The Hubble Space Telescope Northern-Hemisphere grid of stellar polarimetric standards

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Oct 1992

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 104, no. 4, p. 1563-1567.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Polarimetry, Hubble Space Telescope, Northern Hemisphere, Stellar Radiation, Calibrating, Instrument Errors, Spaceborne Astronomy

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Results are presented from a comprehensive program of optical polarimetry of strongly polarized and null-polarization standard stars. Potential sources of systematic error either instrumental in origin or due to absolute calibration are critically discussed. Although the project emphasized the requirements of a spaceborne optical-UV observatory (HST), the resulting grid of standards represents a distinct improvement over previous such tabulations and offers an opportunity to reference future multiwavelength polarimetry to a common system.

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