PAOLO: a Polarimeter Add-On for the LRS Optics at a Nasmyth focus of the
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We describe a new polarimetric facility available at the Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica / Telescopio Nazionale Galileo at La Palma, Canary islands. This facility, PAOLO (Polarimetric Add-On for the LRS Optics), is located at a Nasmyth focus of an alt-az telescope and requires a specific modeling in order to remove the time- and pointing position-dependent instrumental polarization. We also describe the opto-mechanical structure of the instrument and its calibration and present early examples of applications.

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Publication date Created: 02 September 2013

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DOI: 10.1002/asna.201311954

ArXiV ID: 1309.0511

SO-VID: a67fd0ab-10fa-46a0-b754-b57e28f0516d

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Comments 7 pages, 9 figures, AN, in press

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