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Taurus is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment optimized to map the E-mode polarization and Galactic foregrounds at the largest angular scales ($\ell$ $\lt$ 30) and improve measurements of the optical depth to…

We design a polarization-sensitive resonator for use in midinfrared photodetectors, utilizing a photonic crystal cavity and a single or double-metal plasmonic waveguide to achieve enhanced detector efficiency due to superior optical…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-16 Jessie Rosenberg , Rajeev V. Shenoi , Sanjay Krishna , Oskar Painter

Polarized neutrons are a powerful probe to investigate magnetism in condensed matter on length scales from single atomic distances to micrometers. With the ongoing advancement of neutron optics, that allow to transport beams with increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Jochen Stahn , Artur Glavic

Polarized dust emission is a key tracer in the study of interstellar medium and of star formation. The observed polarization, however, is a product of magnetic field structure, dust grain properties and grain alignment efficiency, as well…

We have used the rocket-borne Wide-Field Imaging Survey Polarimeter (WISP) to image a 1.5 deg. by 4.8 deg. area of the western side of the LMC at a wavelength of 215 nm and a resolution of 1' x 1.5'. These are the first wide-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew A. Cole , Kenneth H. Nordsieck , Steven J. Gibson , Walter M. Harris

The DKIST is designed to deliver accurate spectropolarimetric calibrations across a wide wavelength range and large field of view for solar observations. Instruments deliver spectral resolving powers up to 300,000 in multiple cameras of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 David M. Harrington , Stacey R. Sueoka , Amanda J. White

The Gas Pixel Detector was designed and built as a focal plane instrument for X-ray polarimetry of celestial sources, the last unexplored subtopics of X-ray astronomy. It promises to perform detailed and sensitive measurements resolving…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Sergio Fabiani , Enrico Costa , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Massimo Minuti , Michele Pinchera , Gloria Spandre

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the Universe. Despite over 50 years of research and measurements their prompt emission remains poorly understood, with key questions surrounding the structure of relativistic…

Observations in the UV-regime are very important for exoplanet research, because many diagnostically important lines for studying stellar activity are in this regime. Studying stellar activity is not only important because of its negative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-16 Guenther , E. W. , Kabath , P. , Vanzi , L

Stellar spectropolarimetry is a relatively new remote sensing tool for exploring stellar atmospheres and circumstellar environments. We present the results of our HiVIS survey and a multi-wavelength ESPaDOnS follow-up campaign showing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 D. M. Harrington , J. R. Kuhn

We are developing an imaging polarimeter by combining a fine-pixel CMOS image sensor with a coded aperture mask as part of the cipher project, aiming to achieve X-ray polarimetry in the energy range of…

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

BaR-SPOrt (Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations) is an experiment to measure the linearly polarized emission of sky patches at 32 and 90 GHz with sub-degree angular resolution. It is equipped with high sensitivity…

A polarimeter has been built for use with the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA), on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. SCUBA is the first of a new generation of highly sensitive submillimetre cameras, and…

Pulsed UV lasers can provide useful "testbeams" for observatories that use optical detectors, especially fluorescence detectors, to measure high energy cosmic-rays. The light observed by the detector is proportional to the energy of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Lawrence Wiencke , Fernando Arqueros , John Compton , Maria Monasor , David Pilger , Jaime Rosado

In spite of the advent of extremely large telescopes in the UV/optical/NIR range, the current generation of 8-10m facilities is likely to remain competitive at ground-UV wavelengths for the foreseeable future. The Cassegrain U-Band…

A portable NMR polarimeter system has been developed to measure the polarization of a polarized Hydrogen-Deuteride (HD) target for hadron photoproduction experiments at SPring-8. The polarized HD target is produced at the Research Center…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Ohta , M. Fujiwara , K. Fukuda , H. Kohri , T. Kunimatsu , C. Morisaki , S. Ono , M. Tanaka , K. Ueda , M. Uraki , M. Utsuro , S. Y. Wang , M. Yosoi

After a short analysis of the main problems involved in the construction of a Far Infrared polarimeter with very low instrumental noise, we describe the instrument that will be employed at MITO telescope to search for calibration sources…