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We report on sensitive 21cm and 11cm polarization surveys of the Galactic plane carried out with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope at arcmin angular resolution and some related work. Highly structured polarized emission is seen along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 W. Reich , E. Fuerst , P. Reich , R. Wielebinski , M. Wolleben

The transfer of polarized radiation in stochastic synchrotron sources is explored by means of analytic treatment and Monte Carlo simulations. We argue that the main mechanism responsible for the circular polarization properties of compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mateusz Ruszkowski , Mitchell C. Begelman

We calculate the polarization of radiation from thick accretion disks with vertically averaged global magnetic field. The polarization arises as a result of the radiation scattering by free electrons in magnetized plasma of a disk. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , P. S. Shternin

Faraday rotation has been seen at millimeter wavelengths in several low luminosity active galactic nuclei, including Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) targets M87* and Sgr A*. The observed rotation measure (RM) probes the density, magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Angelo Ricarte , Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Ramesh Narayan , Charles Gammie , Michael Johnson

Measurements of interplanetary magnetic fields have long relied on spacecraft measurements, which provide only in-situ sampling and therefore cannot capture the global magnetic structure. Faraday rotation of radio signals extends in-situ…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Chuanpeng Hou , Huirong Yan , Siqi Zhao

Regular magnetic field structures can be derived from the Faraday rotation measures (RM) of polarized background sources observable at 1.4 GHz with the SKA. At lower frequencies ($<250$ MHz) polarimetry of radio sources with the Low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck

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

Modern radio interferometers enable high-resolution polarization imaging, offering insights into cosmic magnetism through Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis. Traditional 2+1D RM synthesis treats the 2D spatial and 1D spectral transforms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Victor Gustafsson , Marcus Brüggen , Cyril Tasse , Torsten Enßlin , Shane O'Sullivan , Francesco de Gasperin

Faraday tomography of broadband radio polarization surveys enables us to study magnetic fields and their interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM). Such surveys include the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS), which covers the…

Using the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1), we examine polarized pulsar emission between 25 and 88 MHz. Polarized light from pulsars undergoes Faraday rotation as it passes through the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 V. Dike , G. B. Taylor , J. Dowell , K. Stovall

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are observed to be highly polarized. Most have high linear polarization but a small fraction show significant circular polarization. We systematically investigate a variety of polarization mechanisms of FRBs within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. In the Milky Way, Faraday rotation of the polarized emission from pulsars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-24 R. Beck

Studying the interaction between AGN jets and lobes and their surrounding environment is important in order to understand how they transfer energy to their environment as well as determining the intrinsic physical properties of the sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-08 S. Knuettel , S. P. O'Sullivan , S. Curiel , B. H. C. Emonts

Rotation measure (RM) grids of extragalactic radio sources have been widely used for studying cosmic magnetism. But their potential for exploring the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of galaxies is unclear, since other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Akahori , B. M. Gaensler , Dongsu Ryu

Faraday rotation of polarized emission from pulsars measured at radio frequencies provides a powerful tool to investigate the interstellar and interplanetary magnetic fields. However, besides being sensitive to the astrophysical media,…

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

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. The total intensity traces the strength and distribution of total magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

We present a theoretical investigation of the polarization plane rotation at light transmission - Faraday effect, through one-dimensional multilayered magneto-photonic systems consisting of periodically distributed magnetic and dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yuliya S. Dadoenkova , Nataliya N. Dadoenkova , Igor L. Lyubchanskii , Jarosław W. Kłos , Maciej Krawczyk

The standard formula for the rotation measure, RM, which determines the position angle, $\psi={\rm RM}\lambda^2$, due to Faraday rotation, includes contributions only from the portions of the ray path where the natural modes of the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. B. Melrose

Wave propagation properties in a medium are fundamentally affected when this medium is moving instead of at rest. In isotropic dielectric media rotation has two noteworthy contributions: one is a mechanically induced circular birefringence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Renaud Gueroult , Jean-Marcel Rax , Nathaniel J. Fisch