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Future instrumentation for solar physics: a double channel MOF imager on board ASI Space Mission ADAHELI

Astrophysics and Space Science volume 328, pages 313–318 (2010)Cite this article

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A Magneto-Optical Filter-based system has been proposed as an optional payload for ASI’s low-budget Solar Mission ADAHELI, which has completed its Phase A feasibility study. The instrument is capable of providing simultaneous Dopplergrams, intensity and magnetic solar full-disk maps using the potassium 770 nm and sodium 589 nm solar Fraunhofer lines. The instrument is a version, re-designed for a space environment, of the one which has run an observing campaign at the South Pole in 2008 with unprecedented performance. The MOF-based system we present here is a low-cost, low-weight instrument, thus particularly fit to space applications, capable of providing stability and sensitivity of signals on long-term observations. The instrument will explore regions of the oscillation spectrum not available to other missions’ instruments.

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  1. Department of Earth and Environment, CNR, P.le A. Moro 7, 00185, Rome, Italy

    P. F. Moretti

  2. Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    F. Berrilli & A. Bigazzi

  3. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    S. M. Jefferies

  4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA

    N. Murphy

  5. Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    L. Roselli

  6. INAF—IASF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Roma, Rome, Italy

    M. P. Di Mauro

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Moretti, P.F., Berrilli, F., Bigazzi, A. et al. Future instrumentation for solar physics: a double channel MOF imager on board ASI Space Mission ADAHELI. Astrophys Space Sci 328, 313–318 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-009-0251-z

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