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Missions like NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) are poised to provide an unprecedented view of the Universe in polarized X-rays. Polarization probes physical anisotropies, a fact exploited by particle physicists to look for…

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As radio polarised emission from astrophysical objects traverse through foreground magnetised plasma, the physical conditions along the lines of sight are encrypted in the form of Rotation Measure (RM). We performed broadband…

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A number of polarization estimators have been developed for a variety of astrophysical applications to compensate measurements of linear polarization for a bias contributed by the instrumental noise. Most derivations of the estimators…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 M. M. McKinnon

We consider the polarization behaviour of radio waves propagating through an ultrarelativistic highly magnetized electron-positron plasma in a pulsar magnetosphere. The rotation of magnetosphere gives rise to the wave mode coupling in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. E. Lyubarskii , S. A. Petrova

The interaction between two co-propagating electromagnetic pulses in a magnetized plasma is considered, from first principles, relying on a fluid-Maxwell model. Two circularly polarized wavepackets by same group velocities are considered,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 G. P. Veldes , N. Lazarides , D. J. Frantzeskakis , I. Kourakis

We update the systematic studies of circular polarization in integrated pulse profiles by Han et al (1998). Data of circular polarization profiles are compiled. Sense reversals can occur in core or cone components, or near the intersection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 X. P. You , J. L. Han

Significance: The depolarization of circularly polarized light caused by scattering in turbid media reveals structural information about the dispersed particles, such as their size, density, and distribution, which is useful for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Nozomi Nishizawa , Asato Esumi , Yukito Ganko

The effect of an intense external linear polarized radiation field on the angular distributions and polarization states of the photons emitted during the radiative recombination is investigated. It is predicted, on symmetry grounds, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Saverio Bivona , Giovanni Bonanno , Riccardo Burlon , Claudio Leone

Recently WMAP and BOOMERanG experiments have set stringent constraints on the polarization angle of photons propagating in an expanding universe: $\Delta \alpha = (-2.4 \pm 1.9)^\circ$. The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 H. J. Mosquera Cuesta , G. Lambiase

The radio polarization properties of the pulsar population are only superficially captured by the conventional picture of pulsar radio emission. We study the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 L. S. Oswald , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Microwave background temperature and polarization observations are a powerful way to constrain cosmological parameters if the likelihood function can be calculated accurately. The temperature and polarization fields are correlated, partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-25 Samira Hamimeche , Antony Lewis

Polarimetric features during the prompt phase of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) have been essential for elucidating the debated emission mechanisms and gaining insight into the inner structure of GRBs. However, the potential impact of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Qingxiang Zhang , Feng Huang , Zhongxiang Wang , Taotao Fang

Pulse shaping provides a significant level of control and precision when optimizing laser-plasma interactions. Pulse shaping enables precise control and manipulation, resulting in enhanced energy deposition, optimized particle acceleration,…

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To probe the nonlinear effects of photon-photon interaction in the quantum electrodynamics, we study the generation of circular polarized photons by the collision of two linearly polarized laser beams. In the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Iman Motie , She-Sheng Xue

At millimeter wavelengths, the atmospheric emission is circularly polarized owing to the Zeeman splitting of molecular oxygen by the Earth's magnetic field. We report a measurement of the signal in the 150 GHz band using 3 years of…

In the presence of a background magnetic field, axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) can be resonantly converted to photons when their mass is nearly equal to the effective photon mass. In this paper, we propose a novel method to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ashu Kushwaha , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We present an empirical model for single pulses of radio emission from pulsars based on gaussian probability distributions for relevant variables. The radiation at a specific pulse phase is represented as the superposition of radiation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Melrose , A. Miller , A. Karastergiou , Q. Luo

We present a comprehensive investigation of the radio polarization properties within the theory of natural electromagnetic wave modes in pulsar magnetospheres. Taking into account the curvature of the field lines, aberration effects and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch , Thomas Kunzl

The tidal interaction of a Be star with a binary companion forms two spiral arms that cause orbital modulation of the Be disc structure. The aim of this work is to identify observables in which this modulation is apparent. The structure of…

The conversion of CMB photons to axions (or axion-like particles (ALPs)) can lead to a unique spectral distortion in the temperature and polarization sky which can be explored in upcoming CMB experiments. In this work we have developed a…

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