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We present the results of K-band imaging polarimetry of seven 3CR radio galaxies at redshifts (z) between 0.7 and 1.2. We find strong evidence for polarization in three sources: 3C 22, 3C 41 and 3C 114. Of these, 3C 41 shows strong evidence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Leyshon , Stephen A. Eales

A new astronomical photo-polarimeter that can measure linear polarization of point sources simultaneously in three spectral bands was designed and built in Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The polarimeter has a Calcite beam-displacement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 A. V. Raveendran , G. Srinivasulu , S. Muneer , M. V. Mekkaden , N. Jayavel , M. R. Somashekar , K. Sagayanathan , S. Ramamoorthy , M. J. Rosario , K. Jayakumar

COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 meter telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter operating at a wavelength of 1 cm. The entire instrument was built specifically for CMB polarization studies. We report here on observations of February 2001 -…

3C 279 is one of the best studied flat spectrum radio quasars located at a comparatively large redshift of z = 0.536. Observations in the very high energy band of such distant sources were impossible until recently due to the expected steep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Errando , R. Bock , D. Kranich , E. Lorenz , P. Majumdar , M. Mariotti , D. Mazin , E. Prandini , F. Tavecchio , M. Teshima , R. Wagner

We present polarization measurements at 8.4, 22, and 43 GHz made with the VLA of a complete sample of extragalactic sources stronger than 1 Jy in the 5-year WMAP catalogue and with declinations north of -34 degrees. The observations were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 N. Jackson , I. W. A. Browne , R. A. Battye , D. Gabuzda , A. C. Taylor

We report results from 5-day VLBI observations of the well-known quasar 3C 279 at 1.3 mm (230 GHz) in 2011. The measured nonzero closure phases on triangles including stations in Arizona, California and Hawaii indicate that the source…

The X/$\gamma$ ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar/nebula is believed to hold crucial information on their emission models. In the past, several missions have shown evidence of polarized emission from the Crab. The significance of these…

We report a 4.8$\sigma$ measurement of the cross-correlation signal between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence reconstructed from measurements of the CMB polarization made by the POLARBEAR experiment and the…

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

Here we present the spectropolarimetric observations of the radio loud active galaxy 3C 390.3 in the period 2009-2014 (24 epochs). The galaxy has been observed with the 6-meter telescope of SAO RAS using the SCORPIO spectropolarimeter. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 V. L. Afanasiev , A. I. Shapovalova , L. C. Popovic , N. V. Borisov

The red quasar 3C 212 (z=1.049) is one of the most distant and most luminous AGN which has shown evidence of an X-ray warm absorber. In order to further investigate this unusual quasar, we used Chandra/ACIS-S to observe 3C 212 for 19.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. L. Aldcroft , A. Siemiginowska , M. Elvis , S. Mathur , F. Nicastro , S. S. Murray

We report on submillimetre observations of three high redshift (z>6) quasars, made using the SCUBA camera on the JCMT. Only one of the sample was detected at 850um-- SDSS J1148+5251 (z=6.43). It was also detected (>3 sigma significance) at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian Robson , Robert Priddey , Kate Isaak , Richard McMahon

We describe a novel method to measure the absolute orientation of the polarization plane of the CMB with arcsecond accuracy, enabling unprecedented measurements for cosmology and fundamental physics. Existing and planned CMB polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Federico Nati , Mark J. Devlin , Martina Gerbino , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Luca Pagano , Grant Teply

Improved measurements of $B$-modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky. Miscalibration of the detector polarization angle leads to…

We describe the design and performance of a microwave polarimeter used to make precision measurements of polarized astrophysical radiation in three microwave frequency bands spanning 26-36 GHz. The instrument uses cooled HEMT amplifiers in…

We observed 51 sources in the Q-U-I JOint TEnerife (QUIJOTE) cosmological fields which were brighter than 1 Jy at 30 GHz in the Planck Point Source Catalogue (version 1), with the Very Large Array at 28 -- 40 GHz, in order to characterise…

We present radio intensity and polarisation profiles of 28 $\gamma$-ray-detected pulsars with the aim of putting constraints on their viewing geometries using data from the Parkes telescope. Constraints are formed both from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. C. Rookyard , P. Weltevrede , S. Johnston

We present the results of a multi-frequency study of the inversion symmetric radio galaxy NGC326 based on Very Large Array observations at 1.4, 1.6, 4.8, 8.5 and 14.9 GHz. The morphological, spectral and polarization properties of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Murgia , P. Parma , H. R. de Ruiter , M. Bondi , R. D. Ekers , R. Fanti , E. B. Fomalont

We report the measurement of X-ray polarization in the high synchrotron peaked blazar 1ES 1959+650. Of the four epochsof observations from the {\it Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer}, we detected polarization in the 2$-$8 keV band on two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Athira M. Bharathan , C. S. Stalin , Rwitika Chatterjee , S. Sahayanathan , Indrani Pal , Blesson Mathew , Vivek K. Agrawal

We analyze the polarization properties of the tilted off-axis dual-reflector submillimeter-wave telescope on the ESA PLANCK Surveyor designed for measuring the temperature anisotropies and polarization characteristics of the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Vladimir Yurchenko