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Invitation to Spectropolarimetry

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ((NAII,volume 161))

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Recent research has made clear the exceptional importance of spectropolarimetry in the study of physical conditions in atmospheres and circumstellar envelopes of different kinds of stars, in galactic nuclei and to obtain knowledge about interstellar matter. The goal of this brief review is to illustrate the field with several examples and to present new revelations made using ground-based spectropolarimetry with large telescopes. I conclude with a short description of a newly proposed spectropolarimeter for the WSO/UV mission.

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  1. Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchny, Crimea, 98409, Ukraine

    Yu. S. Yefimov

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  1. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland, USA

    Gorden Videen

  2. Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

    Yaroslav Yatskiv

  3. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA

    Michael Mishchenko

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Yefimov, Y.S. (2004). Invitation to Spectropolarimetry. In: Videen, G., Yatskiv, Y., Mishchenko, M. (eds) Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 161. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2368-5_21

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