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We present a new sample of Parkes half-Jansky flat-spectrum radio sources having made a particular effort to find any previously unidentified sources. The sample contains 323 sources selected according to a flux limit of 0.5 Jy at 2.7 GHz,…

As radio polarised emission from astrophysical objects traverse through foreground magnetised plasma, the physical conditions along the lines of sight are encrypted in the form of Rotation Measure (RM). We performed broadband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-10 Yik Ki Ma , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Carl Heiles , Jennifer West

Various compositions of sparsely polarized antenna arrays are proposed in this paper to estimate the direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) and polarizations of multiple coherent sources. These polarized antenna arrays are composed of one of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-21 Xin Yuan

The FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) survey now covers 1550 square degrees of sky where $07^{h}16 < \alpha < 17^{h}40$ and $28^{\circ}.3 < \delta < 42^{\circ}$. This yields a catalog of 138,665 sources above the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. M. Cress , D. J. Helfand , R. H. Becker , M. D. Gregg , R. L. White

I discuss the physics of polarization in models with early reionization. For sufficiently high optical depth to recombination the polarization is boosted on large scales while it is suppressed on smaller scales. New peaks appear in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matias Zaldarriaga

High precision polarization measurements open new opportunities for the study of the magnetic field structure as traced by polarimetric measurements of the interstellar dust emission. Polarization parameters suffer from bias in the presence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 D. Alina , L. Montier , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard , F. Levrier , E. Abdikamalov

We develop two algorithms, based on maximum likelihood (ML) inference, for estimating the parameters of polarized radio sources which emit at a single rotation measure (RM), e.g., pulsars. These algorithms incorporate the flux density…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , K. J. Lee

We measure the autocorrelation function of galaxies in the IRAS Point Source Catalogue galaxy redshift (PSCz) survey and investigate its dependence on the far-infrared colour and absolute luminosity of the galaxies. We find that the PSCz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Hawkins , S. Maddox , E. Branchini , W. Saunders

We present the results of our follow-up observation program of gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. 26 blazars and 39 sources unidentified at other wavelengths were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mai Fujiwara , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Nobuyuki Ienaka

The nature of coherent radio emission is still challenging even after more than half a century of pulsar discovery, but it is generally a consensus that single-pulse observations are essential for probing the magnetospheric dynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Shunshun Cao , Yanjun Guo , Jinchen Jiang , Kejia Lee , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

We performed statistical and event studies of linear polarization in the H$\alpha$ line during solar flares. The statistical study revealed that, among 71 H$\alpha$ flares analyzed, including 64 GOES flares, only one event shows significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Tomoko Kawate , Yoichiro Hanaoka

We present polarization pulse profiles for 56 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) monitored by the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) collaboration using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The observations centered at…

We present details of a new sample of radio-loud quasars drawn from 0.013 sr of the 7C Redshift Survey. This sample is small (21 quasars) but complete in that every object with an unresolved nucleus and/or broad emission lines with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Chris J. Willott , Steve Rawlings , Katherine M. Blundell , Mark Lacy

This is the second of two papers describing the second data release (DR2) of the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) at 1.4 GHz. In Paper I we detailed our data reduction and analysis procedures, and presented catalogues of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 C. A. Hales , R. P. Norris , B. M. Gaensler , E. Middelberg

Polarized radio emission of RRAT J1854+0306 is investigated with single pulses using Five-hundred-meter-Aperture Spherical Telescope. Its emission is characterized by nulls, narrow and weak pulses, and occasional wide and intense bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Qi Guo , Minzhi Kong , P. F. Wang , Y. Yan , D. J. Zhou

We report on the first results of the POLAMI program, a simultaneous 3.5 and 1.3mm full-Stokes-polarisation monitoring of a sample of 36 of the brightest active galactic nuclei in the northern sky with the IRAM 30m Telescope. Through a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Ivan Agudo , Clemens Thum , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Sol N. Molina , Carolina Casadio , Jose L. Gomez

We present here a direct comparison of the polarisation position angle (PA) profiles of 17 pulsars, observed at 1.4 and 3.1 GHz. Absolute PAs are obtained at each frequency, permitting a measurement of the difference in the profiles. By…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston

The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400 - 750 nm). Time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 Agnieszka Słowikowska , Gottfried Kanbach , Michael Kramer , Alexander Stefanescu

We present radio polarimetry results for nine Southern pulsars. Six of the nine are young, with characteristic ages less than 100 kyr and high spin-down luminosities. All six show significant linear polarization, and we confirm a previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Crawford , V. M. Kaspi , R. N. Manchester

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background over 75\% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220~GHz. This paper…