Authors: J Schou P H Scherrer R I Bush R Wachter S Couvidat M C RabelloSoares R S Bogart J T Hoeksema Y Liu T L Duvall D J Akin B A Allard J W Miles R Rairden R A Shine T D Tarbell A M Title C J Wolfson D F Elmore A A Norton S Tomczyk
Publish Date: 2011/10/04
Volume: 275, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 229-259
Abstract
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager HMI investigation Solar Phys doi 101007/s1120701198342 2011 will study the solar interior using helioseismic techniques as well as the magnetic field near the solar surface The HMI instrument is part of the Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO that was launched on 11 February 2010 The instrument is designed to measure the Doppler shift intensity and vector magnetic field at the solar photosphere using the 6173 Å Fe i absorption line The instrument consists of a frontwindow filter a telescope a set of waveplates for polarimetry an imagestabilization system a blocking filter a fivestage Lyot filter with one tunable element two widefield tunable Michelson interferometers a pair of 40962 pixel cameras with independent shutters and associated electronics Each camera takes a fulldisk image roughly every 375 seconds giving an overall cadence of 45 seconds for the Doppler intensity and lineofsight magneticfield measurements and a slower cadence for the full vector magnetic field This article describes the design of the HMI instrument and provides an overview of the prelaunch calibration efforts Overviews of the investigation details of the calibrations data handling and the science analysis are provided in accompanying articlesThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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