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Using polarization measurements in remote sensing and optical studies allows retrieving more information. We consider relationship between the reflection coefficients of plane and rough surfaces for linearly polarized waves. Certain…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-14 Yu. K. Shestopaloff

Polarization calibration of interferometric observations is a costly procedure and, in some cases (e.g., a limited coverage of parallactic angle for the calibrator), it may not be possible to be performed. To avoid this worst-case scenario…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 E. Albentosa-Ruiz , I. Marti-Vidal

Linear polarization angle, $\theta$, dependent measurements of the microwave radiation-induced oscillatory magnetoresistance, $R_{xx}$, in high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron devices have shown a $\theta$ dependence in the oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Han-Chun Liu , Tianyu Ye , W. Wegscheider , R. G. Mani

Radio polarimetry at decimetre wavelengths is the principal source of information on the Galactic magnetic field. The diffuse polarized emission is strongly influenced by Faraday rotation in the magneto-ionic medium and rotation measure is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Wolleben , T. L. Landecker , G. J. Hovey , R. Messing , O. S. Davison , N. L. House , K. H. M. S. Somaratne , I. Tashev

The High Frequency Instrument of Planck will map the entire sky in the millimeter and sub-millimeter domain from 100 to 857 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity to polarization ($\Delta P/T_{\tiny cmb} \sim 4\cdot 10^{-6}$) at 100, 143, 217…

Polarization modulation is a powerful technique to increase the stability of measurements by enabling the distinction of a polarized signal from dominant slow system drifts and unpolarized foregrounds. Furthermore, when placed as close to…

A new phase-coherent technique for the calibration of polarimetric data is presented. Similar to the one-dimensional form of convolution, data are multiplied by the response function in the frequency domain. Therefore, the system response…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. van Straten

Inadequacies in the knowledge of the primary beam response of current interferometric arrays often form a limitation to the image fidelity. We hope to overcome these limitations by constructing a frequency-resolved, full-polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Attila Popping , Robert Braun

The detection of the primordial $B$-mode spectrum of the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal may provide a probe of inflation. However, observation of such a faint signal requires excellent control of systematic errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ata Karakci , Le Zhang , P. M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We study experimentally the free-space electro-magnetic field emitted from a multimode rectangular waveguide equipped with a diagonal-horn antenna. Using the frequency range of 215-580 GHz, a photo-mixer is used to launch a free-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Marc Westig , Holger Thierschmann , Allard Katan , Matvey Finkel , Teun M. Klapwijk

Many circumstellar dust scattering regions have been detected and investigated with polarimetric imaging. However, the quantitative determination of the intrinsic polarization and of dust properties is difficult because of complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 H. M. Schmid , J. Ma

In \citet{Guillemot2023} we presented a new method for calibrating pulsar observations conducted with the Nan\c{c}ay decimetric Radio Telescope (NRT), which significantly improved NRT polarimetric measurements and pulsar timing quality for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Lucas Guillemot , Willem van Straten , Ismaël Cognard , Aurélien Chalumeau , Gilles Theureau , Éric Gérard

Rotation measure synthesis allows the estimation of Faraday dispersion via a Fourier transform and is the primary tool to probe cosmic magnetic fields. We show this can be considered mathematically equivalent to the one dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

In many polarimetry applications, including observations in the X-ray band, the measurement of a polarization signal can be reduced to the detection and quantification of a deviation from uniformity of a distribution of measured angles. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tod E. Strohmayer , Tim R. Kallman

A new method is presented for modeling the transformation between two polarimetric pulse profiles in the Fourier domain. In practice, one is a well-determined standard with high signal-to-noise ratio and the other is an observation that is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Willem van Straten

We present the first set of polarimetric images made with the GMRT. These were obtained as part of the program to commission the polarization mode at the telescope. We find that the instrumental polarization leakage at the GMRT varies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-29 Sanhita Joshi , Jayaram Chengalur

Magnetic dipole emission (MDE) from interstellar magnetic nanoparticles is an important Galactic foreground in the microwave frequencies, and its polarization level may pose great challenges for achieving reliable measurements of cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-10 Thiem Hoang , A. Lazarian

Polarimetry using a half-wave plate (HWP) modulator provides the strong tools to avoid a detector 1/f noise and instrument-originated spurious polarization systematic effects. While the Pancharatnam achromatic HWP (AHWP) is commonly used…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Tomotake Matsumura

Observations of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (SMM) polarized emission are used to study magnetic fields and dust grains in dense regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). These observations place constraints on models of molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 John E. Vaillancourt

Variable-delay Polarization Modulators (VPMs) are currently being implemented in experiments designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background on large angular scales because of their capability for providing rapid,…