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- noun Plural form of
polarimeter .
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Roger and Ellinor spent six years in Manhattan, at Columbia University, where he was hired for his spectroscopy skills but ended up building polarimeters strapped onto rockets fired by NASA.
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Roger and Ellinor spent six years in Manhattan, at Columbia University, where he was hired for his spectroscopy skills but ended up building polarimeters strapped onto rockets fired by NASA.
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These prisms are employed to produce polarized light for optical instruments such as microscopes and polarimeters.
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This approach to monitoring the continuously changing scene offers greater accuracy compared to previous polarimeters, which used a rotating filter wheel to measure wavelengths and polarizations sequentially.
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These prisms are employed to produce polarized light for optical instruments such as microscopes and polarimeters.
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-- The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2.3 million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to fund the Keck Array -- a suite of three microwave polarimeters at the South Pole -- and the corresponding research initiative, "Imaging the Beginning of Time: A Search for the Signature of Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background."
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The polarimeters will analyze radiation that is a relic of the primeval fireball that filled the early universe.
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The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2.3 million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to fund the Keck Array -- a suite of three microwave polarimeters at the South Pole -- and the corresponding research initiative, "Imaging the Beginning of Time: A Search for the Signature of Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background."
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All three polarimeters will be in operation by 2011.
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The polarimeters will analyze radiation that is a relic of the primeval fireball that filled the early universe.
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