A submillimetre imaging polarimeter at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Jane Sophia Greaves; WS Holland; T Jenness; A Chrysostomou; DS Berry; AG Murray; M Tamura; EI Robson; PAR Ade; R Nartallo; JA Stevens; M Momose; J-I Morino; G Moriarty-Schieven

A submillimetre imaging polarimeter at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Jane Sophia Greaves, WS Holland, T Jenness, A Chrysostomou, DS Berry, AG Murray, M Tamura, EI Robson, PAR Ade, R Nartallo, JA Stevens, M Momose, J-I Morino, G Moriarty-Schieven

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Abstract

A polarimeter has been built for use with the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA), on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. SCUBA is the first of a new generation of highly sensitive submillimetre cameras, and the UK/Japan Polarimeter adds a polarimetric imaging/photometry capability in the wavelength range 350 to 2000 mum. Early science results range from measuring the synchrotron polarization of the black hole candidate Sgr A* to mapping magnetic fields inferred from polarized dust emission in Galactic star-forming clouds. We describe the instrument design, performance, observing techniques and data reduction processes, along with an assessment of the current and future scientific capability.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	353-361
Number of pages	9
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	340
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2003

Keywords

instrumentation : polarimeters
techniques : polarimetric
magnetic fields
polarization
submillimetre
FORMING MOLECULAR CLOUDS
FAR-INFRARED POLARIMETRY
MAGNETIC-FIELD STRUCTURE
DATA REDUCTION PIPELINE
SCUBA DATA
STAR-FORMATION
GALACTIC-CENTER
DUST EMISSION
BLACK-HOLE
POLARIZATION

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