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3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson1 Status of GONG+ Magnetograms How GONG makes magnetograms Performance Problems Solutions Schedule Data availability Pilot Projects.

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1 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson1 Status of GONG+ Magnetograms How GONG makes magnetograms Performance Problems Solutions Schedule Data availability Pilot Projects

2 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson2 How GONG Makes Magnetograms Photospheric 6768 Å Ni I line profile LCD & polarizer transmits LCP or RCP Switches state every second Images sorted & accumulated for 1 minute Line shift images produced in LCP and RCP Sum is the Doppler shift image Difference is longitudinal Zeeman splitting + Also get intensity and line strength images

3 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson3 Magnetogram Performance Inst noise level ~3 G per pixel per min Spatial resolution >5 arc second Dynamic range <  2300 G Scale tied to velocity cal error (~5%) Quick look available 2 min after obs Revealed  B ~ 100G with 15/15 X flares

4 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson4 Magnetogram Example November 25, 2000

5 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson5 Problems Slow modulation -> seeing and cloud noise Bad near limb and sunspots (  I < 0.5%) Asymmetric modulation -> zero error (<10 G) Slight, time-varying input polarization Time to switch CP states not the same LCD near focus so its variations show Image rotates during the day

6 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson6 Solutions Seeing Stretch CP images to spatially match Average over longer time Zero error Eliminate instrumental polarization  Better LCDs  Equalize switching time of LCD Adjust images after collection 

7 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson7 Schedule Replace old modulators/drivers (approved project) Prototype testing successfully done Final design underway Network installation done by 2/2006 Tweak older images (not an approved project yet) Extensive earlier effort led to improvement Now starting a review of this work Other data products - TBD

8 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson8 Data Availability Quick look magnetograms 1/hour (ftp) Quick look magnetograms 1/day (html) Final magnetograms 1/min (DMAC) Merged magnetogram time series (TBD) Synoptic maps – GONG classic (html and ftp) Other products (TBD)

9 3/2/2005MUG Meeting, Tucson9 Two Pilot Data Projects GONG Magnetic Activity Indices Full disk averages w/thresholds Meridional flow by LCT of magnetic network Based on KPVT work of Komm et al. Need to determine how much averaging is required to beat down supergranulation noise Both projects just starting May lead to standard data products


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