Initial Results from the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS)

Zusatztext

<p>Describes the instruments and initial results of the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) at the Big Bear Solar Observatory.</p><p>This collection of papers describes the instrument and initial results obtained from the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS), one of the post-focus instruments of the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory. The FISS primarily aims at investigating structures and dynamics of chromospheric features. This instrument is a dual-band Echelle spectrograph optimized for the simultaneous recording of the H I 656.3 nm band and the Ca II 854.2 nm band. The imaging is done with the fast raster scan realized by the linear motion of a two-mirror scanner, and its quality is determined by the performance of the adaptive optics of the telescope.</p><p>These papers illustrate the capability of the early FISS observations in the study of chromospheric features. Since the imaging quality has been improved a lot with the advance of the adaptive optics, one can obtain much better data with the current FISS observations.</p><p>This volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers working in the field of solar physics and space sciences.</p><p>Originally published in Solar Physics, Vol. 288, Issue 1, 2013, and Vol. 289, Issue 11, 2014.</p>

Autorenportrait

Jongchul Chae is a Professor at Seoul National University. He received his PhD from Seoul National University and has worked at Big Bear Solar Observatory as a research scientist. He studies various kinds of magnetic activities in the solar outer atmosphere and analyzes new data obtained by space-borne observations and ground-based observations.

Weitere Details