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We consider electron tunneling from a nonmagnetic $n$-type semiconductor ($n$-S) into a ferromagnet (FM) through a very thin forward-biased Schottky barrier resulting in efficient extraction of electron spin from a thin $n$-S layer near…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Bratkovsky , V. V. Osipov

The variable star AR Sco was recently discovered to pulse in brightness every 1.97 min from ultraviolet wavelengths into the radio regime. The system is composed of a cool, low-mass star in a tight, 3.55 hr orbit with a more massive white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-26 D. A. H. Buckley , P. J. Meintjes , S. B. Potter , T. R. Marsh , B. T Gänsicke

We report on optical photopolarimetric results of the radio-loud narrow line Seyfert 1 (RL-NLSy1) galaxy PMN J0948+0022 on 2012 December to 2013 February triggered by flux enhancements in near infrared and gamma-ray bands. Thanks to…

We investigated the impact of selected cloud condensates in exoplanetary atmospheres on the polarization of scattered stellar radiation. We considered a selection of 25 cloud condensates that are expected to be present in extrasolar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Moritz Lietzow , Sebastian Wolf

The polarized diffuse Galactic radio emission, mainly synchrotron emission, is expected to be one of the most relevant source of astrophysical contamination at low and moderate multipoles in cosmic microwave background polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Burigana , L. La Porta

A Monte Carlo method is used to calculate the profiles and the polarization of the Raman scattered O VI lines(lambda lambda 6827,7088) in symbiotic stars. A point-like isotropic UV radiation source is assumed and a simple spherical wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. W. Lee , Hee-Won Lee

We extend the work of Mishchenko et al. (2000) regarding the exact results of the polarization effect, using the theory of Amic et al. (1997) to derive a model prediction for the polarization coherent opposition effect at small angles. Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 Adrian J. Brown

We present a new method to constrain the grain size in protoplanetary disks with polarization observations at millimeter wavelengths. If dust grains are grown to the size comparable to the wavelengths, the dust grains are expected to have a…

We searched the SuperWASP archive for objects displaying multiply periodic photometric variations. Specifically we sought evidence for eclipsing binary stars displaying a further non-harmonically related signal in their power spectra. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. J. Norton , M. E. Lohr , B. Smalley , P. J. Wheatley , R. G. West

The polarized component of the diffuse radio synchrotron emission of our Galaxy shows structure, which is apparently unrelated to the structure in total intensity, on many scales. The structure in the polarized emission can be due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

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

Polarization in classical Be stars results from Thomson scattering of the unpolarized light from the Be star in the circumstellar disc. Theory and observations agree that the maximum degree of polarization from isolated Be stars is < 4%. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Reig , D. Blinov , I. Papadakis , N. Kylafis , K. Tassis

Radio pulsar polarization exhibits a number of complex phenomena that are classified into the realm of `beyond the rotating vector model' (RVM). It is shown that these effects can be understood in geometrical terms, as a result of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 J. Dyks

Stochasticity effects in the spin (de)polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam during photon emissions in a counterpropoagating ultrastrong focused laser pulse in the quantum radiation reaction regime are investigated. We employ a…

We analyse the feasibility of detecting the polarization of the CMB caused by scattering of the remote temperature quadrupole by galaxy clusters with forthcoming CMB polarization surveys. For low-redshift clusters, the signal is strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Alex Hall , Anthony Challinor

We present results of deep polarization imaging at 1.4 GHz with the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory as part of the DRAO Planck Deep Fields project. This deep extragalactic field covers 15.16 square degrees centered at RA = 16h 14m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Julie Grant , Russ Taylor , Jeroen Stil , Tom Landecker , Roland Kothes , Ryan Ransom , Douglas Scott

Microstructure emission, involving short time scale, often quasi-periodic, intensity fluctuations in subpulse emission, is well known in normal period pulsars. In this letter, we present the first detections of quasi-periodic microstructure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-06 Kishalay De , Yashwant Gupta , Prateek Sharma

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

We apply the standard radio pulsar rotating vector model to the white dwarf pulsar AR Sco's optical polarization position angle swings folded at the white dwarf's spin period as obtained by Buckley et al. (2017). Owing to the long duty…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Louis du Plessis , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

The galaxy M51 was observed using the Mimir instrument on the Perkins telescope to constrain the resolved H-band (1.6 $\mu$m) polarization across the galaxy. These observations place an upper limit of $P_H<0.05%$ on the $H$-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael D. Pavel , Dan P. Clemens