IMax: a visible magnetograph for SUNRISE
Abstract
The description of the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) is presented in this contribution. This is a magnetograph which will fly by the end of 2006 on a stratospheric balloon, together with other instruments (to be described elsewhere). Especial emphasis is put on the scientific requirements to obtain diffraction-limited visible magnetograms, on the optical design and several constraining characteristics, such as the wavelength tuning or the crosstalk between the Stokes parameters.
- Publication:
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Polarimetry in Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- February 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.459379
- Bibcode:
- 2003SPIE.4843...20J