SPARC4: simultaneous polarimeter and rapid camera in four bands

• Grant number: 10/01584-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Astronomical Instrumentation
• Principal Investigator: Cláudia Vilega Rodrigues
• Grantee: Cláudia Vilega Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alex Cavaliéri Carciofi ; Andre de Castro Milone ; Antonio Armstrong Pereyra Quirós ; Antônio Mário Magalhães ; Antonio Nemer Kanaan Neto ; Francisco Jose Jablonski ; Gabriel Armando Pellegatti Franco ; Joaquim Eduardo Rezende Costa ; Karleyne Medeiros Gomes da Silva ; Marcelo Assafin ; Tânia Pereira Dominici

Abstract

This proposal aims to support the conceptual design phase of a new astronomical instrument: SPARC4 - Simultaneous Polarimeter and Rapid Camera in Four bands. It is conceived to be installed at the 1.6-m telescope of the Observatório do Pico dos Dias. SPARC4 combines in one instrument: (i) good time resolution; (ii) photometric and polarimetric modes; (iii) data simultaneously obtained in four broad-bands. This combination makes it unique among available instruments in the world. Furthermore, this project has a background on a successful history of instrumentation development and on the scientific demands of the Astrophysics Division of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais. (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)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; JABLONSKI, F.; RODRIGUES, C. V.. TWO POSSIBLE CIRCUMBINARY PLANETS IN THE ECLIPSING POST-COMMON ENVELOPE SYSTEM NSVS 14256825. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 766, n. 1, MAR 20 2013. (10/01584-8)

RODRIGUES, C. V.; JABLONSKI, F. J.; TAYLOR, K.; DOMINICI, T.; LAPORTE, R.; PEREYRA, A.; STRAUSS, C.; MAGALHAES, A. M.; ASSAFIN, M.; CARCIOFI, A.; et al. SPARC4 A Simultaneous Polarimeter and Rapid Camera in 4 Bands. STELLAR POLARIMETRY: FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, v. 1429, p. 4-pg., 2012-01-01. (10/01584-8)

SILVA, K. M. G.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; COSTA, J. E. R.; DE SOUZA, C. A.; CIESLINSKI, D.; HICKEL, G. R.. Stokes imaging of AM Her systems using 3D inhomogeneous models - II. Modelling X-ray and optical data of CP Tucanae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 432, n. 2, p. 1587-1599, JUN 2013. (10/01584-8, 08/09619-5)

PEREYRA, A.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; MARTIOLI, E.. Measuring the continuum polarization with ESPaDOnS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 573, JAN 2015. (13/11473-7, 10/01584-8)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; JABLONSKI, F.; TELLO, J.; RODRIGUES, C. V.. A photometric and spectroscopic study of NSVS 14256825: the second sdOB+dM eclipsing binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 423, n. 1, p. 478-485, JUN 2012. (10/01584-8)

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)