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most citedThe WALOP-North Instrument I: Optical Design, Filter Design, Calibration

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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.IM2026

WALOP-South: a four camera one shot imaging polarimeter for the PASIPHAE survey. Paper III -- PSF modelling

Indrajit Paul, Kishan Deka, Tuhin Ghosh +22

The two WALOP instruments, built for the PASIPHAE survey, will measure the linear polarization of large numbers of stars in the Galactic polar regions in the SDSS- band. They ar…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evidence for cloud-to-cloud variations in the ratio of polarized thermal dust emission to starlight polarization

Nidhi Mehandiratta, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Eirik Gjerløw +12

The correlation between optical starlight polarization and polarized thermal dust emission can be used to infer intrinsic dust properties. This correlation is quantified by the rat…

astro-ph.IM2025

Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter Control Software

John A. Kypriotakis, Bhushan Joshi, Dmitry Blinov +19

The WALOPControl software is designed to facilitate comprehensive control and operation of the WALOP (Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter) polarimeters, ensuring safe and concurre…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The WALOP-North Instrument I: Optical Design, Filter Design, Calibration

John A. Kypriotakis, Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche +18

The Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter North (WALOP-North) is an optical polarimeter designed for the needs of the PASIPHAE survey. It will be installed on the 1.3m telescope at…

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…