no code implementations • 18 Feb 2021 • Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash, Pravin Khodade, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Bhushan S. Joshi, Pravin Chordia, Ramya M. Anche, Shrish Mishra, Dmitry Blinov, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy J. Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Stephen B. Potter, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Raphail Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis, Ingunn K. Wehus
WALOP (Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter)-South, to be mounted on the 1m SAAO telescope in South Africa, is first of the two WALOP instruments currently under development for carrying out the PASIPHAE survey.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2021 • Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Ramya M. Anche, Shrish, Dmitry Blinov, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy J. Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Stephen B. Potter, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis, Ingunn K. Wehus
The WALOP-South instrument will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in South Africa as part of the PASIPHAE program to carry out a linear imaging polarization survey of the Galactic polar regions in the optical band.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2019 • Dhruv Paranjpye, Ashish Mahabal, A. N. Ramaprakash, Gina Panopoulou, Kieran Cleary, Anthony Readhead, Dmitry Blinov, Kostas Tassis
Polarization measurements done using Imaging Polarimeters such as the Robotic Polarimeter are very sensitive to the presence of artefacts in images.