Hubbard, R P, Hubbard, J R, Johansson, E M, Johnson, L C, Liang, C, Liang, M, McQuillen, I, Mayer, C, Newman, K, Onodera, B, Phelps, L E, Puentes, M M, Richards, C, Rimmele, L M, Sekulic, P, Shimko, S R, Simison, B E, Smith, B, Starman, E, Sueoka, S R, Summers, R T, Szabo, A, Szabo, L, Wampler, S B, Williams, T R & White, C 2020, ' The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope – Observatory Overview ', Solar Physics, vol. 295, no. 12, 172 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-020-01736-7
Popis: We present an overview of the National Science Foundation’sDaniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope(DKIST), its instruments, and support facilities. The 4 m aperture DKIST provides the highest-resolution observations of the Sun ever achieved. The large aperture of DKIST combined with state-of-the-art instrumentation provide the sensitivity to measure the vector magnetic field in the chromosphere and in the faint corona, i.e. for the first time with DKIST we will be able to measure and study the most important free-energy source in the outer solar atmosphere – the coronal magnetic field. Over its operational lifetime DKIST will advance our knowledge of fundamental astronomical processes, including highly dynamic solar eruptions that are at the source of space-weather events that impact our technological society. Design and construction of DKIST took over two decades. DKIST implements a fast (f/2), off-axis Gregorian optical design. The maximum available field-of-view is 5 arcmin. A complex thermal-control system was implemented in order to remove at prime focus the majority of the 13 kW collected by the primary mirror and to keep optical surfaces and structures at ambient temperature, thus avoiding self-induced local seeing. A high-order adaptive-optics system with 1600 actuators corrects atmospheric seeing enabling diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy. Five instruments, four of which are polarimeters, provide powerful diagnostic capability over a broad wavelength range covering the visible, near-infrared, and mid-infrared spectrum. New polarization-calibration strategies were developed to achieve the stringent polarization accuracy requirement of 5×10−4. Instruments can be combined and operated simultaneously in order to obtain a maximum of observational information. Observing time on DKIST is allocated through an open, merit-based proposal process. DKIST will be operated primarily in “service mode” and is expected to on average produce 3 PB of raw data per year. A newly developed data center located at the NSO Headquarters in Boulder will initially serve fully calibrated data to the international users community. Higher-level data products, such as physical parameters obtained from inversions of spectro-polarimetric data will be added as resources allow.
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