Even though my midterm presentation is pasted in week 6, I actually gave it during the end of week 7. I have spent a lot of time observing these last two weeks. There have been less clouds than usual even though it is important to note that it has been extremely smokey. As of now, we do not think that the smoke is going to affect the DoLP, but in the case that it does, we can just determine how much smoke affects the DoLP of the moon in narrowband filters! My preliminary DoLP plot that I made last week does not have negative phase angles, so I spent some time this week creating my own code that would output negative phase angles when the moon was moving from a new moon to a full moon phase. This worked out really well, and I have a new DoLP plot inserted below! I also chose to compare the data points that I have to the data points in the Coyne and Pellicori paper (blue and green filters), which match up really well with my data! Another thing I spent some time doing was going through all the recent data, determining if it was good or bad and performing manual background corrections to each picture.
The curve below is another preliminary DoLP Plot!
The pictures below are processed to be paper worthy. They are the 3 parameters that we get from our polarization measurements, which include S0, AoP, and DoLP! Also another thing to note is that these are the parameters from the Green Filter taken on June 12, 2024.
Next week, I need to perform more polarimetric calibrations to continue processing the data that I have collected to add to my DoLP plot. I also will be finishing up the poster that I made (which is below) as well as finishing my final presentation to be given the last week of the REU.
My preliminary poster can be found below!