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The availability of large datasets with stellar distance and polarization information will enable a tomographic reconstruction of the (plane-of-the-sky-projected) interstellar magnetic field in the near future. We demonstrate the…

A sample of 27 Planetary Nebulae (PNs) in the Small Magellanic Clouds (SMC) have been observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (HST/STIS) to determine their morphology, size, and the spatial variation of the ratios of…

We present a visible-infrared imaging study of young planetary nebula (PN) Hubble 12 (Hb 12; PN G111.8-02.8) obtained with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archival data and our own Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) measurements. Deep HST…

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Interaction with the Interstellar Medium (ISM) cannot be ignored in understanding planetary nebula (PN) evolution and shaping. In an effort to understand the range of shapes observed in the outer envelopes of PNe, we have run a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. J. Wareing , Albert A. Zijlstra , T. J. O'Brien

We study the circular polarization of the Mn I resonance lines at 279.56, 279.91, and 280.19 nm (hereafter, UV multiplet) by means of radiative transfer modeling. In 2019, the CLASP2 mission obtained unprecedented spectropolarimetric data…

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We present multiwavelength investigation of morphology, physical-environment, stellar contents and star formation activity in the vicinity of star-forming region Sh 2-100. It is found that the Sh 2-100 region contains seven HII regions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 M. R. Samal , A. K. Pandey , D. K. Ojha , S. K. Ghosh , V. K. Kulkarni , N. Kusakabe , M. Tamura , B. C. Bhatt , M. A. Thompson , R. Sagar

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

We present 850 $\mu$m polarized continuum observations carried out with the POL-2 polarimeter mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) towards NGC 7023 located in the Cepheus Flare region. NGC 7023 is a reflection nebula powered…

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We present the X-ray polarization observation of G21.5-0.9, a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2023, with a total livetime of approximately 837 ks. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Niccolò Di Lalla , Nicola Omodei , Niccolò Bucciantini , Jack T. Dinsmore , Nicolò Cibrario , Stefano Silvestri , Josephine Wong , Patrick Slane , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Roger W. Romani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Stephen Chi-Yung Ng , Miltiadis Michailidis , Yi-Jung Yang , Fei Xie , Martin C. Weisskopf , Philip Kaaret , Iván Agudo , L. A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting J. Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Fre'de'ric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgro , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

Faraday rotation occurs along every line of sight in the Galaxy; Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis allows a three-dimensional representation of the interstellar magnetic field. This study uses data from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey,…

Observations of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (SMM) polarized emission are used to study magnetic fields and dust grains in dense regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). These observations place constraints on models of molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 John E. Vaillancourt

Neutron stars generate powerful winds of relativistic particles that form bright synchrotron nebulae around them. Polarimetry provides a unique insight into the geometry and magnetic configuration of the wind, but high-energy measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Forot , Philippe Laurent , I A. Grenier , C. Gouiffes , F. Lebrun

We present measurements of circular polarization from rotational spectral lines of molecular species in Orion KL, most notably 12CO (J=2 - 1), obtained at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory with the Four-Stokes-Parameter Spectra Line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Houde , Talayeh Hezareh , Scott Jones , Fereshte Rajabi

The strengths of magnetic fields in interstellar gas clouds are obtained through observations of the circular polarization of spectral line radiation. Irregularities in this magnetic field may be present due to turbulence, waves or perhaps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. D. Watson , D. S. Wiebe , R. M. Crutcher

Mean pulse profiles and polarization properties are presented for nine southern pulsars. The observations were made using the Parkes radio telescope at frequencies near 1330 MHz; three of the nine pulsars were also observed at 660 MHz. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R N Manchester , J L Han

We present positions, kinematics, and the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) for 35 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the nearest starburst galaxy IC10 extending out to 3kpc from the galaxy's centre. We take advantage of the deep imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Denise R. Gonçalves , Ana M. Teodorescu , Alan Alves-Brito , Roberto H. Méndez , Laura Margini

The polarisation dependence of the intensity of elastic magnetic scattering from \ymno\ single crystals has been measured at 25 K in magnetic fields between 1 and 9 T. A significant polarisation dependence was observed in the intensities of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-21 P. J. Brown , T. Chatterji

We report on X-ray polarization measurements of the extra-galactic Crab-like PSR B0540-69 and its Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using a ~850 ks Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) exposure. The PWN is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-06 Fei Xie , Josephine Wong , Fabio La Monaca , Roger W. Romani , Jeremy Heyl , Philip Kaaret , Alessandro Di Marco , Niccolò Bucciantini , Kuan Liu , Chi-Yung Ng , Niccolò Di Lalla , Martin C. Weisskopf , Enrico Costa , Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Matteo Bachetti , Maura Pilia , John Rankin , Sergio Fabiani , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Wynn C. G. Ho , Alice K. Harding , Keith C. Gendreau , Zaven Arzoumanian

We report the observations of the radio shell of the supernova remnant (SNR) G310.6-1.6 at 943 MHz from the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) and the Polarization Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM) surveys by using the…

[Abridged] We carried out optical polarimetry of five dense cores, (IRAM 04191, L1521F, L328, L673-7, and L1014) which are found to harbour VeLLO. This study was conducted mainly to understand the role played by the magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-06 A. Soam , G. Maheswar , Chang Won Lee , Sami Dib , H C Bhatt , Motohide Tamura , Gwanjeong Kim