Instrumental polarization caused by telescope optics during wide field imaging

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 113-119

  Sen, A K ^a,b   Kakati, M ^a  

^a Centre of Plasma Physics   (India)

^b ASSAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Polarization; Techniques: polarimetric techniques; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 4244129241     PISSN: 03650138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/aas:1997254     Document Type: Article

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