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The Integrated Magnetic Field of the Sun Seen by the Golf Experiment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2017
Abstract
The secondary objective of the GOLF experiment on-board the SOHO space mission is to measure the line-of-sight component of the disk averaged magnetic field of the Sun. GOLF is an improved disk-integrated sunlight resonant scattering spectrophotometer. Using an extra fixed quarter wave plate placed at the entrance of the instrument, enables a selection of the circularly polarized solar light and therefore, the disk averaged solar line-of-sight component of the magnetic field can be obtained. Unfortunately, due to occasional malfunction of the rotating mechanisms, only a series of 26 continuous days are available. Here, the analysis of this series is presented including the value of the averaged magnetic field.
- Type
- IV. Solar Small-Scale Structure
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 185: New Eyes to See Inside the Sun and Stars , 1998 , pp. 225 - 226
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1998