29 May 2023 Differential speckle polarimetry with SCExAO VAMPIRES
Boris Safonov, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Manxuan Zhang, Barnaby R. Norris, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi, Steph Sallum
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Abstract

The differential polarization visibilities RQ and RU of an object are the ratios of its visibilities corresponding to orthogonal polarizations, the interferometric analogs to Stokes Q and U intensity images. The measurement of differential polarization visibilitites can be used for constraining inner parts of circumstellar envelopes of young or evolved stars at the diffraction limited resolution of the feeding telescope. We demonstrate the estimation of both amplitude and phase of RQ and RU from data obtained using SCExAO VAMPIRES through the full pupil of the 8-m Subaru telescope using the differential speckle polarimetry technique. The correction for biases arising due to instrumental polarization effects is discussed. The accuracy of RQ and RU measurement with VAMPIRES is limited by imperfect knowledge of instrumental polarization and amounts to 5 × 10 − 3.

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Boris Safonov, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Manxuan Zhang, Barnaby R. Norris, Olivier Guyon, Julien Lozi, and Steph Sallum "Differential speckle polarimetry with SCExAO VAMPIRES," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 9(2), 028005 (29 May 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.2.028005
Received: 3 March 2023; Accepted: 8 May 2023; Published: 29 May 2023
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KEYWORDS
Polarization

Polarimetry

Digital signal processing

Modulation

Speckle

Telescopes

Equipment

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