Instruments
The SST has two modes of operation. One mode is a spectrograph mode, using the TRI-Port Polarimetric Echelle-Littrow (TRIPPEL) spectrograph with a resolution of R = 230 000 (corresponding to 1.3 km/s at the solar surface). TRIPPEL is a Littrow spectrograph using a 79 grooves/mm echelle grating with a blaze angle of 63.43 degrees.
The other mode is an imaging mode, where imaging is split up in a red and a blue beam by a dichroic beamsplitter. The red beam has a tunable filter called CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) which operates from 510 to 860 nm and is able to measure polarization by using liquid crystal modulation combined with a polarizing beamsplitter. The total system uses three 1k × 1k Sarnoff CCDs, two are used for direct observations and the third is used in aiding the MOMFBD image reconstruction method. The blue beam is a setup with a total of 4 MegaPlus II es4020 cameras.
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