NIRC2-Pol: First Light of Near-Infrared Polarimetry on Keck II

arXiv:2608.24661 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Terminology

• Calibration — 17× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Aperture — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Optics (AO) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture Photometry — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Keck II Adaptive Optics — 2× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Binocular Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• The Observers' Data Access Portal at the Keck Observatory Archive

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