HIPPI-2 Commissioned at MIRA

Abstract

Abstract We have commissioned the High Precision Polarimetric Instrument 2 on the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy's 36 inch telescope at its Bernard M. Oliver Observing Station. The night-to-night precision on bright stars is measured as σ p  = 7.1 ppm and e p  = 1.7 ppm in g ′ ; its accuracy on high polarization standard stars is 1.2%, despite the instrument not being actively guided. This matches the best performance achieved on much larger telescopes, which we attribute to the excellent site conditions.