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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

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis requires the recovery of the Faraday Dispersion Function (FDF) from measurements restricted to limited wavelength ranges, which is an ill-conditioned deconvolution problem. Here, we propose a novel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Andrecut

Measurements of the polarization of radio emission are subject to a number of depolarization effects such as bandwidth depolarization, which is caused by the averaging effect of a finite channel bandwidth combined with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Maxwell A. Fine , Cameron L. Van Eck , Luke Pratley

Faraday rotation measure (RM) synthesis is an important tool to study and analyze galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. Since there is a Fourier relation between the Faraday dispersion function and the polarized radio emission, full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Feng Li , Shea Brown , Tim J. Cornwell , Frank de Hoog

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

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

(abridged) We run a Faraday structure determination data challenge to benchmark the currently available algorithms including Faraday synthesis (previously called RM synthesis in the literature), wavelet, compressive sampling and…

We present an analysis of the polarization of compact radio sources from six pointings of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 350 MHz with 35% coverage in lambda^2. After correcting for the off-axis instrumental polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Damon Farnsworth , Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown

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

Rotation Measure synthesis (RM synthesis) of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations at 2 m wavelength of the FAN region at l=137deg, b=+7deg shows the morphology of structures in the ionized interstellar medium. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Iacobelli , Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert

A new formalism is derived for the analysis and exact reconstruction of band-limited signals on the sphere with directional wavelets. It represents an evolution of the wavelet formalism developed by Antoine & Vandergheynst (1999) and Wiaux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-09 Y. Wiaux , J. D. McEwen , P. Vandergheynst , O. Blanc

The remote microphone technique (RMT) is often used in active noise control (ANC) applications to overcome design constraints in microphone placements by estimating the acoustic pressure at inconvenient locations using a pre-calibrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Chung Kwan Lai , Bhan Lam , Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan

We investigate whether the method of wavelet-based Faraday rotation measure (RM) Synthesis can help us to identify structures of regular and turbulent magnetic fields in extended magnetized objects, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Beck , P. Frick , R. Stepanov , D. Sokoloff

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…

Introduction Several speech processing algorithms assume the signal is stationary during short intervals (approximately 20 to 30 ms). This assumption is valid for several applications, but it is too restrictive in some contexts. This work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-10 Aldebaro Klautau

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

We extend the rotation measure work of Burn (1966) to the cases of limited sampling of lambda squared space and non-constant emission spectra. We introduce the rotation measure transfer function (RMTF), which is an excellent predictor of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Brentjens , A. G. de Bruyn

We develop and apply an enhanced regularization algorithm, used in RHESSI X-ray spectral analysis, to constrain the ill-posed inverse problem that is determining the DEM from solar observations. We demonstrate this computationally fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 I. G. Hannah , E. P. Kontar

We present new ways of producing a channel chart [1] employing model-based approaches. We estimate the angle of arrival theta and the distance rho between the base station and the user equipment by employing our algorithms, inverse of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Amr Aly , Ender Ayanoglu

We present the first spectropolarimetric radio observations that apply Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis to interferometric data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 610 MHz. Spectropolarimetry requires measurement of a large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 J. S. Farnes , D. A. Green , N. G. Kantharia
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