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Aleš Kučera, Mr. - Dr. |
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Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia |
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Session 5 - Poster |
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The CoMP-S instrument at the Lomnicky Peak Observatory - status report |
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A. Kučera, J. Ambróz, P. Gömöry, P. Habaj, J. Kavka, M. Kozák, P. Schwartz, J. Rybák (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia), S. Tomczyk, S. Sewell, P. Aumiller, R. Summers, L. Sutherland, A. Watt (High Altitude Observatory, The National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA) |
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The Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter for Slovakia (CoMP-S) has been
installed at the high-altitude Lomnicky Peak Observatory of the Astronomical Institute of SAS
(2633 m a.s.l.) in 2011. The instrument was designed and manufactured by HAO/NCAR
(Boulder, USA) with a tunable Lyot filter and polarimeter for visible and near IR
spectral regions. This instrument is proposed for coronagraphic observations of
magnetic and velocity fields in the solar corona and in prominences. A fundamental
upgrade of this instrument has been prepared with pair of cameras sensitive in the
near IR spectral region in a new camera module. This upgrade is being incorporated
to the instrument in course of the year 2014. In this contribution the technical
parameters of the final configuration the CoMP-S instrument containing four cameras,
covering both visible and near IR spectral regions, are described. We also present a
potential of the CoMP-S instrument for coronagraphic spectro-polarimetric
observations of the solar corona and prominences with a capability for sequential
measurements of the spectral profiles of all prominent emission lines in spectral
region from 500 to 1100 nm. |
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