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Polarized diffuse emission observations at 2.3 GHz in a high Galactic latitude area are presented. The 2\degr X 2\degr field, centred in (\alpha=5^h,\delta=-49\degr), is located in the region observed by the BOOMERanG experiment. Our…

The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) is an HI and 1.4-GHz continuum survey of the 4th quadrant of the Galaxy at arcmin resolution. We present here results on linearly polarized continuum emission from an initial 28-square-degree Test…

We present the astrometric identification of 80 known radio pulsars as unresolved continuum sources detected at 144 MHz in the second data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS DR2), which covers 27% of the Northern hemisphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 G. A. C. Rijkers , C. G. Bassa , J. R. Callingham , T. Shimwell

We used data from the \wmap satellite at 23, 33 and 41 GHz to study the diffuse polarised emission over the entire sky. The emission originates mostly from filamentary structures with well-ordered magnetic fields. Some of these structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Matias Vidal , C. Dickinson , R. D. Davies , J. P. Leahy

Faraday tomography through broadband polarimetry can provide crucial information on magnetized astronomical objects, such as quasars, galaxies, or galaxy clusters. However, the limited wavelength coverage of the instruments requires that we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Keitaro Takahashi

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a low-frequency radio continuum survey of the Northern sky at an unparalleled resolution and sensitivity. In order to fully exploit this huge dataset and those produced by the…

We have used polarimetric imaging to study the magneto-ionic medium of the Galaxy, obtaining 1420 MHz images with an angular resolution of 1' over more than 40 square-degrees of sky around the W3/W4/W5/HB3 HII region/SNR complex in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Gray , T. L. Landecker , P. E. Dewdney , A. R. Taylor , A. G. Willis , M. Normandeau

Multi-frequency radio polarimetric observations of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron background enable us to study the structure of the diffuse ionized gas via rotation measure maps. However, depolarization will introduce artifacts in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Haverkorn , F. Heitsch

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

Polarized dust emission is widely used to trace the plane-of-the-sky (POS) component of interstellar magnetic fields in two dimensions. Its potential to access three-dimensional magnetic fields, including the inclination angle of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-04 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian

The dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the integrated electron density along the line-of-sight, which is typically dominated by the intergalactic medium (IGM) contribution in the case of extragalactic FRBs. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Khee-Gan Lee , Metin Ata , Ilya S. Khrykin , Yuxin Huang , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jeff Cooke , Jielai Zhang , Adam Batten

The bright polarized synchrotron emission, away from the Galactic plane, originates mostly from filamentary structures. We implement a filament finder algorithm which allows the detection of bright elongated structures in polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 F. A. Martire , A. J. Banday , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

The optimal source-finding strategy for linear polarization data is an unsolved problem, with many inhibitive factors imposed by the technically-challenging nature of polarization observations. Such an algorithm is essential for Square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 J. S. Farnes , G. Heald , H. Junklewitz , D. D. Mulcahy , M. Haverkorn , C. L. Van Eck , C. J. Riseley , M. Brentjens , C. Horellou , V. Vacca , D. I. Jones , A. Horneffer , R. Paladino

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

Low-frequency polarisation observations of pulsars, facilitated by next-generation radio telescopes, provide powerful probes of astrophysical plasmas that span many orders of magnitude in magnetic field strength and scale: from pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 C. Sobey , the LOFAR , MWA collaborations

Faraday rotation of polarised background sources is a unique probe of astrophysical magnetic fields in a diverse range of foreground objects. However, to understand the properties of the polarised sources themselves and of depolarising…

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

The magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

We present a detailed study of the Faraday depth structure of four bright (> 1 Jy), strongly polarized, unresolved, radio-loud quasars. The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) was used to observe these sources with 2 GHz of…