THÉMIS: a calibration-free solar telescope

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Original abstract

Context. THÉMIS was initially built as a calibration-free telescope, with the polarisation analysis performed in F1 focus, before any oblique reflection. Recently, the telescope was improved with installation of an Adaptive Optics apparatus. Aims. We would like to show you that it remains a calibration-free telescope, even if the two beams able to provide the light polarisation, are now separated in front of the cameras only. Methods. This is obtained owing to an adaptation of all the oblique reflections along the ray path. Results. We present raw images taken across a sunspot, with three lines: two polarisable lines, which display the sunspot magnetic field polarisation, linear and circular, and one unpolarisable line, which does not display any polarisation, which shows that the telescope is essentially free of any instrumental polarisation, because, if this line had showed any polarisation, this polarisation would have been of instrumental origin. Those images were recorded on September 12, 2024. We also present vector magnetic field, vector current density and vector Lorentz force maps obtained in July 2025, which are in accordance with previous results: circular currents wrapping spots clockwise about a positive polarity spot and counterclockwise about a negative polarity spot, and centripetal Lorentz force maintaining sunspots. Conclusions. As a result, THÉMIS remains a calibration-free telescope.

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