Astrophysical Polarimetry in the Time-Domain Era

Polarimetry with small and medium-size telescopes

Not scheduled

20m

Politecnico di Milano - Polo territoriale di Lecco

Poster only Poster Session

Speaker

Prof. Agnieszka Słowikowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)

Description

In my talk, I will briefly present the results of polarimetric studies
of various types of astronomical objects with small and medium-size
telescopes, i.e. pulsars, pulsar wind nebula, white dwarfs and high
mass X-ray binaries with Be stars as well as multiband polarimetry of
Kepler filed stars. I will describe several different polarimeters, to
name a few: the high-time resolution photopolarimeter OPTIMA, a
fast-readout optical imaging multiwavelength polarimeter RINGO3
mounted on the 2-m fully robotic Liverpool Telescope, located at the
Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma and the double
Wollaston RoboPOL polarimeter mounted on the 1.3-m telescope at the
Skinakas Observatory, as well as the double-wedged Wollaston-type
polarimeter on the 1.5-m RTT150 telescope at the TÜBİTAK National
Observatory. Last but not least, I will describe our recent results
obtained with the Polish2 polarimeter at the 3-m Shane telescope. I
will also show and discuss polarization standard stars, including
their high-accuracy measurements with the Polish2 polarimeter.