3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Commissioning and on-sky performance of FiberPol: a fiber-fed spectropolarimetric system for the SAAO 1.9 m telescope
Siddharth Maharana, K. C. J. Dennison-Farrar, Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay +8
At the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), we have developed FiberPol a spectropolarimetric front-end for the SpUpNIC spectrograph on the 1.9 m telescope fed by fiber…
astro-ph.IM2024
Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter
Siddharth Maharana, A. N. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi +28
Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it wil…
astro-ph.HE2024
Optical spectroscopic and photometric classification of the X-ray transient EP240309a (EP J115415.8-501810) as an intermediate polar
Stephen. B. Potter, David A. H. Buckley, S. Scaringi +13
We report on optical follow-up observations of an X-ray source initially detected by the Einstein Probe mission. Our investigations categorize the source as an intermediate polar,…