SOUTH POL: Revealing the Polarized Southern Sky

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2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3639v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

To appear in "Stellar Polarimetry: from Birth to Death", Madison, WI, AIP Conf. Proc., 2012 (J. Hoffman, B. Whitney & J. Bjork

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SOUTH POL will be a survey of the Southern sky in optical polarized light. It will use a newly designed polarimetric module at an 80cm Robotic Telescope. Telescope and polarimeter will be installed at CTIO, Chile, in late 2012. The initial goal is to cover the sky south of declination -15{\deg} in two years of observing time, aiming at a polarimetric accuracy \lesssim 0.1% down to V=15, with a camera covering a field of about 2.0 square degrees. SOUTH POL will impact areas such as Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy, Interstellar Medium of the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds, Star Formation, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar explosions and Solar System, among others.

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