Working Days!!

Today and last weekend has been a bit of a blur. There's been lots of plotting (figures), dinners and talking, and things melding together. A big lack of sleep. But, I managed to get that giant paper submitted and an abstract in to the big polarimetry conference in July. It's going to be a good one....

Sonnetts tres-de-mayo.



The conference list is here. Just click on "Participants" And the abstract:

Linear spectropolarimetry has great potential to probe the dynamic circumstellar environments of many stars, but there are few observations to date. A very large number of high precision spectropolarimetric observations of Herbig Ae/Be, Classical Be and other emission-line stars have been collected on 117 nights of observations with the HiVIS and ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeters. More than half the HAe/Be stars and a third of the Be stars showed systematic variations in the linear polarization amplitude and direction as a function of time and wavelength in the H-alpha line. Surprisingly, in most HAe/Be stars this polarization effect is not coincident with the H-alpha emission peak but is detected only in the absorptive part of the line profile and varies with the absorption. Some have very complex morphologies and many amplitudes of 0.3% to 1.5%. A smaller number of more morphologically complex detections are also seen in the Be/emission-line stars. These detections are largely inconsistent with traditional scattering models and require new interpretation. This extremely large observing campaign will be presented with comparisons between stellar classes and some of the future directions for interpreting these unique signatures.