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We report multi-frequency circular polarization measurements for the radio source 0056-00 taken at the Effelsberg 100-m radiotelescope. The data reduction is based on a new calibration procedure that allows the contemporary measurement of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Cenacchi , A. Kraus , K. -H. Mack

We have observed a sample of 64 small diameter sources towards the central -6 degree < l< 6 degree, -2 degree < b < 2 degree of the Galaxy with the aim of studying the Faraday rotation measure near the Galactic Centre (GC) region. All the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

We present Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) values derived at L- and P-band as well as some 60 Stokes-parameter profiles, both determined from our longstanding Arecibo dual-frequency pulsar polarimetry programs. Many of the RM measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 Joanna Rankin , Arun Venkataraman , Joel M. Weisberg , Alice P. Curtin

The study of the linear and circular polarization in AGN allows one to gain detailed information about the properties of the magnetic fields in these objects. However, especially the observation of circular polarization (CP) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Cenacchi , A. Kraus , A. Orfei , K. -H. Mack

We present the results of a parsec-scale polarization study of three FRI radio galaxies - 3C66B, 3C78 and 3C264 - obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array at 5, 8 and 15 GHz. Parsec-scale polarization has been detected in a large number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Kharb , D. C. Gabuzda , C. P. O'Dea , P. Shastri , S. A. Baum

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 completed observations with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope to measure the polarised emission from a complete sample of Compact Steep-Spectrum sources. We observed the sources at four different frequencies. We complemented these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Mantovani , K. -H. Mack , F. M. Montenegro-Montes , A. Rossetti , A. Kraus

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 report on sensitive 21cm and 11cm polarization surveys of the Galactic plane carried out with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope at arcmin angular resolution and some related work. Highly structured polarized emission is seen along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 W. Reich , E. Fuerst , P. Reich , R. Wielebinski , M. Wolleben

We present a pipeline that allows recovering reliable information for all four Stokes parameters with high accuracy. Its novelty relies on the treatment of the instrumental effects already prior to the computation of the Stokes parameters…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 I. Myserlis , E. Angelakis , A. Kraus , C. A. Liontas , N. Marchili , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , V. Karamanavis , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

We present a method to simulate the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources at microwave frequencies. Polarization measurements of nearly 2x10^6 sources at 1.4 GHz are provided by the NVSS survey. Using this catalogue and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tucci , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , L. Toffolatti , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , G. De Zotti

We have analyzed the polarization properties of pulsars at an observing frequency of 4.9 GHz. Together with low frequency data, we are able to trace polarization profiles over more than three octaves into an interesting frequency regime. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. von Hoensbroech , J. Kijak , A. Krawczyk

The measurement of radio polarization may be regarded as a three-dimensional statistical problem because the large photon densities at radio wavelengths allow the simultaneous detection of the three Stokes parameters which completely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark M. McKinnon

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

A radio continuum survey at medium Galactic latitudes with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope is being carried out at a centre frequency of 1.4 GHz in total power and linear polarization. Areas up to +/- 20 degree of Galactic latitude are now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Uyaniker , E. Fuerst , W. Reich , P. Reich , R. Wielebinski

We present a broadband spectropolarimetric survey of 563 discrete, mostly unresolved radio sources between 1.3 \& 2.0 GHz using data taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We have used rotation measure synthesis to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 C. S. Anderson , B. M. Gaensler , I. J. Feain , T. M. O. Franzen

We investigate the statistical properties of the polarized emission of extragalactic radio sources and estimate their contribution to the power spectrum of polarization fluctuations in the microwave region. The basic ingredients of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Mesa , C. Baccigalupi , G. De Zotti , L. Gregorini , K. -H. Mack , M. Vigotti , U. Klein

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 present five epochs of 15 GHz VLBA observations of 13 AGN. These observations were specially calibrated to detect parsec scale circular polarization and our calibration techniques are discussed and analyzed in detail. We obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. C. Homan , J. F. C. Wardle

An understanding of cosmic magnetism requires converting the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources into the rest-frame in which the corresponding polarized emission or Faraday rotation is produced. Motivated by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-02 J. S. Farnes , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti
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