GREGOR: the New German Solar Telescope

Balthasar, H.; von der Lühe, O.; Kneer, F.; Staude, J.; Volkmer, R.; Berkefeld, T.; Caligari, P.; Collados, M.; Halbgewachs, C.; Heidecke, F.; Hofmann, A.; Klvaňa, M.; Nicklas, H.; Popow, E.; Puschmann, K.; Schmidt, W.; Sobotka, M.; Soltau, D.; Strassmeier, K.; Wittmann, A.
Referencia bibliográfica

The Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas ASP Conference Series, Vol. 368, Proceedings of the conference held 9-13 October, 2006 at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. Edited by P. Heinzel, I. Dorotovič, and R. J. Rutten. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007., p.605

Fecha de publicación:
5
2007
Número de autores
20
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0
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5
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4
Descripción
GREGOR is a new open solar telescope with an aperture of 1.5 m. It replaces the former 45-cm Gregory Coudé telescope on the Canary island Tenerife. The optical concept is that of a double Gregory system. The main and the elliptical mirrors are made from a silicon-carbide material with high thermal conductivity. This is important to keep the mirrors on the ambient temperature avoiding local turbulence. GREGOR will be equipped with an adaptive optics system. The new telescope will be ready for operation in 2008. Post-focus instruments in the first stage will be a spectrograph for polarimetry in the near infrared and a 2-dimensional spectrometer based on Fabry-Pérot interferometers for the visible.