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The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope first light instruments and critical science plan
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Paper Abstract

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is a 4-meter-class all-reflecting telescope under construction on Haleakalā mountain on the island of Maui, Hawai’i. When fully operational in 2019 it will be the world's largest solar telescope with wavelength coverage of 380 nm to 28 microns and advanced Adaptive Optics enabling the highest spatial resolution measurements of the solar atmosphere yet achieved. We review the first-generation DKIST instrument designs, select critical science program topics, and the operations and data handling and processing strategies to accomplish them.

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Date Published: 8 July 2014
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 914707 (8 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2057038
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David F. Elmore, National Solar Observatory (United States)
Thomas Rimmele, National Solar Observatory (United States)
Roberto Casini, National Ctr. for Atmospheric Research (United States)
Steve Hegwer, National Solar Observatory (United States)
Jeff Kuhn, Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawai'i (United States)
Haosheng Lin, Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawai'i (United States)
Joseph P. McMullin, National Solar Observatory (United States)
Kevin Reardon, National Solar Observatory (United States)
Wolfgang Schmidt, Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Germany)
Alexandra Tritschler, National Solar Observatory (United States)
Friedrich Wöger, National Solar Observatory (United States)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9147:
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Suzanne K. Ramsay; Ian S. McLean; Hideki Takami, Editor(s)

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