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This paper is devoted to the primary spectro-polarimetric observation performed at the New Vacuum Solar Telescope of China since 2017, and our aim is to precisely evaluate the real polarimetric accuracy and sensitivity of this polarimetry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jun-Feng Hou , Zhi Xu , Shu Yuan , Yu-Chao Chen , Jian-Guo Peng , Dong-Guang Wang , Jun Xu , Yuan-Yong Deng , Zhen-Yu Jin , Kai-Fan Ji , Zhong Liu

We present the "StoP" photometer-polarimeter (Stokes-polarimeter) used for observations with the 1-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the beginning of 2020. We describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Victor Afanasiev , Elena Shablovinskaya , Roman Uklein , Eugene Malygin

We discuss the design, construction, and operation of a new intensity interferometer, based on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. While this paper will focus on observations taken with an original…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Elliott P. Horch , Samuel A. Weiss , Paul M. Klaucke , Richard A. Pellegrino , Justin D. Rupert

We present the first orbital elements for the massive close binary, HD 101131, one of the brightest objects in the young, open cluster, IC 2944. This system is a double-lined spectroscopic binary in an elliptical orbit with a period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Gies , L. R. Penny , P. Mayer , H. Drechsel , R. Lorenz

This work shows details of an evaluation of an observational system comprising a CMOS detector, 60-cm telescope, and filter complement. The system's photometric precision and differential photometric precision, and extinction coefficients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Hai-Yang Mu , Zhou Fan , Yi-Nan Zhu , Yu Zhang , Hong Wu

We evaluate the ability of SPIDER, a balloon-borne polarimeter, to detect a divergence-free polarization pattern ("B-modes") in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In the inflationary scenario, the amplitude of this signal is…

We present a blind multi-detector multi-component spectral matching method for all sky observations of the cosmic microwave background, working on the spherical harmonics basis. The method allows to estimate on a set of observation maps the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Patanchon , H. Snoussi , J. F. Cardoso , J. Delabrouille

The CMB polarization is the Everest in the quest to characterize the earliest photons from the Universe. After a long list of ever-decreasing upper limits, a detection of polarization was made in 2002 by the DASI team at ell =~ 500. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Denis Barkats

We present spectro-astrometric observations for 28 southern pre-main sequence (PMS) stars and investigate their circumstellar environment down to AU scales. The structures detected in the ``position spectra'' include: (1) almost all the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Michihiro Takami , Jeremy Bailey , Antonio Chrysostomou

The detection and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets is one of the major science drivers for the next generation of telescopes. Current direct imaging instruments are limited by evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPAs). The NCPAs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Sebastiaan Y. Haffert

We present significant upgrades to the VAMPIRES instrument, a visible-light (600 nm to 800 nm) high-contrast imaging polarimeter integrated within SCExAO on the Subaru telescope. Key enhancements include new qCMOS detectors, coronagraphs,…

Spatial Fluorescence Cross Correlation Spectroscopy is a rarely investigated version of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, in which the fluorescence signals from different observation volumes are cross-correlated. In the reported…

Optics · Physics 2008-06-13 Yoann Blancquaert , Jie Gao , Jacques Derouard , Antoine Delon

A new application of a fast CCD drift scanning technique that allows us to perform speckle imaging of binary stars is presented. For each observation, an arbitrary number of speckle frames is periodically stored on a computer disk, each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Fors , E. P. Horch , J. Nunez

Diffraction-limited images can be obtained with a large optical telescope using interferometry. One such method for objects of sufficient brightness is non-redundant masking (NRM), in which observations are made through a pupil mask that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Timothy R. Bedding

Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic refracting millimeter-wave telescopes with large arrays of…

SPINOR is a new spectro-polarimeter that will serve as a facility instrument for the Dunn Solar Telescope at the National Solar Observatory. This instrument is capable of achromatic polarimetry over a very broad range of wavelengths, from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Socas-Navarro , D. Elmore , A. Pietarila , A. Darnell , B. W. Lites , S. Tomczyk

We describe the design, operation, and performance of a new high-speed infrared photometer using the Solid-State Photomultiplier (SSPM) detector. The SSPM was developed by Rockwell International Science Center and has single-photon counting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. S. Eikenberry , G. G. Fazio , S. M. Ransom

We present 1066 speckle measurements of M dwarf multiples observed over 2021-2024, all taken with HRCam on the Southern Astrophysical Research 4.1 m telescope. Among these, 900 observations resolve companions in 212 pairs, with separations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Eliot Halley Vrijmoet , Andrei Tokovinin , Todd J. Henry , Jennifer G. Winters , Wei-Chun Jao , Elliott Horch

We observed the planet-hosting system PDS 70 with the James Webb Interferometer, JWST's Aperture Masking Interferometric (AMI) mode within NIRISS. Observing with the F480M filter centered at 4.8 $\mu$m, we simultaneously fit geometrical…