Current Status of MMT Polarimeter (MMTPol)

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Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21715718k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #157.18; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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Optics

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We present a progress report for MMTPol, an imaging polarimeter operating at 1-5 microns on the MMT telescope. MMTPol will work in conjunction with the adaptive optics secondary to produce images with high spatial resolution and polarimetric precision, making it ideal to observe phenomena such as protoplanetary disks, AGN and comets. We discuss the design and construction of the optics and cryogenics systems. We present results from the initial installation of the science grade detector array. Finally, we discuss the hexapod mount used to integrate MMTPol with the telescope.

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