Literature relating to polarimetry and spectropolarimetry

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High Resolution Line Spectropolarimetry
  • Instruments
  • Modelling
  • Line Spectropolarimetry - Observations
  • Imaging / Aperture Polarimetry &  Spectropolarimetry

    • Telescope Polarization Calibration
  • Polarimetric Calibration
  • Telescope Polarization Calibration
  • Sky Polarization

    • Comet Polarimetry/Spectropolarimetry
  • Dust Comae Polarization - Theory
  • Dust Comae Polarization - Observations
  • Light Scattering Code/Theory


    • Instruments




    1995  R.W. Goodrich,  M.H. Cohen  and A. Putney
    Spectropolarimetry II - circular polarization optics and techniques.
    PASP 107,  179-183

    1997  E. Oliva et al.
    Optical materials for near infrared Wollaston prisms
    A&A Sup.  123  179-182

    1998  T. Eversberg et al.
    The William-Wehlau spectropolarimeter: observing hot stars in all four Stokes parameters.
    PASP  110  1356-1369

    1999  J.-F. Donati,  C. Catala,  G.A. Wade,  G. Gallou,  G. Delaigue  and P. Rabou
    A dedicated polarimeter for the MuSiCoS echelle spectrograph.
    A&A Supp.  134,  149-159

    1999  K.S. Kawabata  et al.
    A new spectropolarimeter at the Dodaira observatory.
    PASP 111,  898-908

    2001  D.K. Aitken and J.H. Hough
    Spectral modulation, or ripple, in retardation plates for linear and circular polarization.
    PASP  113,  1300-1305

    2002  F.M. Zerbi  et al.
    A new concept and preliminary design for a high resolution and very-high resolution
    spectrograph for the LBT
    Astron Nachr  323   499-509

    2002  D.K. Aitken,  A. Efstathiou,  A. McCall  and J.H. Hough
    Magnetic fields in disks: what can be learned from infrared and mm polarimetry?
    MNRAS  329,  647-669

    2002  A. Hofmann   K.G. Strassmeier  and M. Woche
    Design study of the PEPSI polarimeter for the LBT.
    Astron. Nachr  323   510-519

    2002  R. Pallavicini
    High-resolution ground-based spectroscopy: where and how?
    Astron. Nachr  323   288-293

    2003  P. Chakraborty and R. Vasundhara
    An optical, dual-beam, automated medium resolution spectropolarimeter
    for the Vainu Bappu telescope.
    Experimental Astr.  16   69-84

    2003  R.W. Goodrich and M.H. Cohen
    The LRIS imaging spectropolarimeer at the W.M. Keck Observatory
    Proc SPIE  4843  146-156

    2003  E. Giro et al.
    Polarization properties at the Nasmyth focus of the alt-azimuth TNG telescope.
    Proc SPIE 4843   456-465

    2003  J. H. Hough  and D.K. Aitken
    Polarimetry deveopments at the Gemini telescopes.
    Proc SPIE  4843  200-212

    2003  P. Petit,  J.-F. Donati,  and ESPaDOnS project team
    Stellar polarimetry with ESPaDOns.
    EAS Pub. Series  9    97P

    2004  D. Wang,  Y. Deng,  W. Cao
    Near Infrared Waveplate
    Proc SPIE  5492  1786-1795

    2004  P. Spano  et al.
    Optical design of CAOS: a high-resolution spectropolarimeter for the Catania
    Astrophysical Observatory 0.91m telescope.
    Proc SPIE  5492  373-382

    2004  T. Rimmele et al.
    Instrumentation for the ATST
    Proc SPIE 5492   944-957

    2005  D. Clarke
    Effects in polarimetry of interference within waveplates.
    A&A  434,  377-384




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    Modelling

    Older / Preliminary Analytic Theories, Solutions, Models



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    1977  J.C. Brown, I.S. McLean
    Polarisation by Thomson scattering in optically thin stellar envelopes I - source star at center of
    axisymmetric envelope.
    A&A  57,  141-149

    1978  J.C. Brown, I.S. McLean and A.G. Emslie
    Polarisation by Thomson scattering in optically thin stellar envelopes II - binary and multiple
    star envelopes and the determination of binary inclinations.
    A&A  68,  415-427

    1978  I.S. McLean and J.C. Brown
    Polarisation by Thomson scattering in optically thin stellar envelopes III - a statistical study of the
    oblateness and rotation of Be star envelopes.
    A&A  69,  291-296

    1979  I.L. McLean
    Separation of the intrinsic and interstellar linear polarization components of
    southern hemisphere early-type emission-line stars.
    MNRAS  186,  245-263

    1979  I.L McLean
    Interpretation of the intrinsic polarizations of early-type emission-line stars.
    MNRAS  186,  265-285

    1979  R. Poeckert  and J.M. Marlborough
    The effects of electron scattering on Balmer emission lines in Be stars.
    ApJ  233  259-266

    1987  K.H. Nordsieck and M.A. Murison
    Polarization of light scattered from the winds of early-type stars.
    ApJ  317,  290-302

    1989  J.C. Brown, V.A. Carlaw and J.P. Cassinelli
    Finite source depolarization factors for circumstellar scattering
    ApJ  344,  341-349


    Winds, Envelopes, Jets

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    1979  R. Poeckert and J.M. Marlborough
    The effects of electron scattering on balmer emission lines in Be stars.
    ApJ  233,  259-266

    1990  D.J. Hiller
    An iterative method for the solution of the statistical and radiative equilibrium equations in
    expanding atmospheres.
    A&A  231,  116-124

    1991  D.J. Hiller
    The effects of electron scattering and wind clumping for early emission line stars.
    A&A  247,  455-468

    1994  W.J. Henney
    Polarization profiles of scattered emission lines I - general formalism for optically thin Rayleigh scattering.
    ApJ  427,  288-304

    1994  W.J. Henney, A.C. Raga, and D.J. Axon
    Polarization profiles of scattered emission lines II - upstream dust scattering in the HH 1 jet.
    ApJ  427,  305-314

    1994  D.J. Hiller
    The calculation of continuum polarization due to the Rayleigh scattering phase matrix in
    multi-scattering axisymmetric envelopes.
    A&A  289,  492-504

    1994  K. Wood and J.C. Brown
    Effect of electron thermal motions on Thomson scattered line profiles from hot circumstellar envelopes.
    A&A  291,  202-208

    1995  W.J. Henney and D.J. Axon
    Polarization profiles of scattered emission lines III - effects of multiple scattering and
    non-Rayleigh phase functions.
    ApJ  454,  233-253

    1996  D.J. Hiller
    The calculation of line polarization due to scattering by electrons in multi-scatterin axisymmetirc envelopes.
    A&A  308,  521-534

    1996  K. Wood et al.
    The effect of multiple scattering on the polarization from axisymmetric circumstellar envelopes I -
    pure Thomson scattering envelopes.
    ApJ  461  828-846

    1996  K. Wood et al.
    The effect of multiple scattering on the polarization from axisymmetric circumstellar envelopes II -
    Thomson scattering in the presence of absorptive opacity sources.
    ApJ  461  847-857

    1997  K. Wood,  K.S. Bjorkman,  and J.E. Bjorkman
    Deriving the geometry of Be star circumstellar envelopes from continuum spectropolarimetry I -
    The case of Xi Tauri.
    ApJ  477  926-939

    2000  T.J. Harries
    Synthetic line profiles of rotationally distorted hot-star winds.
    MNRAS  315, 722-734

     

    Circumstellar Disks


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    1988  P. Bastien and F. Menard
    On the interpretation of polarization maps of young stellar objects.
    AJ  326,  334-338

    1993  K. Wood, J.C. Brown and G.K. Fox
    Polarimetric line profiles from optically thin Thomson scattering circumstellar envelopes.
    A&A  271, 492-500

    2005  J.S. Vink,  T.J. Harries and J.E. Drew
    Polarimetric line profiles for scattering off rotating disks.
    A&A  430,  213-222


    Binaries and Simbiotic Binaries

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    1995  H.M. Schmid
    Monte-Carlo simulations of the Rayleigh scattering effects in symbiotic stars.
    MNRAS 275,  227-243

    1997  T.J. Harries and I.D. Howarth
    Raman scattering in symbiotic stars II - numerical models.
    A&A Supplement  121, 15-44

    1997  H.-W. Lee and K.W. Lee
    On the profiles and the polarization of Raman-scattered emission lines in symbiotic stars.
    MNRAS  287, 211-220

    2003  J.L. Hoffman,  B.A. Whitney,  and K.H. Nordsieck
    The effect of multiple scattering on the polarization from binary star envelopes I -
    self and externally illuminated disks.
    ApJ  598  572-587

    Magnetic Fields, Star-spots

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    2002  S.V. Berdyugina and S.K. Solanki
    The molecular Zeeman effect and diagnostics of solar and stellar magnetic fields I -
    theoretical spetral patterns in the Zeeman regime.
    A&A  385, 701-715

    2003  S.V. Berdyugina,  S.K., Solanki, C.Frutiger
    The molecular Zeeman effect and diagnostics of solar and stellar magnetic fields II -
    synthetic stokes profiles in the Zeeman regime.
    A&A  412, 513-527

    2005  S.V. Berdyugina,  P.A. Braun, D.M. Fluri, and S.K. Solanki
    The molecular Zeeman effect and diagnostics of solar and stellar magnetic fields III -
    theoretical spectral patterns in the Paschen-Bach regime.
    A&A 444, 947-960


    Line Spectropolarimetry - Observations

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    1996  T.J. Harries and I.D. Howarth
    Raman scattering in symbiotic stars I - spectropolarimetric observations
    A&A Supp  119,  61-90

    1997  J.F. Donati,   M. Semel,   B.D. Carter,  D.E. Rees and A.C. Cameron
    Spectropolarimetric observations of active stars.
    MNRAS 291, 658-68

    1999  R.D. Oudmaijer  and  J.E. Drew
    H-alpha spectropolarimetry of B[e] and Herbig Be stars.
    MNRAS  305,  166-180

    2002  T.J. Harries,  I.D. Howarth and C.J. Evans
    Spectropolarimetry of O supergiants.
    MNRAS 337,  341-355

    2002  J.S. Vink,  J.E. Drew, T.J. Harries  and R.D. Oudmaijer
    Probing the circumstellar structure of Herbig Ae/Be stars.
    MNRAS  337,  356-368

    2005  R.D. Oudmaijer,  J.E. Drew, and J.S. Vink
    Near-infrared line spectropolarimetry of hot massive stars.
    MNRAS  364,  725-730

    2005  J.S. Vink,  J.E. Drew,  T.J. Harries, R.D Oudmaijer  and Y. Unruh
    Probing the circumstellar structures of T Tauri stars and their relationship to those of Herbig stars.
    MNRAS  359,  1049-1064


    Imaging / Aperture Polarimetry &  Spectropolarimetry - Observations

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    1976  R. Poeckert  and  J.M. Marlborough
    Intrinsic linear polarization of Be stars as a function of V sin i.
    ApJ  206  182-195

    1992  F. Menard  and P. Bastien
    Linear polarization observations of TTauri stars II - a sample of objects fainter than 13th magnitude.
    AJ  103  564-572

    Polarization Calibration



    1982  J. Hsu  and  M. Berger
    On standard polarized stars.
    ApJ  262  732-738

    1986  J.F. Dolan and S. Tapia
    Wavelength dependence of position angle in polarization standards.
    PASP  98  792-802

    1988  P. Bastien et al.
    The variability of polarized standard stars.
    AJ  93, 900-911

    1990  D.A. Turnsheck et al. 
    An atlas of the Hubble Space Telescope photometric, spectrophotometric, and polarimetric calibration objects.
    AJ  90,  1243-1377

    1992  G.D. Schmidt,  R. Elston,  and  O.L. Lupie
    The Hubble Space Telescope Northern-Hemisphere grid of polarimetric standards.
    AJ  104,  1563-1567

    1994  D. Clarke  and  J. Naghizadeh-Khouei
    A reassessment of some polarization standard stars.
    AJ  108  687-693

    1996  D.C.B. Whittet
    Continuum polarization of starlight.
    ASP. Conf. Proc.  97  125-142

    2003  R. Gil-Hutton  and P. Benavidez
    Southern stars that can be used as unpolarized standards.
    MNRAS  345   97-99

    2004  J.B. Breckinridge  and B.R. Oppenheimer
    Polarization effects in reflecting coronographs for white-light applications in astronomy.
    ApJ   600,  XX-XX

    2005 E. Mason et al.
    Polarimetric standard stars observed with FORS1 at ESO-VLT.
    ASP Conf. Proc. 343   85-86


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    Telescope Polarization

    2003  E. Giro et al.
    Polarization properties at the Naysmyth focus of the alt-azimuth TNG telescope.
    Proc. SPIE  4843  456-464

    2003  H.T. Tran
    Polarization comparison between on-axis and off-axis dual reflector telescopes: Zemax and Grasp8 simulations.
    New Astronomy Reviews  47  1091-1096

    2004  J. Kiyohara et al.
    Calibration of the instrumental polarization of the Domeless Solar Telescope at the Hida Observatory.
    Proc. SPIE  5492  1778-1785

    2005  C. Beck et al.
    Polarimetric Littrow Spectrograph - instrument calibration and first measurements.
    A&A  437   1159-1167

    2005  C. Beck et al.
    A polarization model for the German Vacuum Tower Telescope from in situ and laboratory measurements.
    A&A  443  1047-1053

    2006  D.M. Harrington,  J.R. Kuhn  and K. Whitman
    The new HiVIS spectropolarimeter and the spectropolarimetric calibration of the AEOS telescope.
    PASP  118  xx-xx

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    Sky Polarization - Scattered Sunlight

    1997  Y. Liu   and   K. Voss
    Polarized radiance distribution - measurement of skylight II - experiment and data.
    Applied Optics  36   8753-8765

    1997  K. Voss  and Y. Liu
    Polarized radiance distribution measurements of skylight I - system description and characterization.
    Applied Optics 36  6083-6095

    1997  J.A. North   and   M.J. Duggin
    Stokes vector imaging of the polarized sky dome.
    Applied Optics  36  723-731

    1998  R.L. Lee
    Digital imaging of clear-sky polarization.
    Applied Optics  37   1465-1477

    2001  J. Gal   G. Horvath  and  A. Barta
    Polarization of the moonlit clear night sky measured by full-sky imaging polarimetry at full Moon.
    JGR  106  22647-22653

    2001  J. Gal  G. Horvath   V.B. Meyer-Rochow  and R. Whener
    Polarization patterns of the summer sky and its neutral points measured by full-sky imaging polarimetry.
    Proc. R. Soc. London  457  1385-1399

    2001  I. Pomozi  G. Horvath  and R. Wehner
    How the clear-sky angle of polarization pattern continues underneath clouds: full-sky
    measurements and implications for animal orientation.
    J. Experimental Biology  204  2933-2942

    2002  G. Horvath  B. Bernath  B. Suhai  A. Barta
    First observation of the fourth neutral polarization point in the atmosphere.
    JOSA  19  2085-2099

    2002  G. Horvath  et al.
    Ground-based full-sky imaging polarimetry of rapidly changing skies and its use for
    polarimetric cloud detection.
    Applied Optics  41  543-560

    2003  G. Horvath   I. Pomozi  and J. Gal
    Neutral points of skylight polarization observed during the total eclipse on 11 Aug.  1999.
    Applied Optics  42  465-476

    2004  R. Wehner
    Polarization vision - a uniform sensory capacity?
    J. Experimental Biology  204   2589-2596

    2004  B. Suhai  and G. Horvath
    How well does the Rayleigh model describe the E-vector distribution of skylight in clear and
    cloudy conditions?  A full-sky polarimetric study.
    JOSA A   21   1669-1677

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    Cometary Comae Polarimetry / Spectropolarimetry - Theory

    1997  L. Kolokolova  K. Jockers
    Composition of cometary dust from polarization spectra.
    Planet. Space Sci.  45   1543-1550

    2001  L. Kolokolova   K. Jockers   B.A.  Gustafson   and  G. Lichtenberg
    Color and polarization as indicators of comet dust properties and evolution of the near-nucleus coma.
    J. Geophys. Res.   106     10113-10127

    2003  H. Kimura   L. Kolokolova  and  I. Mann
    Optical properties of cometary dust - constraints from numerical studies on light scattering by
    aggregate particles.
    A&A  407   L5-L8

    2003  A.C. Levasseur-Regourd  and  E. Hadamcik
    Light scattering by irregular dust particles in the solar system: observations and
    interpretation by laboratory measurements.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Transf.

    2004  L. Kolokolova  M.S. Hanner   A-C.  Levasseur-Regourd   and  B.A.S. Gustafson
    Physical properties of cometary dust from light scattering and thermal emission.
    Comets II    University of Arizona Press   577-604

    2004  I. Mann   H. Kimura  and   L. Kolokolova
    A comprehensive model to describe light scattering properties of cometary dust.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Transf.   89    291-301

    2006  H. Kimura   L. Kolokolova   and I. Mann
    Light scattering by cometary dust numerically simulated with aggregate particles consisting of
    identical spheres.
    A&A  449   1243-1254

    2006  J. Lasue  and A.C. Levasseur-Regourd
    Porous irregular aggregates of sub-micron sized grains to reproduce cometary dust
    light scattering observations.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Transf.  100  220-236


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    Cometary Comae Polarimetry / Spectropolarimetry - Observations

    1997   E. Hadamcik  and   A.C. Levasseur-Regourd
    CCD polarimetric imaging of comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)
    Earth, Moon and Planets  78   365-371.

    1997  K. Jockers   V.K. Rosenbush   T. Bonev  and  T. Credner
    Images of polarization and colour in the inner coma of comet Hale-Bopp.
    Earth, Moon and Planets  78   373-379.

    1997  N.N. Kiselev  and F.P. Velichko
    Aperture polarimetry and photometry of comet Hale-Bopp.
    Earth, Moon and Planets  78   347-352.

    1997  K. Jockers
    Observations of scattered light from cometary dust and their interpretation.
    Earth, Moon and Planets   79   221-245.

    2000   N.N. Kiselev  et al
    Anomalous wavelength dependence of polarization of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner.
    Planet. Space Sci.   48    1005-1009

    2002   N. Kiselev  K. Jockers  and V. Rosenbush
    Comparative study of the dust polarimetric properties in split and normal comets.
    Earth, Moon and Planets  90   167-176.

    2003   E. Hadamcik  and A.-C.  Levasseur-Regourd
    Dust coma of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR):  imaging polarimetry during nucleus disruption.
    Icarus  166  188-194

    2003  E. Hadamcik  and A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd
    Dust evolution of comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)  by imaging polarimetric observations.
    A&A  403   757-768


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    Light Scattering by Particles/Aggregates Theory & Code



    2001   L. Kolokolova  and B.A.S. Gustafson
    Scattering by inhomogeneous particles: microwave analog experiments and comparison to
    effective medium theories.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.   70   611-625

    2004  H. Kimura
    Light-scattering properties of fractal aggregates: numerical calculations by a superposition
    technique and the discrete-dipole approximation
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.  89  581-594

    2004  M.A. Iatia  et al.
    Optical properties of interstellar grain aggregates.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.  89   43-51

    2004  K. Chamillard  and J-P.J. Lafon
    Statistical approach to the effects of roughness on the polarization of light scattered by dust grains.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.  89  519-528

    2004  M. Kohler  and I. Mann
    Light-scattering models applied to circumstellar dust properties.
    J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.  89  453-460

    2004  G. Wurm et al.
    Light scattering experiments with micron-sized dust aggregates: results on ensembles of SiO2
    monospheres and of irregularly shaped graphite particles.
    J. Quantative Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.  89   371-384

    2004  H. Kimura  and   I. Mann
    Light scattering by large clusters of dipoles as an analog for cometary dust aggregates.
    J. Quantative Spectroscopy and Rad. Trans.  89  155-164



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