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Single pulse data on radio pulsar polarization are traditionally presented in the form of two-dimentional greyscale patterns with the pulse longitude and polarization angle (PA) on the horizontal and vertical axis, respectively. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 J. Dyks

Multi-wavelength light curves of bright gamma-ray blazars (e.g., 3C 454.3) reveal strong correlations across wavebands, yet striking dissimilarities in the details. This conundrum can be explained if the variable flux and polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-27 Alan P. Marscher

The source of Faraday rotation in the jet of the radio galaxy 3C120 is analyzed through Very Long Baseline Array observations carried out between 1999 and 2007 at 86, 43, 22, 15, 12, 8, 5, 2, and 1.7 GHz. Comparison of observations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 José L. Gómez , Mar Roca-Sogorb , Iván Agudo , Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad

Polarimetric measurements, especially if extended at high energy, are expected to provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying the acceleration of relativistic particles in jets. In a previous work we have shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Tavecchio , M. Landoni , L. Sironi , P. Coppi

It is well-known that the $\gamma$-ray emission in blazars originate in the relativistic jet pointed at the observers. However, it is not clear whether the exact location of the GeV emission is less than a pc from the central engine, such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Saugata Barat , Ritaban Chatterjee , Kaustav Mitra

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Through the modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of blazars we can infer the physical parameters required to originate the flux we see. Then we can estimate the power of blazar jets in the form of matter and fields. These estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Ghisellini

The X-ray radiation produced on the surface of accreting magnetised neutron stars is expected to be strongly polarised. A swing of the polarisation vector with the pulsar phase gives a direct measure of the source inclination and magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Juri Poutanen

We report here the discovery of a significant source of systematic error in the rotation measure determinations of pulsars. Conventional analysis of high sensitivity polarimetric observations of PSR B2016+28 display variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ramachandran , D. C. Backer , J. M. Rankin , J. M. Weisberg , K. E. Devine

Durda et al. (2004), using numerical models, suggested that binary asteroids with large separation, called Escaping Ejecta Binaries (EEBs), can be created by fragments ejected from a disruptive impact event. It is thought that six binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 D. Polishook , N. Brosch , D. Prialnik

A systematic rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation propagating over cosmological distances has been claimed to be detected by Nodland and Ralston.Taking the finite rotating universe of Oszvath and Sch\"ucking as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mansouri , K. Nozari

The gamma-ray emitting binary stellar system LS I +61 303 was observed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on two successive orbits over orbital phases of 0.74 to 1.05. Polarization is detected at a significance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Philip Kaaret , Sudip Chakraborty , Daniel Golonka , Oliver J. Roberts , Ioannis Liodakis , Andrea Gnarini , Steven R. Ehlert , Joel B. Coley

Study of the polarization behaviour in blazars is a powerful tool to discern the role of magnetic field in the variable emission process in their relativistic jets. We present here results of our systematic investigation on the correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Ashwani Pandey , Bhoomika Rajput , C. S. Stalin

We present a novel method for minimizing the effects of radiative depolarization in electron storage rings by use of vertical orbit bumps in the arcs. Electron polarization is directly characterized by the RMS of the so-called spin orbit…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Matthew G. Signorelli , Yunhai Cai , Georg H. Hoffstaetter de Torquat

The curvature radiation is applied to the explain the circular polarization of FRBs. Significant circular polarization is reported in both apparently non-repeating and repeating FRBs. Curvature radiation can produce significant circular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 H. Tong , H. G. Wang

Gamma-ray emitting blazars have been the targets of many recent or ongoing monitoring programmes. The resulting multi-wavelength data archives are ideal for studying the quiescent and variable behaviour of the blazar PKS 2155-304. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Nikki Pekeur , Russ Taylor , Renée Kraan-Korteweg

We compute the vector analyzing power (VAP) for the elastic scattering of transversely polarized electrons from protons at low energies using an effective theory of electrons, protons, and photons. We study all contributions through second…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Diaconescu , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf

A central compact object (CCO, e.g. a black hole) with an accretion disk has been suggested as the common central engine of various astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), tidal disruption events (TDEs) and active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Mi-Xiang Lan , Rui Xue , Dingrong Xiong , Wei-Hua Lei , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

The problem of orbit flips caused by eccentric von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai effects is systematically investigated by means of three approaches, including Poincar\'e sections, dynamical system theory (periodic orbits and invariant manifolds) and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Hanlun Lei

We provide systematic analysis of the differential cross section of the proton-$^3{\rm He}$ elastic scattering at $\theta_{\rm cm}=180^{\circ}$ and at $T_p<700$ MeV. Three mechanisms are discussed: 2N pair exchange in the triplet and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Kobushkin , E. A. Strokovsky , K. Hatanaka , S. Ishikawa