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    PlanetPol was a ground-based, high sensitivity polarimeter based at the William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain...
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  • Thumbnail for Lists of planets
    lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...
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    ZIMPOL/CHEOPS and PlanetPol are currently using polarimeters to search for extrasolar planets. The first successful detection of an extrasolar planet using this...
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    presenting the same face to it. The planet (with Upsilon Andromedae b) was deemed a candidate for aperture polarimetry by Planetpol. It is also a candidate for...
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    55 Cancri e (redirect from Janssen (planet))
    A.; Tamura, M.; Hirst, E.; Harrison, D. (2007) [16 July 2008 (v1)]. "Planetpol polarimetry of the exoplanet systems 55 Cnc and τ Boo". Monthly Notices...
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  • Mission PEGASE Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry Mission Terrestrial Planet Finder "Mt. Hamilton Telescopes: Carnegie Double Astrograph". www.ucolick...
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  • Thumbnail for Pol sambol
    Pol sambol (Sinhala: පොල් සම්බෝල), or thenkai sambal (Tamil: தேங்காய் சம்பல்), is a traditional Sri Lankan dish made from coconut, mostly used as an accompaniment...
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  • RNA polymerase I (redirect from RNA Pol I)
    RNA polymerase 1 (also known as Pol I) is, in higher eukaryotes, the polymerase that only transcribes ribosomal RNA (but not 5S rRNA, which is synthesized...
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  • Thumbnail for Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research
    rocky planets seen exclusively through reflected light. The angular separation between the planet and its host star is very small. For a planet ~10 AU...
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    compared to the age of the system. The planet (with 51 Pegasi b) was deemed a candidate for direct imaging by Planetpol. Preliminary results from polarimetric...
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