The 4m Advance Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is under construction on Maui, HI. With its unprecedented resolution and photon collecting power ATST will be an ideal tool studying prominences and filaments and their role in producing Coronal Mass Ejections. The ATST facility will provide a set of first light instruments that enable imaging and spectroscopy of the dynamic filament and prominence structure at eight times the resolution of Hinode. Polarimeters allow high precision chromospheric and coronal magnetometry of prominence structure at visible and infrared (IR) wavelengths. The infrared is particularly attractive for coronal spectroscopy and magnetometry due to low sky and instrumental background and relatively bright mid-IR coronal emission lines. We will review the design and capabilities of the ATST first light instruments when operated individually or as a system. Current concepts for data products from the instruments and community access to data products will be discussed.
| Subject : | : | Invited |
| Topics | : | Session IV Instrumentation, Missions and Techniques |
| Keywords | : | prominences ; magnetic fields ; corona ; chromosphere ; polarimetry ; instrumentation |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
