Lab characterization & on-sky Commissioning of FiberPol Instrument for the SAAO 1.9 m Telescope

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Project Description: 

We are offering a Masters project at the SAAO to work on the development, on-telescope commissioning and early science with the upcoming new polarimetric instrument called FiberPol at the SAAO’s Instrumentation Lab. It will the first fiber-based 2D spectropolarimeter in astronomy and will enable novel astronomical observations.
Research Area: 
Astronomy
Project Level: 
Masters
This Project Is Offered At The Following Node(s): 
(UCT)

Supervisor

Dr
Siddharth
Maharana
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Affiliation: 
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)

Co-Supervisor

Dr
Sabyasachi
Chattopadhyay
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Documents: 
PDF icon SAAO Masters Project 2024.pdf
Affiliation: 
SAAO
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