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Progress in the Measurement of Solar Magnetic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Guoxiang Ai
Guoxiang Ai*
Affiliation:
Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China

Abstract

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The historical development of optical instruments for solar physics is outlined, from white light to unpolarized and polarized monochromatic light, to Stokes profiles and simultaneous fields of view, from points to lines, plane to cube. An evolutionary series and classificaton of instruments for the solar magnetic field is described. As a next step the 2-D real time polarizing spectrograph has been proposed. The planned instruments in China for measurements of solar magnetic and velocity fields are briefly introduced.

Information

Type
Session 3. Techniques of Magnetic Field Measurements
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 141: The Magnetic and Velocity Fields of Solar Active Regions , 1993 , pp. 149 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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