PASIPHAE will measure the polarization induced by the ISM on starlight in order to map the magnetic field in 3 dimensions.
3-dimensional ISM properties and their effect on searches for B-modes
Searching for inflationary B modes: can dust emission properties be extrapolated from 350 GHz to 150 GHz? - MNRAS, 451, L90 (2015) K. Tassis & V. Pavlidou
Maps of the number of HI clouds along the line of sight at high galactic latitude - ApJ, 902, 22 (2020) G. V. Panopoulou & D. Lenz
Evidence for Line-of-Sight Frequency Decorrelation of Polarized Dust Emission in Planck Data - A&A, 647, 16 (2021) V. Pelgrims, S. E. Clark, B. S. Hensley, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pavlidou, K. Tassis, H. K. Eriksen, I. K. Wehus
The effect of cosmic variance on the characteristics of dust polarization power spectra - A&A, 658, 19 (2022) V. Pelgrims, E. Ntormousi & K. Tassis
Polarization power spectra and dust cloud morphology - A&A, accepted (2022) A. Konstantinou, V. Pelgrims, F. Fuchs & K. Tassis
Tomography of the magnetic field
Demonstration of magnetic field tomography with starlight polarization towards a diffuse sightline of the ISM - ApJ, 872, 56 (2019) Georgia V. Panopoulou, Konstantinos Tassis, Raphael Skalidis, Dmitriy Blinov, Ioannis Liodakis, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Stephen B. Potter, Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Ingunn K. Wehus
PASIPHAE: A high-Galactic-latitude, high-accuracy optopolarimetric survey - arXiv:1810.05652 Konstantinos Tassis, Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Stephen B. Potter, Ingunn K. Wehus, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Dmitry Blinov, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Brandon Hensley, Ata Karakci, John A. Kypriotakis, Siddharth Maharana, Evangelia Ntormousi, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy J. Pearson, Raphael Skalidis
Starlight-polarization-based tomography of the magnetized ISM: Pasiphae's line-of-sight inversion method - A&A, 670, A164 (2023) V. Pelgrims, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis, V. Pavlidou, A. Basyrov, D. Blinov, E. Gjerløw, S. Kiehlmann, N. Mandarakas, A. Papadaki, R. Skalidis, A. Tsouros, R. M. Anche, H. K. Eriksen, T. Ghosh, J. A. Kypriotakis, S. Maharana, E. Ntormousi, T. J. Pearson, S. B. Potter, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, I. K. Wehus
The first degree-scale starlight-polarization-based tomography map of the magnetized interstellar medium - arXiv:2404.10821 V. Pelgrims, N. Mandarakas, R. Skalidis, K. Tassis, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pavlidou, D. Blinov, S. Kiehlmann, S. E. Clark, B. S. Hensley, S. Romanopoulos, A. Basyrov, H. K. Eriksen, M. Falalaki, T. Ghosh, E. Gjerløw, J. A. Kypriotakis, S. Maharana, A. Papadaki, T. J. Pearson, S. B. Potter, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, I. K.Wehus
ISM polarization far from the Galactic plane
Local Measurements of the Mean Interstellar Polarization at High Galactic Latitudes - A&A, 616, A52 (2018) R. Skalidis, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis, V. Pavlidou, D. Blinov, I. Komis, I. Liodakis
ISM polarization
Extreme starlight polarization in a region with highly polarized dust emission - A&A, 624, L8 (2019) Georgia V. Panopoulou, Brandon S. Hensley, Raphael Skalidis, Dmitry Blinov, Konstantinos Tassis
3D structure of the local magnetized ISM
Local Bubble contribution to the 353-GHz dust polarized emission - A&A, 631, L11 (2019) R. Skalidis & V. Pelgrims
Modeling the magnetized Local Bubble from dust data - A&A, 636, 15 (2020) V. Pelgrims, K. Ferriere, F. Boulanger, R. Lallement & L. Montier
Galactic magnetometry
High-accuracy estimation of magnetic field strength in the interstellar medium from dust polarization - A&A, 647, 9 (2021) R. Skalidis & K. Tassis
Why take the square root? An assessment of interstellar magnetic field strength estimation methods - A&A, 656, 12 (2021) R. Skalidis, J. Sternberg, J. R. Beattie, V. Pavlidou, K. Tassis
HI-H2 transition: exploring the role of the magnetic field - A&A, 665, A77 (2022) R. Skalidis, K. Tassis, G. V. Panopoulou, J. L. Pineda, Y. Gong, N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, S. Kiehlmann, J. A. Kypriotakis
Instrumentation
Lifting the dusty veil over inflation - Nature Astronomy, 5, 519 (2021) A. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead and K. Tassis
WALOP-South: A Four Camera One Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper I — Optical Design - Accepted to JATIS Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Ramya M. Anche, Shrish, Dmitry Blinov, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy J. Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Stephen B. Potter, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis, Ingunn K. Wehus
WALOP-South: A wide-field one-shot linear optical polarimeter for PASIPHAE survey - SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114475E (2020) Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash, Pravin Khodade, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Bhushan S. Joshi, Pravin Chordia, Ramya M. Anche, Shrish Mishra, Dmitry Blinov, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy J. Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Stephen B. Potter, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis, Ingunn K. Wehus
Stress-induced birefringence in the lenses of Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter-South - Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 12188, id. 121882C, p. 13 (2022) Anche Ramya M., Maharana Siddharth, Ramaprakash A. N., Khodade Pravin, Modi Deepa, Rajarshi Chaitanya, Kypriotakis John A., Blinov Dmitry, Eriksen Hans Kristian, Ghosh Tuhin, Panopoulou Georgia V., Pelgrims Vincent, Skalidis Raphael, Pearson Timothy J., Gjerløw Eirik, Mandarakas Nikolaos, Pavlidou Vasiliki, Potter Stephen B., Readhead Anthony C. S., Tassis Konstantinos, Basyrov Artem, Papadaki Katerina, Svalheim Trygve Leithe, Wehus Ingunn K.
WALOP-South: a four-camera one-shot imaging polarimeter for PASIPHAE survey. Paper II - polarimetric modeling and calibration - JATIS, Vol. 8, id. 038004 (2022) Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche, A. N. Ramaprakash, Bhushan Joshi, Artem Basyrov, Dmitry Blinov, Carolina Casadio, Kishan Deka, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, John A. Kypriotakis, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia V. Panopoulou, Katerina Papadaki, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy J. Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Stephen B. Potter, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Raphael Skalidis, Trygve Leithe Svalheim, Konstantinos Tassis, Ingunn K. Wehus
Polarimetric standards & calibration of polarimeters
The RoboPol sample of optical polarimetric standards - A&A, 677, A144 (2023) D. Blinov, S. Maharana, F. Bouzelou, C. Casadio, E. Gjerløw, J. Jormanainen, S. Kiehlmann, J. A. Kypriotakis, I. Liodakis, N. Mandarakas, L. Markopoulioti, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims, A. Pouliasi, S. Romanopoulos, R. Skalidis, R. M. Anche, E. Angelakis, J. Antoniadis, B. J. Medhi, T. Hovatta, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, I. Myserlis, E. Paleologou, I. Papadakis, V. Pavlidou, I. Papamastorakis, T. J. Pearson, S. B. Potter, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, A. Słowikowska, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus
Bright-Moon Sky as a Wide-Field Linear Polarimetric Flat Source for Calibration - arXiv:2305.04270 S. Maharana, S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov, V. Pelgrims, V. Pavlidou, K. Tassis, J. A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash, R. M. Anche, A. Basyrov, K. Deka, H. K. Eriksen, T. Ghosh, E. Gjerløw, N. Mandarakas, E. Ntormousi, G. V. Panopoulou, A. Papadaki, T. Pearson, S. B. Potter, A. C. S. Readhead, R. Skalidis, I. K. Wehus
Zero-polarization candidate regions for calibration of wide-field optical polarimeters - A&A, 684, A132 (2024) N. Mandarakas, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims, S. B. Potter, V. Pavlidou, A. Ramaprakash, K. Tassis, D. Blinov, S. Kiehlmann, E. Koutsiona, S. Maharana, S. Romanopoulos, R. Skalidis, A. Vervelaki, S. E. Clark, J. A. Kypriotakis, A. C. S. Readhead
Side projects
Search for AGN counterparts of unidentified Fermi-LAT sources with optical polarimetry: Demonstration of the technique - A&A, 623, A61 (2019) N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, I. Liodakis, K. Kouroumpatzakis, A. Zezas, G. V. Panopoulou, I. Myserlis, E. Angelakis, T. Hovatta, S. Kiehlmann, K. Kokolakis, E. Paleologou, A. Pouliasi, R. Skalidis, V. Pavlidou
Probing the unidentified Fermi blazar-like population using optical polarization and machine learning - MNRAS, 486, 3415 (2019) I. Liodakis and D. Blinov
