Table 2: Polarization observations of comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR). Listed entries are date and time (UT), total integration time (IT) in seconds, filter, degree of polarization (P%) , error in polarization (Ep%), position angle ($\theta $) in equatorial plane, magnitude (normalized with respect to magnitude at 4845 band), and phase angle ($\alpha $) at the time of observations. Magnitude values are not listed for 17th March 2002 as the photometric errors were larger than 10%.

Date
Time(UT) IT Filter P% ${\epsilon}_p$% $\theta $ ${\epsilon}_{\theta}$ Mag Phase

23/11/2001
19 58 50 200 R 1.27 0.19 102 4 -3.24 14.90
23/11/2001 20 07 10 200 V 1.18 0.19 108 5 -3.34 14.91
23/11/2001 20 13 30 200 B 1.57 0.25 103 4 -2.80 14.92
23/11/2001 20 35 00 400 7000 2.72 0.80 104 8 -0.17 14.94
23/11/2001 20 46 40 450 4845 2.18 0.90 110 12 0.0 14.96
24/11/2001 20 45 30 200 R 1.01 0.18 94 5 -3.22 16.78
24/11/2001 20 53 30 250 V 1.03 0.21 102 6 -3.31 16.79
24/11/2001 21 04 10 450 B 0.75 0.30 90 11 -2.82 16.80
24/11/2001 21 16 00 500 7000 2.40 0.75 72 9 -0.16 16.82
24/11/2001 21 30 30 600 4845 1.49 0.80 93 15 0.0 16.84
25/11/2001 21 26 40 200 R 0.73 0.19 67 7 -3.24 19.07
25/11/2001 21 32 30 200 V 0.64 0.21 87 9 -3.34 19.08
25/11/2001 21 38 50 250 B 0.56 0.41 84 20 -2.95 19.09
25/11/2001 21 47 40 450 7000 1.30 0.86 83 19 -0.16 19.10
25/11/2001 22 08 30 600 4845 0.66 0.95 74 52 0.0 19.14
26/11/2001 22 11 30 200 B 0.39 0.85 177 52 -2.87 21.75
26/11/2001 22 15 50 150 7000 1.9 1.6 140 52 -0.26 21.76
26/11/2001 22 21 00 250 4845 2.7 2.7 148 52 0.0 21.77
26/11/2001 22 28 00 200 V 0.66 0.34 161 15 -3.5 21.78
26/11/2001 22 35 30 200 R 0.04 0.35 106 52 -3.27 21.79
16/03/2002 23 28 53 180 R 8.68 0.66 6 2 -3.21 47.36
16/03/2002 23 34 55 180 V 7.52 0.55 1 2 -3.55 47.36
16/03/2002 23 42 40 180 B 7.85 0.98 3 3 -2.95 47.35
16/03/2002 23 50 30 360 6840 10.8 2.2 172 6 -0.16 47.35
16/03/2002 23 59 59 300 4845 9.5 2.8 170 8 0.0 47.35
17/03/2002 00 11 50 300 5140 9.2 1.4 7 4 -0.83 47.35
17/03/2002 23 47 22 100 4845 13.3 3.5 3 10   47.03
17/03/2002 23 53 21 100 6840 12.3 3.5 19 8   47.03
18/03/2002 00 02 51 100 B 9.34 0.68 0 2   47.03
18/03/2002 00 08 00 60 V 6.88 0.57 7 2   47.03
18/03/2002 00 12 22 60 R 10.68 0.51 15 1   47.03
18/03/2002 00 16 31 60 5140 7.9 1.5 0 5   47.03


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