POL-2: A polarimeter for the James-Clerk-Maxwell telescope

Friberg, P, Bastien, P, Berry, D, Savini, G, Graves, S.F and Pattle, Katherine M orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8557-3582 (2016) POL-2: A polarimeter for the James-Clerk-Maxwell telescope. In: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 28 June - 1 July 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. (Unpublished)

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231943

Abstract

The POL-2 polarimeter for the SCUBA-2 10 000 pixel Terahertz camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in it's late state of commissioning. Proposals have been accepted for POL-2 and general observing will start in August 2016. SCUBA-2 has a field of view of 43 arcmin at both of the 850 and 450 μm focal planes. POL-2 will map the sky in the the 850 μm band. The POL-2 polarimeter utilizes three optical components: a half wave plate and two wire-grid polarizers used as calibrator and analyzer covering the full field of SCUBA-2. We describe the instrument, data acquisition and features/artifacts that have been encountered during the commissioning.


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