Spectropolarimetry at the Hale Telescope

该奖项支持在小额赠款下开始的工作的继续 探索性研究。 这项工作的核心是利用 一个重要的新天文仪器，一个分光偏振仪 在帕洛玛五米望远镜，研究活跃的原子核 星系 旋光法的使用使人们能够推断出 这种系统的中心目标，即使它们被掩盖， 是由母星系中的尘埃造成的 这种乐器被 设计，建造，并将由该集团领导， 在研究视超光速运动的方式在其中一些 对象

This award supports continuation of work begun under a Small Grant for Exploratory Research. The heart of the work is the utilization of an important new astronomical instrument, a spectropolarimeter at the Palomar five meter telescope, to study the nuclei of active galaxies. The use of polarimetry enables one to infer properties of the central object of such systems, even when they are obscured by intervening dust in the parent galaxy. This instrument was designed, built, and will be operated by the group that has led the way in the study of apparent superluminal motion in some of these objects.