Axions and polarisation of quasars
Astrophysics
2014-01-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We present results showing that, thanks to axion-photon mixing in external magnetic fields, it is actually possible to produce an effect similar to the one needed to explain the large-scale coherent orientations of quasar polarisation vectors in visible light that have been observed in some regions of the sky.
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@article{arxiv.0805.3946,
title = {Axions and polarisation of quasars},
author = {A. Payez and J. R. Cudell and D. Hutsemekers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3946},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Contributed to "Three days of Strong Interactions & Astrophysics, Heidelberg-Liege-Paris-Wroclaw", 6/3/2008-8/3/2008, Spa, Belgium. To be published in AIP proceedings