The list below is necessarily very incomplete and reflects personal
prejudices. Never mind, its purpose is purely educational.
Lyot, 1948, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences Paris 226, 137
First modulator (narrowband, solar)
Dollfus, 1963, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences Paris
256, 1920
Development of above (still solar)
Tinbergen, 1973, Astron. & Astrophys. 23, 25
Broadband development of above (stellar)
Behr, 1956, Veröff. Univ. Sternwarte Göttingen no 114
Two-channel DC polarimeter
Treanor, 1968, MNRAS 138, 325
Rotating halfwave, photographic
Scarrott et al., 1983, MNRAS 204, 1163 and Scarrott,
1991, Vistas in Astronomy 34, 163
The Durham imaging
polarimeter for faint objects, in regular use around the world;
originally
electronographic, now CCD
Gehrels and Teska, 1960, PASP 72, 115
Contains the suspended-polaroid trick for angle
calibration
Kemp, 1969, Jour Opt Soc Am 59, 950
Photo-elastic modulator
Angel and Landstreet, 1970, Ap.J. 160, L147
Electro-optic crystal modulator
Piirola, 1973, Astron. & Astrophys. 27, 383
Calcite plate analyser, chopper modulator
McLean, 1984, SPIE 445 (Instrumentation in Astronomy V),
547
CCD and IPCS systems
Metz, 1984, Astron. & Astrophys. 136, 175
Sky compensation
Hayden Smith and Smith,
1991, Experimental Astronomy 1, 329
Acousto-optic tunable filter polarimetry
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Clarke and Stewart, 1986, Vistas in Astronomy 29, 27
Statistical methods for polarimetry
Hiltner and Schild, 1965, Sky and Telescope, September issue
Rotatable telescope
Borra, 1976, PASP 88, 548
Problems at Coudé focus
Tinbergen, 1988, ESO Conference on VLTs and their Instrumentation,
1267
Measurement errors caused by polarization
effects
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Smith et al., 1988, MNRAS 233, 305
Crab pulsar synchronised polarimetry
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Tinbergen `Polarimetry at the WHT', Gemini no 32, p.6, 1991
Tinbergen `Array detectors in astronomical polarimetry', draft
of part of joint paper (with Ian McLean)
for IAU Buenos Aires Commission 25, 1991. Available
from TINBERGEN@HRDKSW5