WeDoWo polarimetry supposes the one shot imaging procedure,
very easy and quick
to perform if a good flat field and a good zero polarization standard
has been obtained. It is useful in the case you are interested to
observe a star object with only one shoot.
Imaging
With the 10 arc-second slit the FOV is 10 arcsec times the length of the
slit.
Set the CCD Window (afternoon by the observer):
- select 10 arc sec horizontal slit
- select WeDoWo (in grism wheel)
- make sure all the other wheel positions are open
and no other optical elements in the beam
- turn on the ThAr calibration lamp
- take a 0.3 sec image and note the ysize and ybeg
and possibly xsize and xbeg for the polarimetry window
about ysize=400 and ybeg=820
- if you keep the full xsize the benefit is having pre/overscn
in the frame
Calibrations:
- Day time
- take a dome flat fields (10 images for example)
with slit/polarimetric mask,
filter and polarimeter inserted with rot-pos 0 deg and
second set with
rot-pos 90 deg
- put the halogen "Dome FF Lamp" under the telescope
- power-on the telescope
- open mirror covers
- set the telescope to altitude 45 or so, (TCS alt 45)
- for blue or narrow filters open sideports, note only when the
weather allows (no rain, humidity less than 90%)
- take the data
- night time
- low polarization standards in order to estimate instrumental
polarization
- high polarization standards in order to estimate the
position angle zero point
Note that it is recommended to take the polarization standards
with the same field-rotation angle as your science frames.
Telescope focus:
The best focus with the "WeDoWo+ no filter"
is about +40 TCS focus units greater ('tcs.foc-del +40') than the one with
"no filter".
Target acquisition:
- take a target acquisition image with the required filter
in the beam
- offset the telescope
- take a second image with the WeDoWo in the beam for fine tuning
the position and estimating the needed integration time.
For target acquisition you can use "alfosc.acquisition" script
e.g.
tessa$ alfosc.acquisition -q Slit_10.0 2
tessa$ alfosc.resetxy
tessa$ alfosc.ysize 400
tessa$ alfosc.ybeg 820
tessa$ alfosc.wheels -g WeDoWo
tessa$ alfosc.expose 10
- If you want to have two targets on the slit use "alfosc.slitrot"
Imaging Setup (by staff):
- 10 arc sec horizontal slit in the aperture wheel
- WeDoWo in the grism wheel, in such way that the image is split
vertically (see image)
- use broad band filters either in FASU or filter wheel.
The WeDoWo should be installed in the grism wheel in such a way that it
splits the beam vertically. When inserting it in the slot, the element's
dividing line should be horizontal. Install the 10 arc-second wide slit
horizontally in the aperture wheel. In editsetup select WeDoWo
with orientation Horizontal and and Slit_10.0" with orientation Horizontal.