A Photon Counting Stokes Vector Polarimeter

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Abstract
A sensitive polarimeter-photometer has been constructed for solar studies by the Institute for Astronomy on Mt. Haleakala. It can be used to study either the corona or the Sun's disk, and operates over a wide range in photon arrival rates. Since significant polarization as small as 10-5 is observed on the Sun's disk, noise and other sources of spurious modulation become of great importance. In this paper we present our measure-ments of the magnitude of these effects.

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