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PlanetPol: A Very High Sensitivity Polarimeter
We have built and used on several occasions an optical broadband stellarpolarimeter, PlanetPol, which employs photoelastic modulators andavalanche photodiodes and achieves a photon-noise-limited sensitivity ofat least 1 in 106 in fractional polarization. Observations ofa number of polarized standards taken from the literature show that theaccuracy of polarization measurements is ~1%. We have developed a methodfor accurately measuring the polarization of altitude-azimuth mountedtelescopes by observing bright nearby stars at different parallacticangles, and we find that the on-axis polarization of the WilliamHerschel Telescope is typically ~15 × 10-6, measuredwith an accuracy of a few parts in 107. The nearby stars(distance less than 32 pc) are found to have very low polarizations,typically a few ×10-6, indicating that very littleinterstellar polarization is produced close to the Sun and that theirintrinsic polarization is also low. Although the polarimeter can be usedfor a wide range of astronomy, the very high sensitivity was set by thegoal of detecting the polarization signature of unresolved extrasolarplanets.
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| Csillagkép: | Északi Vízikígyó |
| Rektaszcenzió: | 08h56m59.71s |
| Deklináció: | -12°49'07.5" |
| Vizuális fényesség: | 8.547 |
| Távolság: | 1515.152 parszek |
| RA sajátmozgás: | -2.3 |
| Dec sajátmozgás: | -4.9 |
| B-T magnitude: | 10.205 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.684 |
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