Beginning of operation on APEX of the polarimeter for the Large APEX Bolometer Camera (LABOCA)
- Autor(en)
- Giorgio Siringo, Ernst Kreysa, Attila Kovács, Karl M. Menten, Jan Forbrich
- Abstrakt
An enhanced version of the "Polarimeter für bolometer Kameras"(PolKa) has been installed on the APEX telescope (Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment) in October 2009, to work in combination with LABOCA (the Large APEX Bolometer Camera). This polarimeter was included in the design of LABOCA's optics from the beginning and it is now going through a commissioning phase. Preliminary tests on sky have confirmed that the combination of PolKa, LABOCA and APEX provides unprecedented capabilities in mapping the polarization of the continuum emission at sub millimeter wavelengths.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- European Southern Observatory (Germany), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Journal
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Band
- 7741
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 9
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856940
- Publikationsdatum
- 07-2010
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103003 Astronomie
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0adf3800-a96d-42b3-8f13-596bd9573fd3