Authors
                Mr.
            
                        Héctor Canovas
            
  Date and time
                                    13 Jun 2011 - 00:00 Europe/London
                            Address
                                    Aula
Talk language
                                    English
                            Serie number
                                    1
                            Description
                                    ExPo is an imaging polarimeter that has been built in Utrecht University. ExPo works in the visible, and it combines the dual-beam technique, together with very short exposure times and a high polarization sensitivity. After four successful campaigns at the William Herschel Telescope, we have obtained polarization images of circumstellar environments around T Tau's and Herbig Ae's stars, evolved (post-AGB) stars and planets like Venus and Saturn. Our results prove the utility of imaging polarimetry to characterize faint structures around very different objects. In this talk I will go through the instrument details, and I will show some of our science results.