Opportunities for Imaging and Spectro-Polarimetry at UKIRT
Davis, C.J., Chrysostomou, A. and Hough, J.
(2005)
Opportunities for Imaging and Spectro-Polarimetry at UKIRT.
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In: Astronomical Polarimetry: Current Status and Future Directions - ASP Conference Series 343 :.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 79-80.
ISBN 978-1-58381-277-8
Near-IR imaging and spectro-polarimetry are offered with the facility instruments UIST and UFTI. Both linear and circular polarimetry are possible, the former from 1-5¹m, the latter from 1-2.5¹m. The IRPOL polarimetry module utilises Wollaston prisms (installed cold inside each instrument) and achromatic (JHK) or compound zero-order (LM) wave plates. Pipeline data reduction software is also available for all observing modes.
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