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Faraday tomography of radio polarimetric data below 200 MHz from LOFAR are providing us with a new perspective on the diffuse and magnetized interstellar medium (ISM). Of particular interest is the discovery of Faraday-rotated synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-13 A. Bracco , E. Ntormousi , V. Jelić , M. Padovani , B. Šiljeg , A. Erceg , L. Turić , L. Ceraj , I. Šnidarić

A Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogue, or RM Grid, is a valuable resource for the study of cosmic magnetism. Using the second data release (DR2) from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), we have produced a catalogue of 2461…

We analyse the circular polarisation data accumulated in the first 7 years of the POLAMI project introduced in an accompanying paper (Agudo et al.). In the 3mm wavelength band, we acquired more than 2600 observations, and all but one of our…

The concept of pyramid wavefront sensors (PWFS) has been around about a decade by now. However, there is still a great lack of characterizing measurements that allow the best operation of such a system under real life conditions at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Peter , M. Feldt , B. Dorner , T. Henning , S. Hippler , J. Aceituno

The low-frequency linearly-polarised radio source population is largely unexplored. However, a renaissance in low-frequency polarimetry has been enabled by pathfinder and precursor instruments for the Square Kilometre Array. In this second…

Using a bistatic radar echo sounding (RES) system developed for calibration of the RICE particle astrophysics experiment at the South Pole, we have studied radio frequency (RF) reflections off the bedrock. The total propagation time of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dave Besson , Ilya Kravchenko , Andres Ramos , Juliet Remmers

State-of-the-art polarimeter calibration is reviewed. Producing many quasi-random polarization states and moving/bending a fiber without changing power allows finding a polarimeter calibration where the degree-of-polarization reaches unity…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-05 Reinhold Noe , Benjamin Koch

Modern radio spectrometers make measurement of polarized intensity as a function of Faraday depth possible. I investigate the effect of depolarization along a model line of sight. I model sightlines with two components informed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-04 A. S. Hill

Aims: This paper discusses the spectral occupancy for performing radio astronomy with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), with a focus on imaging observations. Methods: We have analysed the radio-frequency interference (RFI) situation in two…

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) is one of the most powerful techniques to learn about the dark sector of the universe. To extract the WL signal from astronomical observations, galaxy shapes must be measured and corrected for the point…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Andrés. A. Plazas , Charles A. Shapiro , Arun Kannawadi , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jason D. Rhodes , Roger Smith

Low frequency radio waves, while challenging to observe, are a rich source of information about pulsars. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is a new radio interferometer operating in the lowest 4 octaves of the ionospheric "radio window":…

Newly introduced polarization diversity probing codes are suggested to enhance the sensitivity and bandwidth performance of differential phase-sensitive distributed OTDR systems. This was recently demonstrated by means of short-length…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Christian Dorize , Elie Awwad , Jérémie Renaudier

We study milliarcsecond-scale properties of the persistent radio counterpart to FRB 121102 and investigate the spectro-polarimetric properties of a bright burst. For the former, we use European VLBI Network (EVN) observations in 2017 at 1.7…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 A. V. Plavin , Z. Paragi , B. Marcote , A. Keimpema , J. W. T. Hessels , K. Nimmo , H. K. Vedantham , L. G. Spitler

We completed observations with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope to measure the polarised emission from a complete sample of Compact Steep-Spectrum sources. We observed the sources at four different frequencies. We complemented these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Mantovani , K. -H. Mack , F. M. Montenegro-Montes , A. Rossetti , A. Kraus

We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

This study aims to characterize linear polarization structures in LOFAR observations of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the 3C196 field, one of the primary fields of the LOFAR-Epoch of Reionization key science project. We have used the…

An approach for compensating the influence of the interrogator noises on the readings of interferometric sensors, interrogated by means of spectral interferometry with wavelength tuning is proposed. Both theoretical analysis and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-30 Nikolai Ushakov , Alexandr Markvart , Leonid Liokumovich

Context: Observations of polarized emission are a significant source of information on the magnetic field that pervades the Interstellar Medium of the Galaxy. Despite the acknowledged importance of the magnetic field in interstellar…