AA/2018/33797 Polarization of quasars (Hutsemekers+, 2018) ================================================================================ Optical linear polarization measurements of quasars obtained with the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory Hutsemekers D., Borguet B., Sluse D., Pelgrims V. =2018A&A...000..000H ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: QSOs ; Polarization Keywords: quasars general - polarization Description: This Table contains optical linear polarization measurements of 86 quasars obtained in May 2008, October 2008, and from April to July 2015 with the Focal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrographs FORS1 and FORS2 attached to the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe_CDS 80 . This file table3.txt 135 87 Polarization data -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+A/332/410 : Quasar polarization (Hutsemekers 1998) J/A+A/340/371 : Quasar polarization (Hutsemekers+ 1998) J/A+AS/142/451 : Polarization of 47 quasi-stellar objects (Lamy+ 2000) J/A+A/433/757 : Optical polarization of 203 QSOs (Sluse+, 2005) J/A+A/606/A101 : Polarization of quasars (Hutsemekers+ 2017) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 29 A29 --- Name Object name (NED) 32- 33 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) 35- 36 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) 38- 42 F5.2 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) 44 A1 --- DE- Declination sign 45- 46 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 48- 49 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 51- 54 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 58- 65 F8.6 --- z Redshift 69- 69 I1 --- Filter Filter 73- 82 A10 --- Date Date of observation (YYYY-MM-DD) 85- 90 F6.2 % q Normalized Stokes parameter (NSP) q 93- 98 F6.2 % u Normalized Stokes parameter (NSP) u 102-106 F5.2 % Pol Polarization degree 111-114 F4.2 % e_Pol Uncertainty of polarization degree 118-122 F5.2 % p0 Debiased polarization degree 127-129 I3 deg PA Polarization position angle (PA) 133-135 I3 deg e_PA Uncertainty of PA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Damien Hutsemekers, d.hutsemekers(at)uliege.be ================================================================================ (End)