Dr. Ioannis Liodakis Profile

Dr. Ioannis Liodakis

at NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

The WALOP software

John Kypriotakis, Bhushan Joshi, Dmitry Blinov, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Siddharth Maharana, Chaitanya Rajarshi, A. Ramaprakash, Artem Basyrov, Myrto Falalaki, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, Ioannis Liodakis, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia Panopoulou, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Stephen Potter, Anthony C. Readhead, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis, Namita Uppal

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131011A (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018100

KEYWORDS: Databases, Calibration, Polarizers, Observatories, CCD cameras, Control software, Web services, Control systems, Robotics, Internet imaging, Instrumentation control

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Systems design, assembly, integration, and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter

Siddharth Maharana, A. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Pravin Khodade, Bhushan Joshi, Pravin Chordia, Abhay Kohok, Ramya Anche, Deepa Modi, John Kypriotakis, Amit Deokar, Aditya Kinjawadekar, Stephen Potter, Dmitry Blinov, Hans Kristian Eriksen, Myrto Falalaki, Hitesh Gajjar, Tuhin Ghosh, Eirik Gjerløw, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Ioannis Liodakis, Nikolaos Mandarakas, Georgia Panopoulou, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Timothy Pearson, Vincent Pelgrims, Anthony C. Readhead, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis, Namita Uppal, Ingunn Wehus

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130967P (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3016144

KEYWORDS: Equipment, Cameras, Polarimetry, Polarizers, Collimators, Telescopes, Cements, Polarization, Calibration, Optomechanical design, Optical design, Calcite

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Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in Sutherland Observatory, South Africa to undertake the PASIPHAE sky survey. PASIPHAE program will create the first polarimetric sky map in the optical wavelengths, spanning more than 2000 square degrees of the southern Galactic region. In a single exposure, WALOP-South’s innovative design will enable it to measure the linear polarization (Stokes parameters q and u) of all sources in a field of view (FoV) of 35 × 35 arc-minutes-squared in the SDSS-r broadband and narrowband filters between 500-750 nm with 0.1 % polarization accuracy. The unique goals of the instrument place very stringent systems engineering goals, including on the performance of the optical, polarimetric, optomechanical, and electronic subsystems. In particular, the major technical hurdles for the project included the development of: (a) an optical design to achieve imaging quality PSFs across the FoV, (b) an optomechanical design to obtain high accuracy optical alignment in conjugation with minimal instrument flexure and stress birefringence on optics (which can lead to variable instrumental polarization), and (c) an on-sky calibration routine to remove the strong polarimetric cross-talk induced instrumental polarization to obtain 0.1% across the FoV. All the subsystems have been designed carefully to meet the overall instrument performance goals. As of May 2024, all the instrument optical and mechanical subsystems have been assembled and are currently getting tested and integrated. The complete testing and characterization of the instrument in the lab is expected to be completed by August 2024. While the instrument was initially scheduled for commissioning in 2022, it got delayed due to various technical challenges; WALOP-South is now on schedule for commissioning in second half of 2024. In this paper, we will present (a) the design and development of the entire instrument and its major subsystems, focusing the instrument’s opto-mechanical design which has not been reported before, and (b) assembly and integration of the instrument in the lab and early results from lab characterization of the instrument’s optical performance.

Proceedings Article | 5 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

The Imaging x-ray polarimetry explorer (IXPE) at last!

Paolo Soffitta, Luca Baldini, Wayne Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephen Bongiorno, Niccolò Bucciantini, Enrico Costa, Michal Dovčiak, Steven Ehlert, Philip Kaaret, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Luca Latronico, Frédéric Marin, Alan Marscher, Herman Marshall, Giorgio Matt, Fabio Muleri, Stephen O'Dell, Juri Poutanen, Brian Ramsey, Roger Romani, Patrick Slane, Allyn Tennant, Roberto Turolla, Martin Weisskopf, Iván Agudo, Lucio Angelo Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Stefano Bianchi, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chiel-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alessandro Di Marco, Immacolata Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Javier Garcia, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana Jorstad, Vladimir Karas, Fabian Kislat, Takao Kitaguchi, Henric Krawczynski, Fabio La Monaca, Ioannis Liodakis, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Andrea Marinucci, Francesco Massaro, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, C.-Y. Ng, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George Pavlov, Abel Lawrence Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Simonetta Puccetti, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver Roberts, Carmelo Sgrò, Gloria Spandre, Douglas Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Nicholas Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey Tsygankov, Jacco Vink, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie, Silvia Zane

Proceedings Volume 12678, 1267803 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677296

KEYWORDS: Polarization, X-rays, Polarimetry, X-ray astronomy, Pulsars, X-ray imaging, Magnetism, Observational astronomy, Physics, X-ray detectors

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