Polarization of Comet Arend-Roland

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Dec 1957

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1957natur.180.1410b&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 180, Issue 4599, pp. 1410 (1957).

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WHEN, last May, Comet Arend-Roland became a bright naked-eye object in the northern hemisphere, we carried out a series of photoelectric measures of the polarization of its coma at different phase angles. The technique employed utilized a piece of `Polaroid' attached to a rotatable six-position disk contained in the photometer. This enables measurements of intensity to be made as the `Polaroid' is turned through 60 dog. for each position of the disk. Standard B and V filters employed in the UBV system, together with interference filters having peak transmissions centred on 5890 A., 5000 A., 4700 A. and 4300 A. and half-widths of 80 A. were used for isolating the different wave-lengths. Each of the three circular apertures behind the `Polaroid' transmitted 3.7 square minutes of arc of the sky.

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