Seminars at FGG
TorVergata Synoptic Solar Telescope. A compact, robotic facility for solar full disk imaging
Speaker: Andrea Chiodini (Universita' Tor Vergata (Roma, Italy))
Date and time: 2024-09-18 12:00
By the continuous multi-line observation of the solar atmosphere, it is possible to infer the magnetic and dynamical status of the Sun. With full disk dopplergrams and magnetograms the plasma movement and the magnetic field evolution could be traced. This information is essential to identify the possible precursors of space weather events, such as flare or coronal mass ejections; and the internal structure of the Sun could be infer studying the waves propagating in the solar atmosphere. The TorVergata Synoptic Solar Telescope (TSST) is a low-cost, robotic facility able to achieve the necessary data for these tasks. The TSST is composed of two main full-disk instruments, a Ha telescope and a Potassium (KI D1) magneto-optical filter (MOF) based telescope, operating at 769.9 nm. The telescope has a modular designed to be later upgraded with a second MOF channel and will cooperate in network with other synoptic MOF based telescopes to open new eyes on solar atmospheric layers.