THE STRUCTURE OF THE INTERSTELLAR MAGNETIC FIELD IN THE GALAXY

• Grant number: 12/00185-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium
• Principal Investigator: Antônio Mário Magalhães
• Grantee: Edgar André Ramírez Alonso
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The goal of this postdoc application is the participation of Dr. Edgar Ramírez in the Polarimetry Group at IAG-USP and its activities. These will include data reduction, analysis and publication of the data obtained for the Survey of Interstellar Polarization at the LNA observatory. These data and their analysis will provide fundamental information on the Galactic interstellar magnetic field on several scales.Among the activities we highlight the implementation of an improved data reduction pipeline, building upon the existing software. This will also lead to the pipeline that will cope with the forthcoming imaging data of SOUTH POL, the first survey of the Southern polarized sky in the optical.

Scientific publications

(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)

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)