The New HiVIS Spectropolarimeter and Spectropolarimetric Calibration of the AEOS Telescope
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We designed, built, and calibrated a new spectropolarimeter for the HiVIS spectrograph (R∼ 12000-49000) on the AEOS telescope. We also did a polarization calibration of the telescope and instrument. We will introduce the design and use of the spectropolarimeter as well as a new data reduction package we have developed, then discuss the polarization calibration of the spectropolarimeter and the AEOS telescope. We used observations of unpolarized standard stars at many pointings to measure the telescope induced polarization and compare it with a Zemax model. The telescope induces polarization of 1-6% with a strong variation with wavelength and pointing, consistent with the altitude and azimuth variation expected. We then used scattered sunlight as a linearly polarized source to measure the telescopes spectropolarimetric response to linearly polarized light. We then made an all-sky map of the telescope’s polarization response to calibrate future spectropolarimetry. Subject headings: Polarization, Instrumentation: Polarimeters, Techniques: Polarimetric
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