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采用铁电液晶调制器的高灵敏度旋光仪

A high-sensitivity polarimeter using a ferro-electric liquid crystal modulator

Jeremy Bailey, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Daniel V. Cotton, Kimberly Bott, J. H. Hough, P. W. Lucas

摘要:

我们描述了高精度旋光仪(HIPPI),一个旋光仪建于澳大利亚新南威尔士大学和使用的英澳望远镜(AAT)。HIPPI是一种使用铁电液晶调制器的孔径偏振计。HIPPI测量星光的线偏振,对低偏振物体的分数偏振的灵敏度为~4 x 10 $^{-6}$,对高偏振恒星的精度优于0.01%。探测器具有高动态范围,可以观测天空中最亮的恒星以及更暗的物体。在g'波段,AAT的望远镜偏振度为48 $\pm$ 5 × 10 $^{-6}$.

英文摘要:

We describe the HIgh Precision Polarimetric Instrument (HIPPI), a polarimeter built at UNSW Australia and used on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). HIPPI is an aperture polarimeter using a ferro-electric liquid crystal modulator. HIPPI measures the linear polarization of starlight with a sensitivity in fractional polarization of ~4 x 10$^{-6}$ on low polarization objects and a precision of better than 0.01% on highly polarized stars. The detectors have a high dynamic range allowing observations of the brightest stars in the sky as well as much fainter objects. The telescope polarization of the AAT is found to be 48 $\pm$ 5 x 10$^{-6}$ in the g' band.

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