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Faraday Rotation-Conversion is the simultaneous rotation of all three Stokes polarization parameters $Q$, $U$, $V$ as an electromagnetic wave propagates through a magnetized plasma. In this regime the Faraday plasma screen is characterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Andrei Gruzinov , Yuri Levin

We describe singularities in the distribution of polarized intensity as a function of Faraday depth (i.e. the Faraday spectrum) caused by line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field reversals. We call these features Faraday caustics because of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 M. R. Bell , H. Junklewitz , T. A. Enßlin

We present a detailed study of the Faraday depth structure of four bright (> 1 Jy), strongly polarized, unresolved, radio-loud quasars. The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) was used to observe these sources with 2 GHz of…

An analysis of structure in rotation measure (RM) across the sky based on the RM catalog of Taylor et al. (2009) is presented. Several resolved RM structures are identified with structure in the local ISM, including radio loops I, II, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor , C. Sunstrum

We probe the three-dimensional geometry of the large-scale Galactic magnetic field within 1 kpc of the Sun using the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS) of the Northern Sky (DRAGONS).…

We present results of interferometric polarization observations of the recently discovered magnetar J1745-2900 in the vicinity of the Galactic center. The observations were made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) on 21 February…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 E. V. Kravchenko , W. D. Cotton , F. Yusef-Zadeh , Y. Y. Kovalev

We present multi-frequency polarization observations of the diffuse radio synchrotron background modulated by Faraday rotation. No total intensity is observed, indicating that total intensity does not vary on scales below approximately a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

Linear polarization of diffuse Galactic emission is a signature of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of our Galaxy. Observations at high frequencies are less affected by Faraday depolarization than those at lower frequencies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Xiao , J. L. Han , W. Reich , X. H. Sun , R. Wielebinski , P. Reich , H. Shi , O. Lochner

Using the numerical data of MHD simulation for AGN jets based on our ``sweeping magnetic twist model'', we calculated the Faraday rotation measure (FRM) and the Stokes parameters to compare with observations. We propose that the FRM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Uchida , H. Kigure , S. Hirose , M. Nakamura , R. Cameron

Radio polarimetry at decimetre wavelengths is the principal source of information on the Galactic magnetic field. The diffuse polarized emission is strongly influenced by Faraday rotation in the magneto-ionic medium and rotation measure is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Wolleben , T. L. Landecker , G. J. Hovey , R. Messing , O. S. Davison , N. L. House , K. H. M. S. Somaratne , I. Tashev

We have analyzed analytically the Faraday rotation of an electromagnetic wave for magnetoactive thin metallic film with a nanostructured surface profile. Periodical as well as random surface profiles were considered. The plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Zhyrair Gevorkian , Vladimir Gasparian

Depolarization of diffuse radio synchrotron emission is classified in terms of wavelength-independent and wavelength-dependent depolarization in the context of regular magnetic fields and of both isotropic and anisotropic turbulent magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 Carl Shneider , Marijke Haverkorn , Andrew Fletcher , Anvar Shukurov

We present a broadband spectro-polarimetric analysis of 1,565 polarized radio sources from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS-DR2) RM Grid catalogue. This study uses frequency-dependent Stokes Q and U spectra across the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Rudra Sinha , Abhik Ghosh

(Abridged) This paper introduces the formalism which connects between rotation measure ($\RM$) measurements for extragalactic sources and the cosmological magnetic field power spectrum. It is shown that the amplitude and shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tsafrir Kolatt

We analyse the observational signatures of galactic magnetic fields that are self-consistently generated in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium through turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and differential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-06 Yann Carteret , Abhijit B. Bendre , Jennifer Schober

Faraday tomography is a novel method to probe 3-dimensional structure of magnetic fields of polarized radio sources. In this paper, we investigate Faraday dispersion function (FDF) of disk galaxies extending a simple analytic model of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Haruya Eguchi , Masaki Suzuki , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi

Diagnostics of polarized emission provide us with valuable information on the Galactic magnetic field and the state of turbulence in the interstellar medium, which cannot be obtained from synchrotron intensity alone. In Paper I (Herron et…

Using one-dimensional models, we show that a helical magnetic field with an appropriate sign of helicity can compensate the Faraday depolarization resulting from the superposition of Faraday-rotated polarization planes from a spatially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Axel Brandenburg , Rodion Stepanov

Multifrequency polarimetric observations made with the Very Long Baseline Array of the quasar 3C216 reveal the presence of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) in excess of 2000 rad/m**2 in the source rest frame, in the arc of emission located…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Venturi , G. B. Taylor

Radio broadband spectro-polarimetric observations are sensitive to the spatial fluctuations of the Faraday depth (FD) within the telescope beam. Such FD fluctuations are referred to as "Faraday complexity", and can unveil small-scale…