SOUTH POL: revealing the polarized Southern Sky

• Grant number: 10/19694-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: September 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Astronomical Instrumentation
• Principal Investigator: Antônio Mário Magalhães
• Grantee: Antônio Mário Magalhães
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alex Cavaliéri Carciofi ; Antonio Armstrong Pereyra Quirós ; Claudia Lucia Mendes de Oliveira ; Cláudia Vilega Rodrigues ; Elisabete Maria de Gouveia Dal Pino ; Felipe Miguel Pait ; Fuad Kassab Junior ; Marcos Perez Diaz ; Ricardo Paulino Marques ; Roberto Dell'Aglio Dias da Costa

Abstract

The principal aim of this project is to implement and execute SOUTH POL, a survey of the Southern sky in optical polarized light. For that purpose, we will design and build a polarimetric module to be installed in the 80cm Robotic Telescope (RT) that was recently awarded by FAPESP to IAG. This project aims at obtaining support for the construction of this polarimeter and implementation of the survey, as well as the development and implementation of the data reduction pipeline and web-based access to the database.SOUTH POL will be an unprecedented undertaking in Astronomy. Initially, it will cover the sky south of declination -15° in less than two years of observing time. With a polarimetric accuracy less than or equal to 0.1% down to V=15, the survey will provide Astrophysics with an unparalled, highly valuable database. Its legacy will have an immediate impact in several areas, such as Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy, Interstellar Medium of the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds, Star Formation, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar explosions (GRBs, novae and supernovae) and Solar System, among others. SOUTH POL will steadly progress to both more northernly declinations and additional epochs, allowing for variability studies of Galactic and extragalactic sources.More detailed, deeper programs with the RT and the polarimeter will additionally contribute to tackle more specific scientific problems in the areas above and other areas. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GOMES, AIARA LOBO; MAGALHAES, ANTONIO MARIO; PEREYRA, ANTONIO; RODRIGUES, CLAUDIA VILEGA. A NEW OPTICAL POLARIZATION CATALOG FOR THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD: THE MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURE. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 806, n. 1, JUN 10 2015. (10/19694-4, 10/03802-2, 01/12589-1)

RAMIREZ, EDGAR A.; MAGALHAES, ANTONIO M.; DAVIDSON, JR., JAMES W.; PEREYRA, ANTONIO; RUBINHO, MARCELO. Solvepol: A Reduction Pipeline for Imaging Polarimetry Data. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v. 129, n. 975, MAY 1 2017. (12/00185-8, 10/19694-4)

ANGARITA, Y.; VERSTEEG, M. J. F.; HAVERKORN, M.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; MAGALHAES, A. M.; SANTOS-LIMA, R.; KAWABATA, KOJI S.. Interstellar Polarization Survey. III. Relation between Optical Polarization and Reddening in the General Interstellar Medium. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 166, n. 1, p. 19-pg., 2023-07-01. (10/19694-4, 01/12589-1)

FRISCH, P. C.; BERDYUGIN, A. B.; PIIROLA, V.; MAGALHAES, A. M.; SERIACOPI, D. B.; FERRARI, T.; SANTOS, F. P.; SCHWADRON, N. A.; FUNSTEN, H. O.; MCCOMAS, D. J.; et al. Following the interstellar magnetic field from the heliosphere into space with polarized starlight. WAKE CONFERENCE 2021, v. 767, p. 11-pg., 2016-01-01. (10/19694-4)

MAGALHAES, A. M.; DE OLIVEIRA, C. M.; CARCIOFI, A.; COSTA, R.; DAL PINO, E. M. G.; DIAZ, M.; FERRARI, T.; FERNANDEZ, C.; GOMES, A. L.; MARRARA, L.; et al. SOUTH POL: Revealing the Polarized Southern Sky. STELLAR POLARIMETRY: FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, v. 1429, p. 4-pg., 2012-01-01. (09/54202-8, 10/19694-4)

RODRIGUES, CLAUDIA V.; TAYLOR, KEITH; JABLONSKI, FRANCISCO J.; ASSAFIN, MARCELO; CARCIOFI, ALEX; CIESLINSKI, DEONISIO; COSTA, JOAQUIM E. R.; DOMINGUEZ, RUBEN; DOMINICI, TANIA P.; FRANCO, GABRIEL A. P.; et al. Concept of SPARC4: A Simultaneous Polarimeter and Rapid Camera in 4 Bands. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IV, v. 8446, p. 13-pg., 2012-01-01. (10/19694-4, 10/01584-8)

ANDERSSON, B-G; CLAYTON, G. C.; DONEY, K. D.; PANOPOULOU, G. V.; HOANG, T.; MAGALHAES, A. M.; YAN, H.; IGNACE, R.; SCOWEN, P. A.. Ultraviolet spectropolarimetry with polstar: interstellar medium science. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, v. 367, n. 12, p. 20-pg., 2022-12-01. (01/12589-1, 10/19694-4)

VERSTEEG, M. J. F.; MAGALHAES, A. M.; HAVERKORN, M.; ANGARITA, Y.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; SANTOS-LIMA, R.; KAWABATA, KOJI S.. Interstellar Polarization Survey. II. General Interstellar Medium. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 165, n. 3, p. 15-pg., 2023-03-01. (01/12589-1, 10/19694-4)