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Aims : We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Urvashi Rau , Tim J. Cornwell

The design and performance of a wide bandwidth linear polarization modulator based on the Faraday effect is described. Faraday Rotation Modulators (FRMs) are solid-state polarization switches that are capable of modulation up to ~10 kHz.…

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

Faraday rotation measure at radio wavelengths is commonly used to diagnose large-scale magnetic fields. It is argued that the length-scales on which magnetic fields vary in large-scale diffuse astrophysical media can be inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Alvina Y. L. On , Jennifer Y. H. Chan , Kinwah Wu , Curtis J. Saxton , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to model the measured DW-MRI signal is via fiber orientation…

In multi-photon microscopy (MPM), a recent in-vivo fluorescence microscopy system, the task of image restoration can be decomposed into two interlinked inverse problems: firstly, the characterization of the Point Spread Function (PSF) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Julien Ajdenbaum , Emilie Chouzenoux , Claire Lefort , Ségolène Martin , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Faraday rotation measure (RM) synthesis is a well-known approach originated in Burn (1966) and later developed by Brentjens \& de Bruyn (2005) for studying magnetic fields. This work presents a complementary approach--the polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Yawen Xiao , Jianfu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

Polarization measurements at low radio frequencies allow detection of small Faraday rotation measures caused by regular magnetic fields in galaxies and in the foreground of the Milky Way. The galaxy M31 was observed in two overlapping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 René Gießübel , George Heald , Rainer Beck , Tigran Arshakian

We study the Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) toward high Galactic latitudes. The RM arises from the global, regular component as well as from the turbulent, random component of the GMF. We model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , Jongsoo Kim , B. M. Gaensler

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

Depolarization of diffuse radio synchrotron emission is classified in terms of wavelength-independent and wavelength-dependent depolarization in the context of regular magnetic fields and of both isotropic and anisotropic turbulent magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 Carl Shneider , Marijke Haverkorn , Andrew Fletcher , Anvar Shukurov

RM CLEAN is a standard method to reconstruct the distribution of cosmic magnetic fields and polarized sources along the line of sight (LOS) from observed polarization spectrum. This method is similar to the CLEAN algorithm for aperture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-11 Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi

The Faraday rotation measure (RM) is a commonly used tool to trace electron number density and magnetic fields in hot accretion flows, particularly in low-luminosity accreting supermassive black holes. We focus on the nuclear region of M87,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-21 Constanza Echiburú-Trujillo , Jason Dexter

Using one-dimensional models, we show that a helical magnetic field with an appropriate sign of helicity can compensate the Faraday depolarization resulting from the superposition of Faraday-rotated polarization planes from a spatially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Axel Brandenburg , Rodion Stepanov

We use the observed polarisation properties of a sample of 26 powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars to constrain the conditions in the Faraday screens local to the sources. We adopt the cosmological redshift, low-frequency radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Goodlet , C. R. Kaiser

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to development of RM surveys that have produced large catalogs, as well as…

We benchmark the reliability of the Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis algorithm using the 1005 Centaurus A field sources of Feain et al. (2009). The RM synthesis solutions are compared with estimates of the polarization parameters using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. -P. Macquart , R. D. Ekers , I. Feain , M. Johnston-Hollitt

Observational study of galactic magnetic fields is limited by projected observables. Comparison with numerical simulations is helpful to understand the real structures, and observational visualization of numerical data is an important task.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Mami Machida , Takuya Akahori , Kenji Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Marijke Haverkorn

A joint action of depth and bandwidth depolarization in the interstellar medium is considered using a model of N homogeneous synchrotron layers with Faraday rotation. The bandwidth depolarization can be used in multifrequency polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. N. Vinyajkin

We present a Faraday rotation spectroscopy (FRS) technique for measurements on the micron scale. Spectral acquisition speeds of many orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art modulation spectroscopy setups are demonstrated. The…