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Design and ground calibration of the helioseismic and magnetic imager (hmi) instrument on the solar dynamics observatory (sdo)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Akin, D. J. Couvidat, S. Allard, B. A. Duvall Jr., T. L. Title, A. M. Rabello-Soares, M. C. Elmore, D. F. Wachter, R. Bush, R. I. Liu, Y. Bogart, R. S. Schou, J. Tomczyk, S. Scherrer, P. H. Rairden, R. Miles, J. W. Shine, R. A. Tarbell, T. D. Wolfson, C. J. Hoeksema, J. T. Norton, A. A. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) investigation will study the solar interior using helioseismic techniques as well as the magnetic field near the solar surface. The HMI instrument is part of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) that was launched on 11 February 2010. The instrument is designed to measure the Doppler shift, intensity, and vector magnetic field at the solar photosphere using the 6173 Fe I absorption line. The instrument consists of a front-window filter, a telescope, a set of wave plates for polarimetry, an image-stabilization system, a blocking filter, a five-stage Lyot filter with one tunable element, two wide-field tunable Michelson interferometers, a pair of 4096(exo 2) pixel cameras with independent shutters, and associated electronics. Each camera takes a full-disk image roughly every 3.75 seconds giving an overall cadence of 45 seconds for the Doppler, intensity, and line-of-sight magnetic-field measurements and a slower cadence for the full vector magnetic field. This article describes the design of the HMI instrument and provides an overview of the pre-launch calibration efforts. Overviews of the investigation, details of the calibrations, data handling, and the science analysis are provided in accompanying articles. |
| File Size | 870529 |
| Page Count | 31 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20140007405 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t4fn65j2z |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Magnetic Field Helioseismology Observations Solar Dynamics Observatory Helioseismology Thermal Protection Calibrating Michelson Interferometers Measuring Instruments Ray Tracing Optics Magnetic Fields Doppler Effect Solar Observatories Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
