July 2012 ISSUE 48
New
Meetings
You
are kindly invited to participate in a session of the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting
Polarimetry as an invaluable tool to study
the Solar System and beyond
(session P22 in Planetary Science)
The Meeting will be held on 3 - 7 December, 2012, in San Francisco, CA, USA.
The
meeting website is http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/
The
registration and housing is open on July 12, 2012.
The
abstract submission website is http://agu-fm12.abstractcentral.com/
, the submission deadline is August 8, 2012
Rationale
Polarimetry is a powerful tool providing a wealth of
information about astronomical objects that cannot be obtained by traditional
photometric/spectroscopic observations. Recent applications include
characterization of solar system objects (sun, planetary atmospheres, moon,
comets, asteroids, satellites, ring systems, asteroids, dust)
to the detection of exoplanets and identification of
biological markers. This session is open to papers about recent spectropolarimetric observations of solar system bodies,
theoretical or experimental investigations,instrumental
developments for spectropolarimeters to be included
in ground-based facilities or onboard future space missions, exoplanets and circumstellar
envelopes.
Conveners
Herve Lamy,
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels,
Belgium
Padma Yanamandra-Fisher,
SSI, Boulder, CO, United States
Ludmilla Kolokolova, Univ. of Maryland,
College Park, MD, United States
Mathieu Barthelemy, IPAG, Grenoble, France.
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Call for Papers:
Special Issue of Earth, Planets and Space
(EPS): Cosmic Dust V
This issue of EPS will be primarily
devoted to the 5th meeting on Cosmic Dust held at CPS (Center for Planetary
Science), Kobe, Japan between August 6-10, 2012, by containing the papers
presented at this particular meeting. Nevertheless, it is also open to
submission of any other papers, following the regular EPS submission
procedures, provided that the contributions discuss some aspect of cosmic dust.
All kinds of cosmic dust such as
intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, protoplanetary
disk dust, debris disk dust, cometary dust, asteroidal dust, interplanetary dust, circumplanetary
dust, stellar nebular condensates, presolar grains,
micrometeorites, meteoroids, meteors, regolith particles are the subject of
discussion. Papers on other dust related topics, for example, the formation of
molecules and their reactions on and their desorption
from the surface of dust particles, are also welcome.
All submitted papers go through a peer
review process, wherein experts review, recommend, or reject the papers for
publishing. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be
submitted online through the Editorial Manager for Earth, Planets and Space at http://www.editorialmanager.com/eps/
.
For details, please visit the EPS
website: http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS
and click on Guidelines for Authors.
The deadline for manuscript
submissions is 31 October 2012.
The cover letter should mention
Submitted to the Special Issue: Cosmic Dust V. After papers are accepted, the
authors will receive instructions for the final manuscript from the editorial
office. This special issue will hopefully be published in July 2013.
For more information on this special
issue, please contact the corresponding editor
H. Kimura dust-inquiries@cps-jp.org .
Questions on manuscript preparation
should be addressed to the EPS editorial office eps@terrapub.co.jp .
Note: EPS accepts manuscripts of
original research contributions only, and so-called review papers will not be
accepted.
Guest Editors:
Hiroshi Kimura, CPS (Center for
Planetary Science), Japan
Akio Inoue, Osaka Sangyo University,
Japan
Cornelia Jager,
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany
Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of
Maryland, USA
Alexander Krivov,
Friedrich Schiller University, Germany
Aigen Li, University of Missouri-Columbia,
USA
Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, NASA Johnson
Space Center, USA
Tetsuo Yamamoto, CPS/Hokkaido
University, Japan
New paper
William
Sparks (Space Telescope Science Institute) Thomas A. Germer (National Institute of Standards and
Technology), John MacKenty (Space Telescope Science Institute), Frans Snik (Sterrewacht Leiden, Universiteit
Leiden)
A compact and robust method for full
Stokes spectropolarimetry
We present an approach to spectropolarimetry
which requires neither moving parts nor time dependent modulation, and which
offers the prospect of achieving high sensitivity. The technique applies
equally well, in principle, in the optical, UV or IR. The concept, which is one
of those generically known as channeled polarimetry,
is to encode the polarization information at each wavelength along the spatial
dimension of a 2D data array using static, robust optical components. A single
two-dimensional data frame contains the full polarization information and can
be configured to measure either two or all of the Stokes polarization
parameters. By acquiring full polarimetric
information in a single observation, we simplify polarimetry
of transient sources and in situations where the instrument and target are in
relative motion. The robustness and simplicity of the approach, coupled to its
potential for high sensitivity, and applicability over a wide wavelength range,
is likely to prove useful for applications in challenging environments such as
space.
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Accepted for publication in Applied Optics (provisionally, v.51, No 22, 08/01/2012) |
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Subjects: |
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) |
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Cite as: |
arXiv:1206.7106v1
[astro-ph.IM] |