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We present a formalism for analyzing a full-sky temperature and polarization map of the cosmic microwave background. Temperature maps are analyzed by expanding over the set of spherical harmonics to give multipole moments of the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Albert Stebbins

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation will have a distribution of singularities and anti-singularities, points where the polarization vanishes for topological reasons. The statistics of polarization singularities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dragan Huterer , Tanmay Vachaspati

Radio emission from stars can be used, e.g., to study ionized winds or stellar flares. The radio emission is faint and studies have been limited to few objects. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will bring a survey ability to the topic of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Bin Yu , Albert Zijlstra , Biwei Jiang

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background, though not yet detected, provides a source of information about cosmological parameters complementary to temperature fluctuations. This paper provides a complete theoretical treatment of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Arthur Kosowsky

The study of the linear and circular polarization in AGN allows one to gain detailed information about the properties of the magnetic fields in these objects. However, especially the observation of circular polarization (CP) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Cenacchi , A. Kraus , A. Orfei , K. -H. Mack

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

Both Phase 1 of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA1) and the full SKA have the potential to dramatically increase the science return from future astrophysics, heliophysics, and especially planetary missions, primarily due to the greater…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Dayton L. Jones , Joseph Lazio

The low-frequency polarisation properties of radio sources are poorly studied, particularly in statistical samples. However, the new generation of low-frequency telescopes, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA; the precursor for the…

It is crucial to know the polarization properties of coherent radio waves that escape from pulsar polar caps to calculate the radiative transfer through the magnetosphere and to predict observable radio properties. We describe pair cascades…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Jan Benáček , Axel Jessner , Martin Pohl , Tatiana Rievajová , Lucy S. Oswald

In a cycle of papers, starting with the present one, a fundamental possibility of the polarization sounding of a pulsar magnetosphere using pulsar self-radiation as a test signal will be considered. The main idea of such a sounding is based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-25 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , A. O. Skoryk

Faraday tomography is a new method of the study of cosmic magnetic fields enabled by broadband low-frequency radio observations. By Faraday tomography, it is possible to obtain the Faraday dispersion function which contains information on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Keitaro Takahashi

We demostrate that the measurement of fluctuations of polarization due to the galactic interstellar scintillations may be used to study the structure of the radiation field at compact radio sources. We develop a mathematical formalism and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Medvedev

This lab note introduces the "Stokes Camera," a simple and novel experimental arrangement for real-time measurement of spatial amplitude and polarisation and thus spatially resolved Stokes parameters. It uses a polarisation sensitive camera…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Mitchell A. Cox , Carmelo Rosales Guzmán

A sample of 129 unresolved radio sources with ultrahigh linear polarization (>30 per cent) has been selected from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. Such high average linear polarization is unusual in extragalactic sources. Higher resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-21 H. Shi , H. Liang , J. L. Han , R. W. Hunstead

We present deep VLA observations of the polarization of radio sources in the GOODS-N field at 1.4 GHz at resolutions of 1.6" and 10". At 1.6", we find that the peak flux cumulative number count distribution is N($>$p) $\sim$ 45 *…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-31 Lawrence Rudnick , Frazer Owen

The polarization properties of radio sources powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) have attracted considerable attention because of the significance of magnetic fields in the physics of these sources, their use as probes of plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Ryan S. Johnston , Jeroen M. Stil , Ben W. Keller

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

Scattering polarization in the Sr I 4607.3 \AA \ line observed with high resolution is an important diagnostic of the Sun's atmosphere and magnetism at small spatial scales. At present, spatially resolved observations of this diagnostic are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 F. Zeuner , A. Feller , F. A. Iglesias , S. K. Solanki

We present a new algorithm for stacking radio interferometric data in the uv-domain. The performance of uv-stacking is compared to the stacking of fully imaged data using simulated Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Lukas Lindroos , K. K. Knudsen , W. Vlemmings , J. Conway , I. Martí-Vidal

Magnetic fields permeate the entire Galaxy and are essential to, for example, the regulation of several stages of the star formation process and cosmic ray transportation. Unraveling its properties, such as intensity and topology, is an…