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Deep polarization surveys at low radio frequencies are key to cosmic magnetism studies: Larger catalogs of polarized extragalactic sources and increased precision on Faraday rotation measures (RMs) make it possible to probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-08 S. Piras , C. Horellou , J. Conway , M. Thomasson , T. W. Shimwell , S. P. O'Sullivan , E. Carretti , V. Vacca , A. Bonafede , I. Prandoni

Aims - We report new Very Large Array polarimetric observations of Compact Steep-Spectrum (CSS) sources at 8.4, 15, and 23GHz. Methods - Using multi-frequency VLA observations we have derived sub-arcsecond resolution images of the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Mantovani , A. Rossetti , W. Junor , D. J. Saikia , C. J. Salter

The Jodrell Bank - VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS) of flat-spectrum sources yielded a catalog of 2118 compact radio sources in the northern sky. Those sources are being used as phase calibrators for many synthesis arrays. JVAS suffers from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. M. Wrobel , G. B. Taylor , P. C. Gregory

We present an analysis of the polarization of compact radio sources from six pointings of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 350 MHz with 35% coverage in lambda^2. After correcting for the off-axis instrumental polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Damon Farnsworth , Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown

The number of lenses found in the JVAS survey of flat-spectrum radio sources for gravitational lenses is consistent with statistical models of optical surveys for lensed quasars. The 90% confidence limit on Omega_0 in flat cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. S. Kochanek

A tendency for the axes of double-lobed radio quasars to be aligned with the electric vectors of optical polarization in the active galactic nuclei is well-known. However, the origin of the polarization and reason behind its correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gary D. Schmidt , Paul S. Smith

We present a polarization catalog of 533 extragalactic radio sources with 2.3 GHz total intensity above 420 mJy from the S-band Polarization All Sky Survey, S-PASS, with corresponding 1.4 GHz polarization information from the NRAO VLA Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Mehdi Lamee , Lawrence Rudnick , Jamie S. Farnes , Ettore Carretti , B. M. Gaensler , Marijke Haverkorn , Sergio Poppi

The radio polarization properties of the pulsar population are only superficially captured by the conventional picture of pulsar radio emission. We study the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 L. S. Oswald , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

This thesis reports the K-band polarizations of a representative sample of nine radio galaxies: seven 3C objects at 0.7 < z < 1.3, and two other distinctive sources. Careful consideration is given to the accurate measurement and `debiasing'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Gareth Leyshon

We present results from a circular polarisation survey for radio stars in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). RACS is a survey of the entire sky south of $\delta=+41^\circ$ being conducted with the Australian Square Kilometre Array…

This paper introduces a new program to find high-redshift radio galaxies in the southern hemisphere through ultra-steep spectrum (USS) selection. We define a sample of 234 USS radio sources with spectral indices alpha_408^843 < -1.0 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. Broderick , J. J. Bryant , R. W. Hunstead , E. M. Sadler , T. Murphy

A survey measuring quasar polarization vectors has been started in two regions towards the North and South Galactic Poles. Here, We review the discovery of significant correlations of orientations of polarization vectors over huge angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remi A. Cabanac , Damien Hutsemekers , Dominique Sluse , Herve Lamy

The polarization properties of radio sources powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) have attracted considerable attention because of the significance of magnetic fields in the physics of these sources, their use as probes of plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Ryan S. Johnston , Jeroen M. Stil , Ben W. Keller

Aims. We aim at studying the near infrared linear polarization signal of rapidly rotating ultracool dwarfs with spectral types ranging from M7 through T2 and projected rotational velocities vsini >= 30 km s^{-1}. All these dwarfs are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Paulo Alberto Miles-Páez , María Rosa Zapatero Osorio , Enric Pallé , Karla Peña Ramírez

We outline the science case for extended radio emission and polarization in galaxy clusters which would be a scientifically important area of research for an upcoming Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey. The survey would provide a major…

Constraining the polarisation properties of extragalactic point sources is a relevant task not only because they are one of the main contaminants for primordial cosmic microwave background B-mode detection if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , E. Goitia , C. González-Gutiérrez , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sánchez , F. J. de Cos

The new generations of multiwavelength radioheliographs with high spatial resolution will employ microwave imaging spectropolarimetry to recover flare topology and plasma parameters in the flare sources and along the wave propagation paths.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 A. Altyntsev , N. Meshalkina , I. Myshyakov , V. Pal`shin , G. Fleishman

We measure the angular correlation function of radio galaxies selected by the 843 MHz Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS). We find that the characteristic imprint of large-scale structure is clearly detectable, and that the survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Blake , Tom Mauch , Elaine M. Sadler

We report on near-infrared J- and H-band linear polarimetric photometry of eight ultracool dwarfs (two late-M, five L0-L7.5, and one T2.5) with known evidence for photometric variability due to dust clouds, anomalous red infrared colors, or…

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