Derivation of accurate polarization information about an astronomical target is a vital tool for
investigation of astrophysical processes. Use of large area detectors for imaging and …

Polarization is a fundamental property of light from astronomical objects, and measuring that
polarization often yields crucial information, which is unobtainable otherwise. This chapter …

Abstract Knowledge of the polarization state of radiation provides far more astrophysical
information than intensity alone. Polarimetry has played a key role in the development of …

Written by an experienced teacher and author, this must-have source for work with
polarimetric equipment and polarimetry in astronomy conveys the knowledge of the …

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NASA/ADS Astronomical Polarimetry Tinbergen, Jaap Abstract 1. Introduction; 2. A description …

We present an approach to classical polarimetry that requires no moving parts; is compact
and robust; and that encodes the complete polarization information on a single data frame …

Taking advantage of the advances in array detector technology, an imaging polarimeter
(IMPOL) has been constructed for measuring linear polarization in the wavelength band …

With a new class of imaging polarimeters it is now possible to eliminate the previous main
limiting factors of seeing and gain-table noise in the polarization images to allow spectro …

We have built and tested a compact, low-cost, but very high performance astronomical
polarimeter based on a continuously rotating half-wave plate and a high-speed imaging …

Polarization is a basic property of light and is fundamentally linked to the internal geometry
of a source of radiation. Polarimetry complements photometric, spectroscopic, and imaging …