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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 present a new algorithm for fitting and classifying polarized radio sources, which is based on the QU fitting method introduced by O'Sullivan et al. and on our analysis of pulsars. Then we test this algorithm using Monte Carlo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler

Polarization of electromagnetic waves carries a large amount of information about their astrophysical emitters and the media they passed through, and hence is crucial in various aspects of astronomy. Here we demonstrate an important but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu

Pulsar radio emission and its polarization are observed to evolve with frequency. This frequency dependence is key to the emission mechanism and the structure of the radio beam. With the new Ultra-Wideband receiver (UWL) on the Parkes radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

Polarized synchrotron emission from multiple Faraday depths can be separated by calculating the complex Fourier transform of the Stokes' parameters as a function of the wavelength squared, known as Faraday Synthesis. As commonly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Lawrence Rudnick , William D. Cotton

High precision polarization measurements open new opportunities for the study of the magnetic field structure as traced by polarimetric measurements of the interstellar dust emission. Polarization parameters suffer from bias in the presence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 D. Alina , L. Montier , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard , F. Levrier , E. Abdikamalov

We discuss inverse problem of detection turbulence magnetic field helical properties using radio survey observations statistics. In this paper, we present principal solution which connects magnetic helicity and correlation between Faraday…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-19 A. Volegova , R. Stepanov

We present a catalog of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) and redshifts for 4003 extragalactic radio sources detected at 1.4 GHz, derived by identifying optical counterparts and spectroscopic redshifts for linearly polarized radio sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Alison M. Hammond , Timothy Robishaw , B. M. Gaensler

Narrow depolarized canals are common in maps of the polarized synchrotron emission of the Milky Way. Two physical effects that can produce these canals have been identified: the presence of Faraday rotation measure ($\RM$) gradients in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew Fletcher , Anvar Shukurov

We investigate the properties of the Galactic ISM by applying Faraday tomography to a radio polarization data set in the direction of the Galactic anti-centre. We address the problem of missing large-scale structure in our data, and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

We present a new method to calculate the polarised synchrotron emission of radio AGN sources using magnetic field information from 3-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (RMHD) simulations. Like its predecessor, which uses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Larissa Jerrim , Stas Shabala , Patrick Yates-Jones , Martin Krause , Ross Turner , Georgia Stewart , Chris Power

Faraday tomography is a new method of the study of cosmic magnetic fields enabled by broadband low-frequency radio observations. By Faraday tomography, it is possible to obtain the Faraday dispersion function which contains information on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Keitaro Takahashi

Radio interferometric observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets reveal the significant linear polarization of their synchrotron radiation that changes with frequency due to the Faraday rotation. It is generally assumed that such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-06 E. Yushkov , I. N. Pashchenko , D. D. Sokoloff , G. Chumarin

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

Direction-dependent instrumental polarisation introduces wide-field polarimetric aberrations and limits the dynamic range of low-frequency interferometric images. We therefore provide a detailed two-dimensional analysis of the Giant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 J. S. Farnes

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

The precise measurement of the sky-averaged HI absorption signal between 50 and 200 MHz is the primary goal of global 21-cm cosmology. This measurement has the potential to unravel the underlying physics of cosmic structure formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Emma Shen , Dominic Anstey , Marta Spinelli , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Anastasia Fialkov

We present an imaging algorithm for polarimetric interferometric data from radio telescopes. It is based on Bayesian statistics and thereby able to provide uncertainties and to incorporate prior information such as positivity of the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Philipp Arras , Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Andrei Frolov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

The polarimetry of recent pulsar observations has provided a wealth of observational data with which to test physical theories of emission mechanisms, radiative transfer and even theories that extend beyond the Standard Model. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Michael Sarkis , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Patrick Weltevrede , Xiao Xue

We have analyzed the polarization properties of pulsars at an observing frequency of 4.9 GHz. Together with low frequency data, we are able to trace polarization profiles over more than three octaves into an interesting frequency regime. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. von Hoensbroech , J. Kijak , A. Krawczyk
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