Optical linear polarization measurements of quasars obtained with the 3.6 m telescope at the La Silla Observatory⋆,⋆⋆
1 Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, B5c, 4000 Liège, Belgium
e-mail: hutsemekers@astro.ulg.ac.be
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
Received: 24 July 2017
Accepted: 29 August 2017
We report 192 previously unpublished optical linear polarization measurements of quasars obtained in April 2003, April 2007, and October 2007 with the European Southern Observatory Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (EFOSC2) instrument attached to the 3.6 m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Each quasar was observed once. Among the 192 quasars, 89 have a polarization degree p ≥ 0.6%, 18 have p ≥ 2%, and two have p ≥ 10%.
Key words: quasars: general / polarization
Based on observations made with the ESO 3.6 m Telescope at the La Silla Observatory under program ID 071.B-0460, 079.A-0625, 080.A-0017.
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