EMPOL: an EMCCD based optical imaging polarimeter

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العنوان: EMPOL: an EMCCD based optical imaging polarimeter
المؤلفون: Archita Rai, Shashikiran Ganesh, Amish B. Shah, Pitamber Singh Patwal, Ashish Mishra, K. Aravind, Prashanth Kumar Kasarla, U. C. Joshi, S. N. Mathur, Namita Uppal, Kiran S. Baliyan, Sunil Chandra, Prachi Vinod Prajapati, Deekshya Roy Sarkar, Alka Singh
بيانات النشر: arXiv, 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics, business.industry, Detector, Cassegrain reflector, FOS: Physical sciences, Polarimeter, Field of view, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, Dark nebula, Prism, business, Focus (optics), Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
الوصف: An Andor 1K $\times$ 1K EMCCD detector has been used to develop an optical imaging polarimeter for use at the Cassegrain focus of 1.2 m telescope of PRL. The optics is derived from an older single-element detector instrument and consists of a rotating half-wave plate as modulator and a Foster prism as an analyser. The field of view of the instrument is 3 $\times$ 3 sq arcmin. We describe the instrument and the observational methodology in this document. Extensive observations have been carried out with this instrument covering a large variety of sources e.g. near-Earth asteroids, comets, Lynds dark nebulae, open clusters and AGN such as blazars. In the current communication, we discuss some results from the initial calibration runs while the other results will be presented elsewhere.
Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to SPIE Conference Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.08768
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c3f5ee0be5e7ca8f5dc0be9869c30fd8
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....c3f5ee0be5e7ca8f5dc0be9869c30fd8
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2012.08768