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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Anson Ka Long Yip , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

We have conducted the largest investigation to date into the origin of phase resolved, apparent RM variations in the polarized signals of radio pulsars. From a sample of 98 pulsars based on observations at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Cristina-Diana Ilie , Simon Johnston , Patrick Weltevrede

We perform polarimetry analysis of 20 active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.4, 1.6, 2.2, 2.4, 4.6, 5.0, 8.1, 8.4, and 15.4 GHz. The study allowed us to investigate linearly polarized properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-12 E. V. Kravchenko , Y. Y. Kovalev , K. V. Sokolovsky

We revisit the polarisation induced by Faraday rotation when Cosmic Microwave Background photons traverse magnetised plasma. We compute the secondary B-mode angular power spectrum from Faraday rotation due to magnetic fields in galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer

The Faraday Rotation Ammeter (FRA) experiment takes advantage of the Faraday Effect in order to measure the current density in a given environment. The Faraday Effect explains a rotation of a polarized electric field as it propagates…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-01-03 Jason Sisk

The effects of nonlinear oscillations in compact stars are attracting considerable current interest. In order to study such phenomena in the framework of fully nonlinear general relativity, highly accurate numerical studies are required. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-24 Michael Gabler , Ulrich Sperhake , Nils Andersson

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to development of RM surveys that have produced large catalogs, as well as…

We report on sensitive 21cm and 11cm polarization surveys of the Galactic plane carried out with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope at arcmin angular resolution and some related work. Highly structured polarized emission is seen along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 W. Reich , E. Fuerst , P. Reich , R. Wielebinski , M. Wolleben

We provide precise fitting formulae for Faraday conversion and rotation coefficients in uniformly magnetized relativistic plasma. The formulae are immediately applicable to Rotation Measure and Circular Polarization (CP) production in jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Lei Huang , Roman V. Shcherbakov

We investigate the Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) through the cosmic web up to cosmological distances, using a model IGMF based on turbulence dynamo in the large-scale structure of the universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu

Optical rectification of intense, circularly polarized light penetrating a material generates a static magnetic field aligned with the light's direction and proportional to its intensity. Recent experiments have unveiled a substantial,…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-16 R. Merlin

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

We consider the influence of Faraday rotation in chaotic magnetic field on the intensity and linear polarization of multiple scattered radiation. All fluctuations are assumed as Gaussian type and isotropic. The values of magnetic field are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 N. A. Silant'ev , G. A. Alekseeva , Yu. K. Ananjevskaja

A novel experimental technique for the realisation of the optical Faraday effect using Laguerre- Gaussian (LG) light is described. The experiment employs a zero-order vortex half-wave retarder to generate a radially or azimuthally-polarised…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-28 Fatma Tambag , Koray Koksal , Fikret Yildiz , Mohamed Babiker

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

Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient techniques' measurement capabilities. We explore how to trace the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hua-Ping Xiao , Fu-Yuan Xiang

On the basis of the unified model of compact radio sources, the dependence of a turnover frequency in the smoothed radio spectrum of a pulsar upon the ratio of the dispersion measure to the period of a pulsar is obtained. This relation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 F. V. Prigara

A linear stability analysis of the free surface of a horizontally unbounded ferrofluid layer of arbitrary depth subjected to vertical vibrations and a horizontal magnetic field is performed. A nonmonotonic dependence of the stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Mekhonoshin , Adrian Lange

Magnetic fields in the ionized medium of the disk and halo of the Milky Way impose Faraday rotation on linearly polarized radio emission. We compare two surveys mapping the Galactic Faraday rotation, one showing the rotation measures of…