ZIMPOL/CHEOPS (Zurich Imaging Polarimeter) is a polarimetric imager being developed for the Very Large Telescope for the direct detection of extra-solar planets.1 The imager is operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.12
It is also the imaging polarimeter subsystem of the VLT-SPHERE instrument.3
The Zurich Imaging Polarimeter (ZIMPOL) provides diffraction limited classical imaging and differential polarimetric imaging (DPI) at 15 mas (milliarcsecond) resolution in the visible spectrum4 and is one of three scientific subsystem integrated into the VLT-SPHERE instrument used at VLT's Unit Telescope 3, Melipal.
CHEOPS is an acronym for CHaracterizing Exo-planets by Opto-infrared Polarimetry and Spectroscopy.5
See also
See also
References
References
- Schmid, H. M.; Gisler, D.; Joos, F.; Povel, H. P.; Stenflo, J. O.; Feldt, M.; et al. (2005-12-01) [15–19 March 2004]. A. Adamson; C. Aspin; C. J. Davis; T. Fujiyoshi (eds.). "ZIMPOL/CHEOPS: a Polarimetric Imager for the Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets". Astronomical Polarimetry: Current Status and Future Directions ASP Conference Series, Conference Proceedings. 343. Waikoloa, Hawai'i, USA: 89. Bibcode:2005ASPC..343...89S.
- "ZIMPOL - The Zurich IMaging POLarimeter". Retrieved 2012-01-21.
- The ZIMPOL high contrast imaging polarimeter for SPHERE: system test results. (PDF) Ronald Roelfsema, Andreas Bazzon, Hans Martin Schmid, Johan Pragt, Daniel Gisler, Carsten Dominik, Andrea Baruffolo, Jean-Luc Beuzit, Anne Costille, Kjetil Dohlen, Mark Downing, Eddy Elswijk, Menno de Haan, Norbert Hubin, Markus Kasper, Christoph Keller, Jean-Louis Lizonf, David Mouillet, Alexey Pavlov, Pascal Puget, Bernardo Salasnich, Jean-Francois Sauvage, Francois Wildik. 2014.
- "SPHERE Exposure Time Calculator – Instrument description". 26 February 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- "CHaracterizing Extrasolar planets by Opto-infrared Polarimetry and Spectroscopy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2012-01-21.