The Lyman-alpha Imager onboard Solar Polar Orbit Telescope

Baoquan Li; Haitao Li; Sizhong Zhou; Bo Jiang

doi:10.1117/12.2035494

31 December 2013 The Lyman-alpha Imager onboard Solar Polar Orbit Telescope

Baoquan Li, Haitao Li, Sizhong Zhou, Bo Jiang

Proceedings Volume 9042, 2013 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Systems and Modern Optoelectronic Instruments; 90420Y (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2035494
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology (OIT2013), 2013, Beijing, China

Abstract

Solar Polar ORbit Telescope (SPORT) was originally proposed in 2004 by the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is currently being under background engineering study phase in China. SPORT will carry a suite of remote-sensing and in-situ instruments to observe coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar high-latitude magnetism, and the fast solar wind from a polar orbit around the Sun. The Lyman-alpha Imager (LMI) is one of the key remotesensing instruments onboard SPORT with 45arcmin FOV, 2000mm effective focal length and 1.4arcsec/pixel spatial resolution . The size of LMI is φ150×1000mm, and the weight is less than10kg, including the 7kg telescope tube and 3kg electronic box. There are three 121.6nm filters used in the LMI optical path, so the 98% spectral purity image of 121.6nm can be achieved. The 121.6nm solar Lyman-alpha line is produced in the chromosphere and very sensitive to plasma temperature, plasma velocity and magnetism variation in the chromosphere. Solar Lyman-alpha disk image is an ideal tracker for corona magnetism variation.

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Baoquan Li, Haitao Li, Sizhong Zhou, and Bo Jiang "The Lyman-alpha Imager onboard Solar Polar Orbit Telescope", Proc. SPIE 9042, 2013 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Systems and Modern Optoelectronic Instruments, 90420Y (31 December 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2035494

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