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    Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light...
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    Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, commonly known as IXPE or SMEX-14, is a space observatory with three identical telescopes designed to measure the...
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    Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6. Glucose is overall the most abundant monosaccharide, a subcategory of carbohydrates. Glucose is...
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    Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry...
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  • Spherical neutron polarimetry (SNP) is a form of neutron polarimetry that measures the polarization of neutrons both before and after scattering. It uses...
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    1086/181126. Chrysostomou, Antonio; et al. (2000). "Polarimetry of young stellar objects - III. Circular polarimetry of OMC-1". MNRAS. 312 (1): 103–115. Bibcode:2000MNRAS...
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    Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE), NASA's Polarimetry of Relativistic X-ray Sources (PRAXYS) or ESA's X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE). 3C 58, a possible...
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    requires significant testing of known materials. New developments in polarimetry include using the changes in the random polarization returns of some...
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    the efforts of US space agency NASA, which launched its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in 2021 by observing space events across a broad energy...
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  • Scanning laser polarimetry is the use of polarised light to measure the thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) as part of a glaucoma workup...
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    high sensitivity, as polarimetry is not limited by the stability of the Earth's atmosphere. Another main advantage is that polarimetry allows for determination...
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    not readily viewable from terrestrial observatories. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a space observatory designed to improve the understanding...
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    Reid and Brunthaler 2004 The GRAVITY collaboration (September 2023). "Polarimetry and astrometry of NIR flares as event horizon scale, dynamical probes...
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    Spectrometer (APXS) Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) will study spectral and polarimetric...
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    131 9 December 2021 06:00 F9 B5 B1061.5 Kennedy, LC‑39A Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) 325 kg (717 lb) LEO NASA (LSP) Success Success (JRTI)...
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    Patrick Michel writes: Mid- to thermal-infrared observations, along with polarimetry measurements, are probably the only data that give some indication of...
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    purity, and the concentration of two enantiomers can be measured via polarimetry. Enantiomers are characterized by their property to rotate the plane...
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    deviate depending on how it is rotated relative to Earth. Polarimetry With the polarimetry method, a polarized light reflected off the planet is separated...
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    Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry...
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    Synthetic aperture radar image of Death Valley colored using polarimetry...
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    c = 0.77624 nm, β = 102.938°. The purity of sucrose is measured by polarimetry, through the rotation of plane-polarized light by a sugar solution. The...
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    Hassaan; Shaheen, Amrozia; Anwar, Muhammad Sabieh (2013). "Complete Stokes polarimetry of magneto-optical Faraday effect in a terbium gallium garnet crystal...
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    were finalized by early 1970. These would be to perform imaging and polarimetry of Jupiter and several of its satellites, make infrared and ultraviolet...
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  • measurements including optical rotary dispersion and Faraday rotation, polarimetry of astronomical objects, strain-induced birefringence, and ellipsometry...
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  • Australia PROMPT Telescopes (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes), Chile Prompter (theatre), sometimes prompt, one who prompts...
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    Nicol prisms were once widely used in mineralogical microscopy and polarimetry, and the term "using crossed Nicols" (abbreviated as XN) is still used...
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    Tiangong-2 such as POLAR-2, an experiment of researching Gamma-ray burst polarimetry, proposed by Switzerland, Poland, Germany, and China. Canadian Professor...
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    Yellow giants Detection Astrometry Direct imaging list Microlensing list Polarimetry Timing list Radial velocity list Transit method list Transit-timing variation...
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    to have its thermal map constructed, possibly to be detected through polarimetry, its overall color determined (deep blue), its transit viewed in the...
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    planet (with Upsilon Andromedae b) was deemed a candidate for aperture polarimetry by Planetpol. It is also a candidate for "near-infrared characterisation...
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