The Hinode Spectro-Polarimeter

The joint Japan/US/UK Hinode mission includes the first large-aperture visible-light solar telescope flown in space. One component of the Focal Plane Package of that telescope is a precision spectro-polarimeter designed to measure full Stokes spectra with the intent of using those spectra to infer the magnetic-field vector at high precision in the solar photosphere. This article describes the characteristics of the flight hardware of the Hinode Spectro-Polarimeter, and summarizes its in-flight performance.

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Author Lites, Bruce
Akin, D.
Card, Gregory
Cruz, T.
Duncan, D.
Edwards, C.
Elmore, David
Hoffmann, C.
Katsukawa, Y.
Katz, N.
Kubo, M.
Ichimoto, K.
Shimizu, T.
Shine, R.
Streander, Kim
Suematsu, A.
Tarbell, T.
Title, A.
Tsuneta, S.
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Library
Publication Date 2013-04-01T00:00:00
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Metadata Date 2023-08-18T18:50:54.019074
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Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Lites, Bruce, Akin, D., Card, Gregory, Cruz, T., Duncan, D., Edwards, C., Elmore, David, Hoffmann, C., Katsukawa, Y., Katz, N., Kubo, M., Ichimoto, K., Shimizu, T., Shine, R., Streander, Kim, Suematsu, A., Tarbell, T., Title, A., Tsuneta, S.. (2013). The Hinode Spectro-Polarimeter. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7db82np. Accessed 30 June 2025.

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