The Kodaikanal solar vector magnetograph - Laboratory evaluation of the polarimeter
Abstract
Laboratory experiments performance to evaluate the sensitivity of the polarimeter of the Kodaikanal vector magnetograph. The polarimeter does not produce significant cross talk and has a sensitivity of about 1 percent polarization.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
- Pub Date:
- September 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991BASI...19..243V
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Polarimetry;
- Crosstalk;
- Polarimeters;
- Solar Instruments;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Linear Polarization;
- Magnetic Signatures;
- Photosphere;
- Instrumentation and Photography