POLAMI: Polarimetric Monitoring of AGN at Millimetre Wavelengths - I. The programme, calibration and calibrator data products

Emmanuel Lellouch (Observatoire de Paris, France) is kindly acknowledged for technical support on the Mars model and its calculations for the time spanned by the POLAMI observations. We gratefully acknowledge Emmanouil Angelakis (MPIfR, Germany) for his careful revision and useful comments to improve this manuscript. We appreciate the support by the operator team of the IRAM 30-m telescope. This paper is based on observations carried out with the IRAM 30-m Telescope and analysed with GILDAS software. IRAM is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany) and IGN (Spain). IA acknowledges support by a Ramon y Cajal grant of the Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain. The research at the IAA-CSIC was supported in part by the MINECO through grants AYA2016-80889-P, AYA2013-40825-P and AYA2010-14844, and by the regional government of Andalucia through grant P09-FQM-4784.