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Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The…

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The observation of the polarization emerging from a rotating star at different phases opens up the possibility to map the magnetic field in the stellar surface thanks to the well-known Zeeman Doppler Imaging. When the magnetic field is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. J. Martínez González , A. Asensio Ramos

The polarization of masers contains information on the magnetic field strength and direction of the regions they occur in. Many maser polarization observations have been performed over the last 30 years. However, versatile maser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Boy Lankhaar , Wouter Vlemmings

We observed polarization of the SiO rotational transitions from Orion Source I (SrcI) to probe the magnetic field in bipolar outflows from this high mass protostar. Both 43 GHz $J$=1-0 and 86 GHz $J$=2-1 lines were mapped with $\sim$20 AU…

We study the propagation effects of radio waves in a pulsar magnetosphere, composed of relativistic electron-positron pair plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We critically examine the various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Chen Wang , Dong Lai , JinLin Han

Interference between magnetic substates of the hyperfine structure states belonging to different fine structure states of the same term influences the polarization for some of the diagnostically important lines of the Sun's spectrum, like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-25 K. Sowmya , K. N. Nagendra , M. Sampoorna , J. O. Stenflo

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

We present multi-frequency polarization observations of the diffuse radio synchrotron background modulated by Faraday rotation, in two directions of positive latitude. No extended total intensity I is observed, which implies that total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

We present measurements of circular polarization from rotational spectral lines of molecular species in Orion KL, most notably 12CO (J=2 - 1), obtained at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory with the Four-Stokes-Parameter Spectra Line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Houde , Talayeh Hezareh , Scott Jones , Fereshte Rajabi

The creation and detection of atomic polarization is examined theoretically, through the study of basic optical-pumping mechanisms and absorption and fluorescence measurements, and the dependence of these processes on the size of ground-…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Auzinsh , D. Budker , S. M. Rochester

The polarization transfer coefficients of a relativistic magnetized plasma are derived. These results apply to any momentum distribution function of the particles, isotropic or anisotropic. Particles interact with the radiation either in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jean Heyvaerts , Christophe Pichon , Simon Prunet , Jerome Thiebaut

Faraday tomography allows us to map diffuse polarized synchrotron emission from our Galaxy and use it to interpret the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). We have applied Faraday tomography to 60 observations from the LOFAR…

Fast Radio Bursts (FBRs) show highly different polarization properties: high/small RMs, high/small circular/linear fractions. We outline a complicated picture of polarization propagation in the inner parts of the magnetars' winds, at scales…

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We use the POLARIS radiative transfer code to produce simulated circular polarization Zeeman emission maps of the CN $J = 1 - 0$ molecular line transition for two types of protostellar envelope magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Our first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Renato Mazzei , Zhi-Yun Li , Che-Yu Chen , Yisheng Tu , Laura Fissel , Richard I. Klein

A variety of intriguing polarization patterns are created when polarization observations of the single pulses from radio pulsars are displayed in a two-dimensional projection of the Poincare sphere. In many pulsars, the projections produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mark M. McKinnon

The magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

We describe how the observed polarization properties of an astronomical object are related to its intrinsic polarization properties and the finite temporal and spectral resolutions of the observing device. Moreover, we discuss the effect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Ramesh Narayan

Radio polarimetry is a three-dimensional statistical problem. The three-dimensional aspect of the problem arises from the Stokes parameters Q, U, and V, which completely describe the polarization of electromagnetic radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. M. McKinnon

We report the experimental observation of the rotation of the polarization plane of light propagating in a gas of fast-spinning molecules (molecular super-rotors). In the observed effect, related to Fermi's prediction of "polarization drag"…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Alexander A. Milner , Uri Steinitz , Ilya Sh. Averbukh , Valery Milner

Faraday rotation measure (RM) synthesis is an important tool to study and analyze galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. Since there is a Fourier relation between the Faraday dispersion function and the polarized radio emission, full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Feng Li , Shea Brown , Tim J. Cornwell , Frank de Hoog