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We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

We report observations of the linear polarization of a sample of 49 nearby bright stars measured to sensitivities of between ~1 and 4 x 10^-6. The majority of stars in the sample show measurable polarization, but most polarizations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy Bailey , P. W. Lucas , J. H. Hough

A VLA Sky Survey of the extragalactic sky at S band (2-4 GHz) with polarization information can uniquely probe the magneto-ionic medium in a wide range of astrophysical environments over cosmic time. For a shallow all-sky survey, we expect…

We have developed a method for recovering polarization structures from the NRAO Very Large Array Sky Survey (NVSS) on larger angular scales than the nominal 15 arc minute survey limit. The technique depends on the existence of smaller scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown

The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory Deep Field polarization study has been matched with the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic survey of the European Large Area Infrared Space Observatory Survey North 1 field. We have used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julie K. Banfield , Samuel J. George , A. Russ Taylor , Jeroen M. Stil , Roland Kothes , Douglas Scott

Observations of the optical polarization of NGC 4151 in 1997-2003 show variations of an order of magnitude in the polarized flux while the polarization position angle remains constant. The amplitude of variability of the polarized flux is…

In a series of paper, it has been shown that the distribution of polarisation position angles for visible light from quasars is not random in extremely large regions of the sky. As explained in a recent article, the measurement of vanishing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-09 A. Payez

Highly polarized QSOs discovered in the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) have been observed to determine the source(s) of optical polarization in this near-infrared color-selected sample. Broad emission lines are observed in the polarized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul S. Smith , Gary D. Schmidt , Dean C. Hines , Craig B. Foltz

Full polarization measurements of 1665 and 1667-MHz OH masers at sites of massive star formation have been made with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. Here we present the resulting spectra for 104 northerly sources. For more than 20 masers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-12 J. L. Caswell , J. A. Green , C. J. Phillips

In the past few decades, the localization literature has seen many models attempting to characterize the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) bias error commonly experienced in range measurements. These models have either been based on specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Christopher E. O'Lone , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

We consider the effect of spatial correlations on sources of polarized electromagnetic radiation. The sources, assumed to be monochromatic, are constructed out of dipoles aligned along a line such that their orientation is correlated with…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhishek Agarwal , Pankaj Jain , Jagdish Rai

We examine scatter and bias in weak lensing selected clusters, employing both an analytic model of dark matter haloes and numerical mock data of weak lensing cluster surveys. We pay special attention to effects of the diversity of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takashi Hamana , Masamune Oguri , Masato Shirasaki , Masanori Sato

We present new results on the clustering and three-dimensional distribution of radio galaxies from the Texas-Oxford NVSS Structure (TONS) survey. The TONS survey was constructed to look at the distribution of radio galaxies in a region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Kate Brand , Steve Rawlings , Joe Tufts , Gary Hill

The low-frequency polarisation properties of radio sources are poorly studied, particularly in statistical samples. However, the new generation of low-frequency telescopes, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA; the precursor for the…

We investigate the origin of the large clustering signal detected in the angular distribution of the radio sources in the TGSS catalog. To do so, we cross-correlate the angular position of the radio sources with the Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Giulia Piccirilli , Marina Migliaccio , Enzo Branchini , Arianna Dolfi

We report on full-Stokes L-band observations of 98 MeerKAT calibration sources. Linear polarization is detected in 71 objects above a fractional level of 0.2\%. We identify ten sources with strong fractional linear polarization and low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-24 A. R. Taylor , L. S. Legodi

We introduce several coordinate invariant statistical procedures in order to test for local alignment of polarizations. A large scale alignment of optical polarizations from distant QSOs has recently been observed by \huts and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pankaj Jain , Gaurav Narain , S. Sarala

We present results of multifrequency polarimetric VLBA observations of 34 compact radio sources. The observations are part of a large survey undertaken to identify CSOs Observed in the Northern Sky (COINS). Based on VLBI continuum surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Peck , G. B. Taylor

Submillimeter dust polarization measurements of a sample of 50 star-forming regions, observed with the SMA and the CSO covering pc-scale clouds to mpc-scale cores, are analyzed in order to quantify the magnetic field importance. The…

The polarization position angles (PA) of pulsar radio emission occupy a distribution that can be much wider than what is expected from the average linear polarization and the off-pulse instrumental noise. Contrary to our limited…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark M. McKinnon