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Faraday rotation measure (RM) synthesis is an important tool to study and analyze galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. Since there is a Fourier relation between the Faraday dispersion function and the polarized radio emission, full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Feng Li , Shea Brown , Tim J. Cornwell , Frank de Hoog

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis requires the recovery of the Faraday Dispersion Function (FDF) from measurements restricted to limited wavelength ranges, which is an ill-conditioned deconvolution problem. Here, we propose a novel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Andrecut

Faraday tomography (or rotation measure synthesis) is a procedure to convert linear polarization spectra into the Faraday dispersion function, which provides us with unique information of magneto-ionic media along the line of sight.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Kazunori Akiyama , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Ryosuke Yamaguchi , Shiro Ikeda , Keitaro Takahashi

Rotation measure synthesis allows the estimation of Faraday dispersion via a Fourier transform and is the primary tool to probe cosmic magnetic fields. We show this can be considered mathematically equivalent to the one dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

RM Synthesis was recently developed as a new tool for the interpretation of polarized emission data in order to separate the contributions of different sources lying on the same line of sight. Until now the method was mainly applied to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-05-04 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

Measurements of the polarization of radio emission are subject to a number of depolarization effects such as bandwidth depolarization, which is caused by the averaging effect of a finite channel bandwidth combined with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Maxwell A. Fine , Cameron L. Van Eck , Luke Pratley

Modern radio interferometers enable high-resolution polarization imaging, offering insights into cosmic magnetism through Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis. Traditional 2+1D RM synthesis treats the 2D spatial and 1D spectral transforms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Victor Gustafsson , Marcus Brüggen , Cyril Tasse , Torsten Enßlin , Shane O'Sullivan , Francesco de Gasperin

Understanding origin and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields requires knowledge of magnetic fields in different extragalactic environments. In this context, a powerful tool is the statistical analysis of the Faraday effect on the…

Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cathy Horellou , Andrew Fletcher

We extend the rotation measure work of Burn (1966) to the cases of limited sampling of lambda squared space and non-constant emission spectra. We introduce the rotation measure transfer function (RMTF), which is an excellent predictor of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Brentjens , A. G. de Bruyn

There is evidence that magnetized material along the line of sight to distant quasars is detectable in the polarization properties of the background sources. The polarization properties appear to be correlated with the presence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Kwang Seong Kim , Simon J. Lilly , Francesco Miniati , M. L. Bernet , Rainer Beck , S. P. O'Sullivan , B. M. Gaensler

Faraday rotation contains information about the magnetic field structure along the line of sight and is an important instrument in the study of cosmic magnetism. Traditional Faraday spectrum deconvolution methods such as RMCLEAN face…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Victor Gustafsson , Marcus Brüggen , Torsten Enßlin

A joint action of depth and bandwidth depolarization in the interstellar medium is considered using a model of N homogeneous synchrotron layers with Faraday rotation. The bandwidth depolarization can be used in multifrequency polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. N. Vinyajkin

Faraday tomography through broadband polarimetry can provide crucial information on magnetized astronomical objects, such as quasars, galaxies, or galaxy clusters. However, the limited wavelength coverage of the instruments requires that we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Keitaro Takahashi

In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the Faraday depth (FD) spectrum and its clean components obtained through the application of the commonly used technique of Faraday rotation measure synthesis to analyze spectro-polarimetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-21 Aritra Basu , Andrew Fletcher , S. A. Mao , Blakesley Burkhart , Rainer Beck , Dominic Schnitzeler

Faraday tomography, the study of the distribution of extended polarized emission by strength of Faraday rotation, is a powerful tool for studying magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of our Galaxy and nearby galaxies. The strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Cameron L. Van Eck

Polarized synchrotron emission from multiple Faraday depths can be separated by calculating the complex Fourier transform of the Stokes' parameters as a function of the wavelength squared, known as Faraday Synthesis. As commonly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Lawrence Rudnick , William D. Cotton

Faraday tomography is a new method of the study of cosmic magnetic fields enabled by broadband low-frequency radio observations. By Faraday tomography, it is possible to obtain the Faraday dispersion function which contains information on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Keitaro Takahashi
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