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Table 6

Summary of the general requirements of the integral field spectropolarimeters.

Spatial resolution Diffraction limit in each optical arm
FOV 10″ × 10″
Cadence 1. Up to around 60 FPS in spectroscopy mode
2. 15 s at diffraction limit, polarimetry with 5 × 10−4 of Icont
Integral Field Unit 1. Microlens arrays in the blue, visible, and red arms.
2. Image slicer in the infrared arms
Spectral resolution Minimum of 150 000
Spectral range Minimum of 1 nm
Reference spectral lines 1. Blue: Ca II 396 nm, BaII 455 nm, Sr I 461 nm, Hβ 486 nm
2. Visible: Mg I 517 nm, Na I 589 nm, Fe I 630 nm, Hα 656 nm
3. Red: K I 770 nm, Ca II 854 nm
4. Infrared: He I 1083 nm, Fe I 1565 nm
Polarimetry Dual-beam to reduce the seeing-induced crosstalk

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