The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in India is developing the Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP). WALOP is a critical component of the PASIPHAE Project. The Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) is a collaborative international sky surveying project.
It is an Opto polarimetric survey with the goal of measuring the linear polarisation of millions of stars.
The survey will use 2 high-tech optical polarimeters to simultaneously observe the southern and northern sky.
The survey will be carried out simultaneously from the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, South Africa, in
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