SOUTH POL will be a survey of the Southern sky in optical polarized light. It will use a newly designed polarimetric module at an 80cm Robotic Telescope. Telescope and polarimeter will be installed at CTIO, Chile, in late 2012. The initial goal is to cover the sky south of declination -15{\deg} in two years of observing time, aiming at a polarimetric accuracy \lesssim 0.1% down to V=15, with a camera covering a field of about 2.0 square degrees. SOUTH POL will impact areas such as Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy, Interstellar Medium of the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds, Star Formation, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar explosions and Solar System, among others.
@article{arxiv.1201.3639,
title = {SOUTH POL: Revealing the Polarized Southern Sky},
author = {A. M. Magalhaes and C. M. de Oliveira and A. Carciofi and R. Costa and E. M. G. Dal Pino and M. Diaz and T. Ferrari and C. Fernandez and A. L. Gomes and L. Marrara and A. Pereyra and N. L. Ribeiro and C. V. Rodrigues and M. S. Rubinho and D. B. Seriacopi and K. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3639},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in "Stellar Polarimetry: from Birth to Death", Madison, WI, AIP Conf. Proc., 2012 (J. Hoffman, B. Whitney & J. Bjorkman eds.). After it is published, it will be found at http://www.aip.org