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The observed polarization of radio pulsars involves several peculiar effects, such as comparable amount of orthogonal polarization modes (OPMs) which often bear the same handedness of circular polarisation V. In the average profiles of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 J. Dyks

The angle of rotation of any target about the radar line of sight (LOS) is known as the polarization orientation angle. The orientation angle is found to be non-zero for undulating terrains and man-made targets oriented away from the radar…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Avik Bhattacharya

Polarisation of radio pulsar profiles involves a number of poorly understood, intriguing phenomena, such as the existence of comparable amounts of orthogonal polarisation modes (OPMs), strong distortions of polarisation angle (PA) curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-26 J. Dyks

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 S-shaped swing of the linear polarization position angle (PPA) observed in many pulsars can be interpreted by the rotating vector model (RVM). However, efforts to fit the RVM for a large sample of pulsars observed with the MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-17 Simon Johnston , Dipanjan Mitra , Michael Keith , Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou

We apply the standard radio pulsar rotating vector model to the white dwarf pulsar AR Sco's optical polarization position angle swings folded at the white dwarf's spin period as obtained by Buckley et al. (2017). Owing to the long duty…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Louis du Plessis , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

If the weak equivalence principle (WEP) is broken, the measured values of the parametrized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ from photons with left- and right-handed circular polarizations should differ slightly, leading to the arrival-time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

We report a precision measurement of a tune-out wavelength for 87Rb using circularly polarized light. A tune-out wavelength characterizes a zero in the electric polarizability of the atom. For circularly polarized light, the total…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. J. Fallon , E. R. Moan , E. A. Larson , C. A. Sackett

Multifrequency polarimetry is emerging as a powerful probe of blazar jets, especially due to the advent of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory. We study the polarization of High-Synchrotron Peaked (HSP) blazars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 F. Bolis , E. Sobacchi , F. Tavecchio

We have developed a relativistic model for pulsar radio emission and polarization by taking into account of detailed geometry of emission region, rotation and modulation. The sparks activity on the polar cap leads to plasma columns in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

We report here the study, in the radio band, of a sample of candidates of high Rotation Measure (RM). The point-like objects (at kpc scale) were selected by choosing unpolarised sources from the NVSS which show significant linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Alice Pasetto , Alex Kraus , Karl-Heinz Mack , Gabriele Bruni , Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez

We present a large sample of high-precision, coherently-dedispersed polarization profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at frequencies between 410 and 1414 MHz. These data include the first polarimetric observations of several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett , F. Camilo

Using all available multi-component radio pulse profiles for pulsars with medium to long periods and good polarisation data, we have constructed a two-dimensional image of the mean radio beamshape. This shows a peak near the centre of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester

POLAR is space-borne detector designed for a precise measurement of gamma-ray polarization of the prompt emissions of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50 keV - 500 keV. POLAR is a compact Compton polarimeter consisting of 40$\times$ 40…

We observed the nearby 100$\%$-duty-cycle radio pulsar B0950+08 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We obtained the polarization profile for its entire rotation, which enabled us to investigate its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Jiguang Lu , Jinchen Jiang , Shunshun Cao , Kejia Lee , Enwei Liang , Lunhua Shang , Renxin Xu , Weiwei Zhu

Forthcoming radio surveys will include full polarisation information, which can be potentially useful for weak lensing observations. We propose a new method to measure the (integrated) gravitational field between a source and the observer,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Jérémie Francfort , Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer

We present the detection of 68 sources from the most sensitive radio survey in circular polarisation conducted to date. We use the second data release of the 144 MHz LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey to produce circularly-polarised maps with…

The study of the younger, and brighter, pulsars is important to understand the optical emission properties of isolated neutron stars. PSRB0540-69, the second brightest (V~22) optical pulsar, is obviously a very interesting target for these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. P. Mignani , A. Sartori , A. De Luca , B. Rudack , A. Slowikowska , G. Kanbach , P. A. Caraveo

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

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