) and Dust Continuum
Emissions from Comet Hale-Bopp with the WISP Sounding Rocket
Photopolarimetric Observations of CI(1657 ) and Dust Continuum
Emissions from Comet Hale-Bopp with the WISP Sounding Rocket
W. M. Harris, K. H. Nordsieck, F. Scherb, E. J. Mierkiewicz (Uinversity of Wisconsin-Madison)
We report on photopolarimetric observations of resonant emission from
Carbon [CI(1657 )] and scattered solar continuum from dust at 2800
using the Wisconsin Imaging Survey Polarimeter (WISP). The WISP is a
wide field ( 
x 
) sounding rocket telescope originally
designed for polarimetric observations of diffuse galactic light at a
1% photometric level. We will describe the initial results of
our launch on 8 April, 1997 from the White Sands Missile range,
including a discussion of the images obtained, and the results from
supporting visible/near-infrared measurements of gas and dust from
the Burrell Schmidt telescope, and spectroscopic observations
of the CI(9850 ) metastable line from the McMath Pierce Solar
Telescope.
This research was supported by NASA grant NAG5-5091 and NSF grant
AST-9615625.