3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Large Interstellar Polarisation Survey. III. Observational constraints on the structure of grains
Ralf Siebenmorgen, Stefano Bagnulo, Lapo Fanciullo +2
Dust in the diffuse interstellar medium remains incompletely understood with regard to the structure, composition, size distribution, and alignment properties of the grains. Joint…
astro-ph.IM2026
Machine Learning Assisted NEO Discovery and Polarimetric Characterisation with Astronomical Surveys
G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, T. Grobler, S. J. Chong +12
We are a group of over two dozen astronomers, computer scientists, data scientists and digital Big Data research platform experts at 11 universities and research institutes in Sout…
astro-ph.IM2025
VSTPOL: making the VST a large survey telescope for optical polarimetry
P. Schipani, S. Covino, F. Snik +30
Since the start of operations in 2011, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has been one of the most efficient wide-field imagers in the optical bands. However, in the next years the Ver…