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Rotation Measure synthesis (RM synthesis) of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations at 2 m wavelength of the FAN region at l=137deg, b=+7deg shows the morphology of structures in the ionized interstellar medium. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Iacobelli , Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert

Accurate phase extraction from sinusoidal signals is a crucial task in various signal processing applications. While prior research predominantly addresses the case of asynchronous sampling with unknown signal frequency, this study focuses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Emmanuel Dervieux , Florian Tilquin , Alexis Bisiaux , Wilfried Uhring

The estimation of the polarization $P$ of extragalactic compact sources in Cosmic Microwave Background images is a very important task in order to clean these images for cosmological purposes -- as, for example, to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 D. Herranz , F. Argüeso , L. Toffolatti , A. Manjón-García , M. López-Caniego

Detection thresholds in polarized intensity and polarization bias correction are investigated for surveys where the polarization information is obtained from RM synthesis. Considering unresolved sources with a single rotation measure, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Samuel J. George , Jeroen M. Stil , Ben W. Keller

Quantifying the amount of polarization is crucial for understanding and studying political polarization in political and social systems. Several methods are used commonly to measure polarization in social networks by purely inspecting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ali Salloum , Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Mikko Kivelä

Polarization observations using modern radio telescopes cover large numbers of frequency channels over broad bandwidths, and require advanced techniques to extract reliable scientific results. We present RM-Tools, analysis software for…

In this letter, a methodology is proposed to improve the scattering powers obtained from model-based decomposition using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data. The novelty of this approach lies in utilizing the intrinsic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-05-27 D. Ratha , M. Surendar , A. Bhattacharya

The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) Rotation Measure (RM) catalogue has enabled numerous studies in cosmic magnetism, and will continue being a unique dataset complementing future polarisation surveys. Robust comparisons with these new surveys…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Yik Ki Ma , S. A. Mao , Jeroen Stil , Aritra Basu , Jennifer West , Carl Heiles , Alex S. Hill , S. K. Betti

We present a novel analysis method for measurements of polarization transferred in $A(\vec{e},e'\vec{N})$ experiments, which can be applied to other kinds of polarization measurements as well. In this method the polarization transfer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Izraeli , I. Mardor , E. O. Cohen , M. Duer , T. Y. Izraeli , I. Korover , J. Lichtenstadt , E. Piasetzky

We derive conditions under which random sequences of polarizations (two-point symmetrizations) converge almost surely to the symmetric decreasing rearrangement. The parameters for the polarizations are independent random variables whose…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-16 Almut Burchard , Marc Fortier

Accurate polarimetric calibration of the radio pulse profiles from pulsars is crucial for studying their radiation properties at these wavelengths. Inaccurate calibration can also distort recorded pulse profiles, introducing noise in time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Willem van Straten , Gilles Theureau , Eric Gérard

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

Recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-mode polarization power spectrum by the BICEP2 and POLARBEAR experiments have demonstrated new precision tools for probing fundamental physics. Regardless of origin, the fact that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jonathan Kaufman , Brian Keating , Brad Johnson

We analyze the redshift evolution of the Rotation Measure (RM) in Taylor et al. (2009) dataset, which is based on NVSS radio data at 21 cm, and compare with results from our previous work (Kronberg et al. (2008), Bernet et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly

The coming flood of CMB polarization experiments, spurred by the recent detection of CMB polarization by DASI and WMAP, will be confronted by many new analysis tasks specific to polarization. For the analysis of CMB polarization data sets,…

Using the RHESSI satellite as a Compton polarimeter, a recent study claimed that the prompt emission of GRB021206 was almost fully linearly polarized. This was challenged by a subsequent reanalysis. We present an novel approach, applying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 C. Wigger , W. Hajdas , K. Arzner , M. Güdel , A. Zehnder

Polarization leakage of foreground synchrotron emission is a critical issue in HI intensity mapping experiments. While the sought-after HI emission is unpolarized, polarized foregrounds such as Galactic and extragalactic synchrotron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yu-Wei Liao , Tzu-Ching Chang , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Niels Oppermann , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson

In this paper, we expand the theory of depth-unbiased source localization to unbiased parameter estimation and signal reconstruction of an arbitrary number of non-zero parameters to be recovered. The topic touches on the concept of exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Joonas Lahtinen

Birefringence in ionized, magnetized media is usually measured as Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radiation. However, pulses propagating through regions with very large Faraday rotation measures (RMs) can split into circularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Akshay Suresh , James M. Cordes