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Improved magnetogram calibration of SMFT and its comparison with the HMI

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2014-09-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we try to improve the magnetogram calibration method of the Solar Magnetic Field Telescope (SMFT). The improved calibration process fits the observed full Stokes information, using six points on the profile of Fe {\i} 5324.18 {\AA} line, and the analytical Stokes profiles under the Milne-Eddington atmosphere model, adopting the Levenberg-Marquardt least-square fitting algorithm. In Comparison with the linear calibration methods, which employs one point, there is large difference in the strength of longitudinal field BlB_l and tranverse field BtB_t, caused by the non-linear relationship, but the discrepancy is little in the case of inclination and azimuth. We conclude that it is better to deal with the non-linear effects in the calibration of BlB_l and BtB_t using six points. Moreover, in comparison with SDO/HMI, SMFT has larger stray light and acquires less magnetic field strength. For vector magnetic fields in two sunspot regions, the magnetic field strength, inclination and azimuth angles between SMFT and HMI are roughly in agrement, with the linear fitted slope of 0.73/0.7, 0.95/1.04 and 0.99/1.1. In the case of pores and quiet regions (BlB_l << 600 G), the fitted slopes of the longitudinal magnetic field strength are 0.78 and 0.87 respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1409.4869,
  title  = {Improved magnetogram calibration of SMFT and its comparison with the HMI},
  author = {Xianyong Bai and Yuanyong Deng and Fei Teng and Jiangtao Su and Xinjie Mao and Guoping Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4869},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS