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MagAO-X 2025B Day 14: What you can’t see can’t hurt you Today’s blog post is going to highlight my raison d’être for working with MagAO-X: its new polarimeter! Polarimetric differential imaging The MagAO-X polarimeter was initially installed in spring of 2025, consisting of a rotating half-wave plate (HWP) and polarizing beamsplitter cube (PBS). The combination of these two optics enables MagAO-X to measure the angle of … https://xwcl.science/magao-x/magao-x-2025b-day-14-what-you-cant-see-cant-hurt-you/