Technique - (1) Balloon/aircraft-borne EUV and infrared solar spectropolarimeter instrumentation

Type: Fabrication

Description: Development of compact telescopes and spectrometers flown on high-altitude aircraft and stratospheric balloons to observe the solar corona in the EUV and infrared with sensitivity to coronal magnetic fields.

Department(s)/lab(s): Astronomy | Samra Solar Instrumentation Lab @ Harvard
Summary:

Samra develops telescopes and spectrometers flown on aircraft and balloons to observe the solar corona at EUV and infrared wavelengths, including solar magnetometry, optical design, and modeling — a borderline but included astronomy-instrumentation case given its magnetometric sensing goal, though the platform is a classical (non-quantum) spectropolarimeter.