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Radio sources are often polarized. Accurate measurement of simply the flux density of a radio source requires a basic understanding of polarization and its measurement techniques. We provide an introductory, heuristic discussion of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl Heiles

In most pulsars, the circularly polarized component, Stokes $V$, is weak in the average pulse profiles. By forming the average profile of $|V|$ from single pulses we can distinguish between pulsars where $V$ is weak in the individual pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

We present deep VLA observations of the polarization of radio sources in the GOODS-N field at 1.4 GHz at resolutions of 1.6" and 10". At 1.6", we find that the peak flux cumulative number count distribution is N($>$p) $\sim$ 45 *…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-31 Lawrence Rudnick , Frazer Owen

Homan & Lister (2006) have recently published circular-polarization (CP) detections for 34 objects in the MOJAVE sample - a set of bright, compact AGN being monitored by the Very Long Baseline Array at 15 GHz. We report the detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. C. Gabuzda , V. M. Vitrishchak , M. Mahmud , S. P. O'Sullivan

Measurements of the polarized radiation often reveal specific physical properties of emission sources, such as strengths and orientations of magnetic fields offered by synchrotron radiation and Zeeman line emission, and the electron density…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-03 Yen-Lin Chen , Tzihong Chiueh , Hsiao-Feng Teng

We present high sensitivity ($\sigma_P \simeq 0.6\,$mJy) polarimetric observations in seven bands, from $2.1$ to $38\,$GHz, of a complete sample of $104$ compact extragalactic radio sources brighter than $200\,$mJy at $20\,$GHz.…

X-ray polarimetry promises to deliver unique information about the geometry of the inner accretion flow of astrophysical black holes and the nature of matter and electromagnetism in and around neutron stars. In this paper, we discuss the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Kislat , B. Clark , M. Beilicke , H. Krawczynski

We have observed 123 pulsars with periods longer than 0.1 seconds in the Meterwavelength Single-pulse Polarimetric Emission Survey. In this work a detailed study of polarization behaviour of these pulsars have been carried out. We were able…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Rahul Basu

We present RadioAstron Space VLBI imaging observations of the BL Lac object S5 0716+71 made on January 3-4 2015 at a frequency of 22 GHz (wavelength $\lambda=1.3$ cm). The observations were made in the framework of the AGN Polarization Key…

We use the integrated polarized radio emission at 1.4 GHz ($\Pi_{\rm 1.4\,GHz}$) from a large sample of AGN (796 sources at redshifts $z<0.7$) to study the large-scale magnetic field properties of radio galaxies in relation to the host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Shane P. O'Sullivan , B. M. Gaensler , M. A. Lara-López , S. van Velzen , J. K. Banfield , J. S. Farnes

A deep radio observation of the A2255 cluster of galaxies has been carried out at 1.4 GHz with the Very Large Array synthesis telescope. Thanks to the excellent (u,v) coverage and sensitivity achieved by our observation, the low brightness…

Full control of the ellipticity of broadband pulses of THz radiation, from linear to left- or right-handed circular polarization, was demonstrated via a 4-pixel photoconductive emitter with an integrated achromatic waveplate. Excellent…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-04 C. D. W. Mosley , J. Deveikis , J. Lloyd-Hughes

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

The anisotropic nature of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to be responsible for the observational differences between type-1 (pole-on) and type-2 (edge-on) nearby Seyfert-like galaxies. In this picture, the detection of emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-10 F. Marin

Remnant radio galaxies represent the dying phase of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). Large samples of remnant radio galaxies are important for quantifying the radio galaxy life cycle. The remnants of radio-loud AGN can be identified…

Current $\gamma$-ray telescopes suffer from a gap in sensitivity in the energy range between 100keV and 100MeV, and no polarisation measurement has ever been done on cosmic sources above 1MeV. Past and present e$^+$e$^-$ pair telescopes are…

Cathodoluminescence measurements on single InGaN/GaN quantum dots (QDs) are reported. Complex spectra with up to five emission lines per QD are observed. The lines are polarized along the orthogonal crystal directions [1 1 -2 0] and [-1 1 0…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-14 M. Winkelnkemper , R. Seguin , S. Rodt , A. Schliwa , L. Reissmann , A. Strittmatter , A. Hoffmann , D. Bimberg

Two key results are presented in this paper. First, equipartition Doppler factors have been estimated for a sample of 105 sources with previously estimated inverse Compton Doppler factors. The different categories of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 R. A. Daly , E. J. Guerra , A. Guijosa

We present results from simulations of the extragalactic polarized sky at 1.4 GHz. As the basis for our polarization models, we use a semi-empirical simulation of the extragalactic total intensity (Stokes I) continuum sky developed at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-13 S. P. O'Sullivan , J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor , R. Ricci , J. K. Grant , K. Shorten