Title
Solvepol: A reduction pipeline for imaging polarimetry data
Date Issued
01 May 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ramírez E.
Magalhães A.
Davidson J.
Rubinho M.
Publisher(s)
Institute of Physics Publishing
Abstract
We present a newly, fully automated, data pipeline, Solvepol, designed to reduce and analyze polarimetric data. It has been optimized for imaging data from the Instituto de Astronomía, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG) of the University of São Paulo (USP), calcite Savart prism plate-based IAGPOL polarimeter. Solvepol is also the basis of a reduction pipeline for the wide-field optical polarimeter that will execute SOUTH POL, a survey of the polarized southern sky. Solvepol was written using the Interactive data language (IDL) and is based on the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) task PCCDPACK, developed by our polarimetry group. We present and discuss reduced data from standard stars and other fields and compare these results with those obtained in the IRAF environment. Our analysis shows that Solvepol, in addition to being a fully automated pipeline, produces results consistent with those reduced by PCCDPACK and reported in the literature.
Volume
129
Issue
975
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geografía física Astronomía Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85020029749
Source
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ISSN of the container
00046280
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