SH13D-2462
Design review of the Brazilian Experimental Solar Telescope
Monday, 14 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Luis Eduardo A Vieira1, Alisson Dal Lago1, Braulio Albuquerque2, Bruno Castilho3, Fernando L Guarnieri1, Flavia R Cardoso4, Gustavo Guerrero5, Jenny Marcela Rodríguez6, Jesulino Santos3, Joaquim E R Costa6, Judith Palacios7, Ligia da Silva1, Livia Ribeiro Alves8, Lucas L. Costa2, Marcelo Sampaio2, Marcos V Dias Silveira1, Margarete Oliveira Domingues2, Marlos Rockenbach1, Maria C.O. Aquino2, Maria Cristina R Soares5, Maria J Barbosa2, Odim Mendes Jr2, Paulo Ricardo Jauer9, Renato Branco2, Renato Dallaqua2, Tardelli Ronan Coelho Stekel1, Tereza S. N. Pinto6, Varlei E Menconi2, Vitor Moura Cardoso e Silva Souza1 and Walter Gonzalez1, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, (3)LNA - Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica, Itajuba, Brazil, (4)Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (5)UFMG Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, (6)National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil, (7)University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, (8)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Space Science Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (9)Inst Nac Pesquisas Espaciais, são josé dos campos - SP, Brazil
Abstract:
The Brazilian’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in collaboration with the Engineering School of Lorena/University of São Paulo (EEL/USP), the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and the Brazilian’s National Laboratory for Astrophysics (LNA), is developing a solar vector magnetograph and visible-light imager to study solar processes through observations of the solar surface magnetic field. The Brazilian Experimental Solar Telescope is designed to obtain full disk magnetic field and line-of-sight velocity observations in the photosphere. Here we discuss the system requirements and the first design review of the instrument. The instrument is composed by a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with a 500 mm aperture and 4000 mm focal length. LCD polarization modulators will be employed for the polarization analysis and a tuning Fabry-Perot filter for the wavelength scanning near the Fe II 630.25 nm line. Two large field-of-view, high-resolution 5.5 megapixel sCMOS cameras will be employed as sensors. Additionally, we describe the project management and system engineering approaches employed in this project. As the magnetic field anchored at the solar surface produces most of the structures and energetic events in the upper solar atmosphere and significantly influences the heliosphere, the development of this instrument plays an important role in advancing scientific knowledge in this field. In particular, the Brazilian's Space Weather program will benefit most from the development of this technology. We expect that this project will be the starting point to establish a strong research program on Solar Physics in Brazil. Our main aim is to progressively acquire the know-how to build state-of-art solar vector magnetograph and visible-light imagers for space-based platforms.
