PASIPHAE Sky Survey Project
Recently, the Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP) was in news. It is an instrument that will be used in Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE), an upcoming sky survey project. The instrument is in an advanced stage of development at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India.
PASIPHAE Project
- Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) is an international collaborative sky surveying project that has the objective of studying the polarisation in the light coming from millions of stars.
- The name is inspired from Pasiphae, the daughter of Greek Sun God Helios.
- Two high-tech optical polarimeters - ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Digital Humans
- 2 Memristor
- 3 Keytruda
- 4 Dengue Vaccine TAK-003 Cleared by DCGI
- 5 First NGOPV ‘Shachi’ Launched in Goa
- 6 India Commissions Third SSBN ‘Aridhaman’
- 7 IOC Mandates SRY Gene Screening for Female Athletes
- 8 Mission MITRA Launched to Study Human Factors for Space Missions
- 9 Artemis II Mission Completes Historic Lunar Fly-by
- 10 IVRI Produces Indigenous Sahiwal Calves Using IVF Technology
- 1 Chandrayaan-2 Solar X-ray Monitor Unravels Mysteries of the Solar Corona
- 2 New Research Points to Possibility of Life on Jupiter
- 3 Understanding Heavy Metal Abundance in CEMP Stars
- 4 ESA’s EnVision Mission
- 5 Shenzhou-12 Manned Mission: Astronauts Dock with Space Station
- 6 Defence Innovation with iDEX-DIO
- 7 IISS Report Assesses India’s Cyber Power
- 8 Novel Technique for Early Detection of Cyclones
