POLARIMETRY WITH THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER: METHODS, PERFORMANCE AT FIRST LIGHT, AND THE CIRCUMSTELLAR RING AROUND HR 4796A

Marshall Perrin (1) , Gaspard Duchêne (2) , Max Millar-Blanchaer , Michael P Fitzgerald (3) , James R Graham (2) , Sloane Wiktorowicz (4) , Paul Kalas (5) , Bruce Macintosh (6) , Brian Bauman , Andrew Cardwell , Jeffrey Chilcote (7) , Robert J de Rosa (2) , Daren Dillon , Rene Doyon (8) , Jennifer Dunn , Darren Erikson , Donald Gavel , Stephen J Goodsell (9) , Markus Hartung , Pascale Hibon (9) , Patrick Ingraham (10) , Daniel Kerley , Quinn Konapacky , James J Larkin (11) , Jérôme Maire (12) , Franck Marchis (13) , Christian Marois (14) , Tushar Mittal (15) , Katie Morzinski , B. Oppenheimer , David Palmer (16) , Jennifer Patience (17) , Lisa Poyneer (16) , Laurent Pueyo (1) , Fredrik Rantakyro (18) , Naru Sadakuni , Leslie Saddlemyer , Dmitry Savransky (19) , Rémi Soummer (1) , Anand Sivaramakrishnan (1) , Inseok Song (20) , Sandrine Thomas (12) , J. Kent Kent Wallace (21) , Jason J Wang (22) , Schuyler Wolff (23)

1 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute
2 Department of Astronomy [Berkeley]
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA, Los Angeles]
4 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [UCSC Santa Cruz]
5 Department of Mathematics [Berkeley]
6 KIPAC - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
7 UND - University of Notre Dame [Indiana]
8 Departement de physique and Observatoire du Mont Megantic
9 Gemini Observatory [Southern Operations Center]
10 LSST - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
11 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
12 UC San Diego - University of California [San Diego]
13 Carl Sagan Center
14 UVIC - University of Victoria [Canada]
15 EPS - Department of Earth and Planetary Science [UC Berkeley]
16 LLNL - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
17 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
18 ESO - European Southern Observatory
19 Department of Astronomy [Ithaca]
20 University of Georgia [USA]
21 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
22 Caltech Department of Astronomy [Pasadena]
23 Leiden Observatory [Leiden]

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Marshall Perrin, Gaspard Duchêne, Max Millar-Blanchaer, Michael P Fitzgerald, James R Graham, et al.. POLARIMETRY WITH THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER: METHODS, PERFORMANCE AT FIRST LIGHT, AND THE CIRCUMSTELLAR RING AROUND HR 4796A. The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 799 (2), pp.182. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/182⟩. ⟨hal-02475546⟩