Promises and Pitfalls of Polarimetry

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Imagine an observational technique, differential in nature, that takes full advantage of the information content a photon has to offer. Photometric conditions would be unecessary, allowing groundbased telescopes to outsrip their space-based counterparts for uses where imaging is not required. Indeed, such a technique has been around for decades in the form of polarimetry. Why, then, are the numbers of polarimeters and polarimetrists so few? Does the bright side of polarimetry simply fall on blind eyes?

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تاریخ انتشار 2009