A Submillimetre Imaging Polarimeter at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Details A Submillimetre Imaging Polarimeter at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope A Submillimetre Imaging Polarimeter at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

2003-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302609v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 340 (2003) 353

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06230.x

A polarimeter has been built for use with the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA), on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. SCUBA is the first of a new generation of highly sensitive submillimetre cameras, and the UK/Japan Polarimeter adds a polarimetric imaging/photometry capability in the wavelength range 350 to 2000 microns. Early science results range from measuring the synchrotron polarization of the black hole candidate Sgr A* to mapping magnetic fields inferred from polarized dust emission in Galactic star-forming clouds. We describe the instrument design, performance, observing techniques and data reduction processes, along with an assessment of the current and future scientific capability.

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