[en] A new polarimeter based on the Wedged double Wollaston concept has been built at the Torino Observatory and installed on a 1-meter telescope at the Calern observing station of the "Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur". Its main purpose is to carry out a polarimetric survey of Solar System objects. This survey is called CAPS (Calern Asteroid Polarimetric Survey). In this paper, the new Torino polarimeter (ToPo) and its preliminary validation campaign is described. The first results of the CAPS survey are also presented. A number of standard stars with known polarization states, as well as a number of asteroids for which the polarimetric properties are known, have been observed in order to assess the instrument accuracy. The instrument response over the field of view and also its stability over single nights and longer periods have also been tested.
It has been found that the instrument polarization is stable within a few $10^{-4}$ units. The first polarimetric observations of a still limited number of asteroids show an excellent agreement with previously available data and make already some significant contributions by adding new data to a number of objects that had been poorly observed so far.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Devogele, Maxime ; Université de Liège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astroph. extragalactique et observations spatiales (AEOS)
Cellino, Alberto
Bagnulo, Stefano
Rivet, Jean-Pierre
Bendjoya, Philippe
Abe, Lyu
Pernechele, Claudio
Massone, Guiseppe
Vernet, David
Tanga, Paolo
Dimur, Cecille
Language :
English
Title :
The Calern Asteroid Polarimetric Survey using the Torino Polarimeter: assessment of instrument performances and first scientific results
Alternative titles :
[en] Le survey polarimetric de Calern utilisant le polarimètre Torino : évaluation des performances de l'instrument et premiers résultats
Bagnulo S., Boehnhardt H., Muinonen K., Kolokolova L., Belskaya I., Barucci M. A., 2006, A&A, 450, 1239
Bagnulo S., Belskaya I., Boehnhardt H., Kolokolova L., Muinonen K., Sterzik M., Tozzi G.-P., 2011, J. Quant. Spectros. Radiat. Trans., 112, 2059
Bagnulo S., Cellino A., Sterzik M. F., 2015, MNRAS, 446, L11
Bailey J., Hough J., 1982, PASP, 94, 618
Bastien P., Drissen L., Menard F., Moffat A. F. J., Robert C., St-Louis N., 1988, AJ, 95, 900
Bastien P., Vernet E., Drissen L., Menard F., Moffat A. F. J., Robert C., St-Louis N., 2007, ASP Conf. Series Vol. 364, The Future of Photometric, Spectrophotometric and Polarimetric Standardization. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco, p. 529
Belskaya I. N. et al., 2005, Icarus, 178, 213
Belskaya I. N., Cellino A., Gil-Hutton R., Muinonen K., Shkuratov Y., 2015, in Michel P., DeMeo F., BottkeW. F., eds, Asteroids IV. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, p. 151
Bus S., Binzel R. P., 2002, Icarus, 158, 146
Cellino A., Belskaya I. N., Bendjoya Ph., di Martino M., Gil-Hutton R., Muinonen K., Tedesco E. F., 2006, Icarus, 180, 565
Cellino A., Bagnulo S., Tanga P., Novaković B., Delbò M., 2014, MNRAS, 439, L75
Cellino A., Gil-Hutton R., Belskaya I. N., 2015a, in Kolokolova L., Hough J., Levasseur-Regourd A.-C., eds, Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, p. 360
Cellino A., Bagnulo S., Gil-Hutton R., Tanga P., Cañada-Assandri M., Tedesco E. F., 2015b, MNRAS, 451, 3473
Cellino A., Bagnulo S., Gil-Hutton R., Tanga P., Cañada-Assandri M., Tedesco E. F., 2016, MNRAS, 455, 2091
Clemens D., Tapia S., 1990, PASP, 102, 179
Devogèle M. et al., 2015, European Planetary Science Congress 2015, EPSC2015-469
Dollfus A., WolffM., Geake J. E., Lupishko D. F., Dougherty L., 1989, in Binzel R. P., Gehrels T., Matthews M. S., eds, Asteroids II. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, p. 594
Fornasier S., Belskaya I. N., Shkuratov Yu. G., Pernechele C., Barbieri C., Giro E., Navasardyan H., 2006, A&A, 455, 371
Fornasier S., Belskaya I. N., Perna D., 2015, Icarus, 250, 280
Gehrels T., 1974, Planets, Stars and Nebulae Studied with Photopolarimetry. University of Arizona Press, Tuscon
Gil Hutton R., Cellino A., Bendjoya Ph., 2014, A&A, 569, A122
Gradie J., Tedesco E. F., 1982, Science, 216, 1405
Hiltner W. A., 1951, AJ, 114, 241
Hsu J.-C., Breger M., 1982, ApJ, 262, 732
International Astronomical Union, 1973, Transactions of the IAU, 15B, 166
Lumme K., Rahola J., 1998, J. Quant. Spectros. Radiat. Trans., 60 439
Masiero J. et al., 2011, ApJ, 741, 68
Merline W. et al., 1999, Nature, 401, 565
Milani A., Cellino A., Knežević Z., Novaković B., Spoto F., Paolicchi P., 2014, Icarus, 239, 46
Muinonen K., Piironen J., Shkuratov Y. G., Ovcharenko A. A., Clark B. E., 2002, in Bottke W. F. Jr, Cellino A., Paolicchi P., Binzel R. P., eds, Asteroids III. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, p. 123
Muinonen K., Penttilä A., Cellino A., Belskaya I. N., Delbò M., Levasseur-Regourd A. C., Tedesco E. F., 2009, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci., 44, 1937
Novaković B., Cellino A., Knežević Z., 2011, Icarus, 216, 69
Oliva E., 1997, A&ASS, 123, 589
Pernechele C., Abe L., Bendjoya Ph., Cellino A., Massone G., Tanga P., 2012, Proc. SPIE, 8446, 84462
Petrova E. V., Tishkovets V. P., Jockers K., 2004, Solar System Research, 38, 354
Schmidt G., Elston R., Lupie O. L., 1992, AJ, 104, 1563
Schulz A., Lenzen R., 1983, A&A, 121, 158
Shevchenko V. G., Tedesco E. F., 2006, Icarus, 184, 211
Shkuratov Yu. G. et al., 1994, Earth, Moon, and Planets, 65, 201
Shkuratov Yu. G. et al., 2002, Icarus, 159, 396
ShurcliffW. A., 1962, Polarized Light. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Sunshine J., Connolly H. C., Mc Coy, Bus S. J., La Croix L. M., 2008, Science, 320, 514
Tedesco E. F., Noah P. V., Noah M., Price S. D., 2002, AJ, 123, 1056
Tholen D. J., 1984, PhD Thesis, University of Arizona
Turnshek D. A., Bohlin R. C., Williamson R. L. II, Lupie O. L., Koornneef J., Morgan D. H., 1990, AJ, 99, 1243
WolffM., Nordsieck K., Nook M., 1996, AJ, 111, 856
Zellner B., Gradie J., 1976, AJ, 81, 262
Similar publications
Sorry the service is unavailable at the moment. Please try again later.
This website uses cookies to improve user experience. Read more
Save & Close
Accept all
Decline all
Show detailsHide details
Cookie declaration
About cookies
Strictly necessary
Performance
Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.
This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly.
Performance cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
Used to store the attribution information, the referrer initially used to visit the website
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Websites use cookies to help users navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. Cookies that are required for the website to operate properly are allowed to be set without your permission. All other cookies need to be approved before they can be set in the browser.
You can change your consent to cookie usage at any time on our Privacy Policy page.
