Testing the accuracy of WeDoWoSummaryThe standard star data suggests that
The test dataHigh and zero polarization standard stars were observed during five nights in October and November 2012. For the calibrations dome flats were taken with two rotator position angles (ROTPOS=0 and ROTPOS=90) with the same integration time, typically ten+ten frames. The data was reduced in a standard manner, the dome flats were combined after bias subtraction. After this, the standard star data were bias subtracted, trimmed and flatfield corrected. The data from each night data were reduced in a similar way.In most cases the calculated polarization was less than the literature value, e.g the measured V-band linear polarization of BD+64106 was about 5.4% (nights of vj13,vj15, vk09) using WeDoWo, however the literature value is 5.7%. The zero polarization stars showed low, close to zero (0.1-0.2%), polarization in all but one night. The typical error of degree of polarization of one measurement was about 0.1%. The data from the night of vj24 were different to other nights, the high polarization star measurements show lower polarization ( BD+64106 V(vj24)= 4.5%) than other nights and zero polarization data show higher polarization (HD12021 V(vj24)= 0.8%). We note that during the nights of vj13,vj15, vk09 the moon illumination was between 0 to 20% and 79% in the night of vj24. The B- and i-band data show similar trend to the V-band data. In addition, in the night of vk13 high polarization stars BD+59389 and HD25443 were observed five and four times, respectively, through i-filter. All measurements show similar values, slightly below the literature value (5.1% vs 5.80%, for BD+59389 and 3.1% vs 4.25%, for HD25443), but the "variability" was within the measurement errors.
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