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One of the major science goals of the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) payload aboard the Aditya-L1 mission is to map the coronal magnetic field topology and the quantitative estimation of longitudinal magnetic field on routine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 K. Nagaraju , B. Raghavendra Prasad , Bhavana S. Hegde , Suresh Venkata Narra , D. Utkarsha , Amit Kumar , Jagdev Singh , Varun Kumar

Taking advantage of the advances in array detector technology, an imaging polarimeter (IMPOL) has been constructed for measuring linear polarization in the wavelength band from 400-800 nm. It makes use of a Wollaston prism as the analyser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 A. N. Ramaprakash , Ranjan Gupta , A. K. Sen , S. N. Tandon

Linear (spectro) polarimetry is usually performed using separate photon flux measurements after spatial or temporal polarization modulation. Such classical polarimeters are limited in sensitivity and accuracy by systematic effects and…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-28 Frans Snik , Theodora Karalidi , Christoph U. Keller

We investigate the possibility of measuring magnetic field strength in G-band bright points through the analysis of Zeeman polarization in molecular CH lines. To this end we solve the equations of polarized radiative transfer in the G band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Uitenbroek , E. Miller-Ricci , A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

Ellerman bombs are bright emission features observed in the wings of H$\alpha$, usually in the vicinity of magnetic concentrations. Here we show that they can also be detected in the Ca II infrared triplet lines, which are easier to…

Speckle polarimeter (SPP) is a facility instrument of the 2.5-m telescope of the Caucasian Mountain Observatory of SAI MSU. By design it is a combination of a speckle interferometer and a dual--beam polarimeter. In 2022 we performed a major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 I. A. Strakhov , B. S. Safonov , D. V. Cheryasov

We present SQUIDPOL, a low-cost, multi-channel optical imaging polarimeter that performs simultaneous linear polarization measurements using a rotating half-wave plate, a non-polarizing beam splitter, and four wire-grid filters. We show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sunho Jin , Jooyeon Geem , Masateru Ishiguro , Woojin Park , Heeyoung Oh , Chan Park , Seungwon Choi , Yoonsoo P. Bach , Hyeonwoo Ju , Jinguk Seo , Bumhoo Lim , Myungshin Im

We show a selection of high-sensitivity spectropolarimetric observations obtained over the last few years in the Ba II D2-line with the Zurich Imaging Polarimeter (ZIMPOL) attached to the Gregory Coude Telescope of IRSOL. The measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 R. Ramelli , M. Bianda , J. Trujillo Bueno , L. Belluzzi , E. Landi Degl'Innocenti

We reduced ESO's archival linear spectropolarimetry data (4000-9000\AA) of 6 highly polarized and 8 unpolarized standard stars observed between 2010 and 2016, for a total of 70 epochs, with the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Aleksandar Cikota , Ferdinando Patat , Stefan Cikota , Tamar Faran

We report on the first ever detection of circular polarization in molecular lines forming in magnetic regions on the surfaces of active stars. The new observations were obtained with the high-resolution spectropolarimeter ESPaDOnS recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Berdyugina , P. Petit , D. M. Fluri , N. Afram , J. Arnaud

WIRC+Pol is a near-infrared low-resolution spectropolarimeter on the 200-inch Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The instrument utilizes a polarization grating to perform polarimetric beam splitting and spectral dispersion simultaneously. It…

We introduce a new polarimeter installed on the high-resolution fiber-fed echelle spectrograph (called BOES) of the 1.8-m telescope at the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea. The instrument is intended to measure stellar…

RoboPol is a four-channel, one-shot linear optical polarimeter that has been successfully operating since 2013 on the 1.3 m telescope at Skinakas Observatory in Crete, Greece. Using its unique optical system, it measures the linear Stokes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Siddharth Maharana , Dmitry Blinov , A. N. Ramaprakash , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Konstantinos Tassis

We present 450 {\mu}m polarimetric observations of the M17 molecular cloud obtained with the SHARP polarimeter at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. Across the observed region, the magnetic field orientation is consistent with previous…

Stokes polarimetry (SP) is a powerful technique that enables spatial reconstruction of the state of polarization (SoP) of a light beam using only intensity measurements. A given SoP is reconstructed from a set of four Stokes parameters,…

The Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South instrument is an upcoming wide-field and high-accuracy optical polarimeter to be used as a survey instrument for carrying out the Polar-Areas Stellar Imaging in Polarization High…

Here we report the first detection of polarization signals induced by the Zeeman effect in spectral lines of the E^4\Pi-A^4\Pi system of FeH located around 1.6 $\mu$m. Motivated by the tentative detection of this band in the intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno , M. Collados

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. Designed to achieve…

WIRC+Pol is a newly commissioned low-resolution (R~100), near-infrared (J and H band) spectropolarimetry mode of the Wide-field InfraRed Camera (WIRC) on the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The instrument utilizes a novel…

Stokes polarimetry is widely used to extract the polarisation structure of optical fields, typically from six measurements, although it can be extracted from only four. To measure the required intensities, most approaches are based on…