One of the first post-focus instruments of the new solar telescope GREGOR will be a Fabry-Perot spectrometer, which is an upgrade of the Göttingen Fabry-Perot...
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PublicationA full-Stokes polarimeter for the GREGOR Fabry-Perot interferometer
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PublicationA polarization model for the German Vacuum Tower Telescope from in situ and laboratory measurements
It is essential to properly calibrate the polarimetric properties of telescopes, if one wants to take advantage of the capabilities of high precision spectro...
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PublicationA quantitative comparison of vector magnetic field measurement and analysis techniques
We make a quantitative comparison between spectral vs filter measurement and analysis techniques for extraction of solar vector magnetic fields from...
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PublicationA retrospective of the GREGOR solar telescope in scientific literature
In this review, we look back upon the literature, which had the GREGOR solar telescope project as its subject including science cases, telescope subsystems, and...
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PublicationActive Region Magnetic Fields. I. Plage Fields
We present observations taken with the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP) in active-region plages and study the frequency distribution of the magnetic field...
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PublicationAssessing the Behavior of Modern Solar Magnetographs and Spectropolarimeters
The design and later use of modern spectropolarimeters and magnetographs require a number of tolerance specifications that allow the developers to build the...
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PublicationBalloon-Borne Submillimeter Polarimetry of the Vela C Molecular Cloud: Systematic Dependence of Polarization Fraction on Column Density and Local Polarization-Angle Dispersion
We present results for Vela C obtained during the 2012 flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry. We mapped polarized...
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PublicationCharacterization of telescope polarization properties across the visible and near-infrared spectrum. Case study: the Dunn Solar Telescope
Accurate astrophysical polarimetry requires a proper characterization of the polarization properties of the telescope and instrumentation employed to obtain the...
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PublicationCompressed sensing for next generation instruments
This document discusses the possibility of using compressed sensing techniques for measuring 2D spectro-polarimetric information using only one etalon and a...