Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-x4r87 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T20:25:00.541Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Observing Hot Stars in all Four Stokes Parameters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Thomas Eversberg
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Canada
Anthony F.J. Moffat
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Canada
Michael Debruyne
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, Canada
John B. Rice
Affiliation:
Brandon University, Canada
Nikolai Piskunov
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, Canada Uppsala University, Sweden
Pierre Bastien
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Canada
William H. Wehlau
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Olivier Chesneau
Affiliation:
Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We introduce a new polarimeter unit which, mounted at the Cassegrain focus of any telescope and fiber-connected to a fixed CCD spectrograph, is able to measure all Stokes parameters I, Q, U and V photon-noise limited across spectral lines of bright stellar targets and other point sources in a quasi-simultaneous manner. We briefly outline the technical design of the polarimeter unit and the linear algebraic Mueller calculus for obtaining polarization parameters of any point source. In addition, practical limitations of the optical elements are discussed. We present first results obtained with our spectropolarimeter for three prototype hot-star.

Type
Section I Observations of Non-spherical Winds
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1999