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The CLEAN deconvolution algorithm has well-known limitations due to the restriction of locating point source model components on a discretized grid. In this letter we demonstrate that these limitations are even more pronounced when applying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. R. Bell , N. Oppermann , A. Crai , T. A. Enßlin

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

We investigate how the imprint of Faraday rotation on radio spectra can be used to determine the geometry of radio sources and the strength and structure of the surrounding magnetic fields. We model spectra of Stokes Q and U for frequencies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , J. K. Banfield , K. J. Lee

(Abridged) This paper introduces the formalism which connects between rotation measure ($\RM$) measurements for extragalactic sources and the cosmological magnetic field power spectrum. It is shown that the amplitude and shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tsafrir Kolatt

The most ubiquitous form of computational aberration correction for microscopy is deconvolution. However, deconvolution relies on the assumption that the point spread function is the same across the entire field-of-view. This assumption is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Amit Kohli , Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , David McAllister , Esther Whang , Sixian You , Kyrollos Yanny , Federico M. Gasparoli , Bo-Jui Chang , Reto Fiolka , Laura Waller

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

A ring electrode of an RRDE setup is often used to detect a redox active specie produced at the disk electrode. It is especially useful when some side processes occur at the disk (e.g. passivation film growth) along with the main…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Artem V. Sergeev , Daniil M. Itkis , Alexander V. Chertovich

We present 2-4 GHz observations of polarized radio galaxies towards eight fast radio bursts (FRBs), producing grids of Faraday rotation measure (RM) sources with sky densities of 9-28 polarized sources per square degree. Using a Bayesian…

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

Next-generation spectro-polarimetric broadband surveys will probe cosmic magnetic fields in unprecedented detail, using the magneto-optical effect known as Faraday rotation. However, non-parametric methods such as RMCLEAN can introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Bryan M. Gaensler

We present broadband polarimetric observations of a sample of high Faraday rotation measure (RM) AGN using the VLA telescope from 1 to 2 GHz, and 4 to 12 GHz. The sample (14 sources) consists of compact sources (linear resolution smaller…

We re-formulate rotation measure (RM) synthesis for data sets with discrete frequency channels and an arbitrary channel response function. The most commonly used version of the formalism by Brentjens & De Bruyn assumes a top-hat response…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , K. J. Lee

We present a catalog of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) and redshifts for 4003 extragalactic radio sources detected at 1.4 GHz, derived by identifying optical counterparts and spectroscopic redshifts for linearly polarized radio sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Alison M. Hammond , Timothy Robishaw , B. M. Gaensler

We describe a new multi-scale deconvolution algorithm that can also be used in multi-frequency mode. The algorithm only affects the minor clean loop. In single-frequency mode, the minor loop of our improved multi-scale algorithm is over an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. R. Offringa , O. Smirnov

Radio synthesis imaging is dependent upon deconvolution algorithms to counteract the sparse sampling of the Fourier plane. These deconvolution algorithms find an estimate of the true sky brightness from the necessarily incomplete sampled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Cornwell

We study the polarization properties of 22 known rotating radio transients (RRATs) with the 64-m Parkes radio telescope and present the Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for the 17 with linearly polarized flux exceeding the off-pulse noise by…

A Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogue, or RM Grid, is a valuable resource for the study of cosmic magnetism. Using the second data release (DR2) from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), we have produced a catalogue of 2461…

Faraday rotation of radio source polarization provides a measure of the integrated magnetic field along the observational lines of sight. We compare a new, large sample of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongzhong Xu , Philipp P. Kronberg , Salman Habib , Quentin W. Dufton

Recently, some fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters were reported to exhibit complex, diverse variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), which implies that they are surrounded by an inhomogeneous, dynamically evolving, magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuan-Pei Yang , Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

We present a broadband spectro-polarimetric analysis of 1,565 polarized radio sources from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS-DR2) RM Grid catalogue. This study uses frequency-dependent Stokes Q and U spectra across the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Rudra Sinha , Abhik Ghosh