Hale, a multi-wavelength, far-infrared polarimeter for SOFIA

C. D. Dowell; J. A. Davidson; J. L. Dotson; R. H. Hildebrand; G. Novak; T. S. Rennick; J. E. Vaillancourt

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Hale, a multi-wavelength, far-infrared polarimeter for SOFIA

C. D. Dowell^*, J. A. Davidson, J. L. Dotson, R. H. Hildebrand, G. Novak, T. S. Rennick, J. E. Vaillancourt

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A far-infrared polarimeter, Hale, will be proposed for the next round of instruments for SOFIA. Key features are: simultaneous detection of two components of polarization; detector arrays providing > 4000 pixels on the sky; and four passbands between 53 μm and 215 μm, a range characterized by strong dependence of polarization on wavelength. At 53 μm the diffraction-limited resolution, 1.2 λ/D, will be 5.2 arcsec. In all passbands the systematic errors in polarization will be ΔP < 0.2%, Δθ < 2°.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	250-259
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4843
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458645
State	Published - 2002
Event	Polarimetry in Astronomy - Waikoloa, HI, United States Duration: Aug 25 2002 → Aug 28 2002

Keywords

Bolometers
Far-infrared
Instrumentation
Magnetic fields
Polarimetry
SOFIA

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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