Prospects of solar magnetometry - from ground and in space

TL;DR

This review discusses upcoming solar observation facilities with a focus on magnetic field measurements, highlighting challenges, current status, and future instrumentation upgrades for ground and space-based solar magnetometry.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of future solar magnetometry facilities, emphasizing their potential, challenges, and planned upgrades, which is a novel synthesis of upcoming observational capabilities.

Findings

Upcoming facilities will enhance magnetic field measurement precision.

Current observatories have varying capabilities in magnetic measurements.

Future upgrades aim to overcome existing limitations in solar magnetometry.

Abstract

In this review we present an overview of observing facilities for solar research, which are planned or will come to operation in near future. We concentrate on facilities, which harbor specific potential for solar magnetometry. We describe the challenges and science goals of future magnetic measurements, the status of magnetic field measurements at different major solar observatories, and provide an outlook on possible upgrades of future instrumentation.