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Imaging polarimetry allows more information to be extracted from a scene than conventional intensity or colour imaging. However, a major challenge of imaging polarimetry is image degradation due to noise. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexander B. Tibbs , Ilse M. Daly , Nicholas W. Roberts , David R. Bull

We present an updated version of POLARIS, a well established code designated for dust polarisation and line radiative transfer (RT) in arbitrary astrophysical environments. We extend the already available capabilities with a synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Stefan Reissl , Robert Brauer , Ralf S. Klessen , Eric W. Pellegrini

We present the results of a polarization study based upon relativistic magnetohydrodynamic modelling of jets running into hydrostatic, spherically symmetric cluster atmospheres. For the first time in a numerical simulation, we derive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Michael Stimpson , Martin Hardcastle , Martin Krause

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) play an integral role in galaxy formation and evolution by influencing galaxies and their environments through radio jet feedback. Historically, interpreting observations of radio galaxies and quantifying radio…

Next generation radio telescope arrays are being designed and commissioned to accurately measure polarized intensity and rotation measures across the entire sky through deep, wide-field radio interferometric surveys. Radio interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 P. Jagannathan , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau , A. R. Taylor

We present a detailed study of the Faraday depth structure of four bright (> 1 Jy), strongly polarized, unresolved, radio-loud quasars. The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) was used to observe these sources with 2 GHz of…

The prospects for accomplishing x-ray polarization measurements of astronomical sources have grown in recent years, after a hiatus of more than 37 years. Unfortunately, accompanying this long hiatus has been some confusion over the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ronald F. Elsner , Stephen L. O'Dell , Martin C. Weisskopf

Using polarization measurements in remote sensing and optical studies allows retrieving more information. We consider relationship between the reflection coefficients of plane and rough surfaces for linearly polarized waves. Certain…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-14 Yu. K. Shestopaloff

Polarforming emerges as a promising technique for manipulating the polarization of electromagnetic (EM) waves by shaping the polarization of an antenna into a desired state. By dynamically adjusting antenna polarization, polarforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Xiaodan Shao , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

An understanding of cosmic magnetism requires converting the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources into the rest-frame in which the corresponding polarized emission or Faraday rotation is produced. Motivated by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-02 J. S. Farnes , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti

Foregrounds with polarization states that are not smooth functions of frequency present a challenge to HI Epoch of Reionization (EoR) power spectrum measurements if they are not cleanly separated from the desired Stokes I signal. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Zachary E. Martinot , James E. Aguirre , Saul A. Kohn , Immanuel Q. Washington

We present a low-frequency, broadband polarization study of the FRII radio galaxy PKS J0636-2036 (z = 0.0551), using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) from 70 to 230 MHz. The northern and southern hotspots (separated by ~14.5' on the sky)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Emil Lenc , Craig S. Anderson , Bryan M. Gaensler , Tara Murphy

Observational study of galactic magnetic fields is limited by projected observables. Comparison with numerical simulations is helpful to understand the real structures, and observational visualization of numerical data is an important task.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Mami Machida , Takuya Akahori , Kenji Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Marijke Haverkorn

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Maxim Lyutikov

We discuss a systematic effect associated with measuring polarization with a continuously rotating half-wave plate. The effect was identified with the data from the E and B Experiment (EBEX), which was a balloon-borne instrument designed to…

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show complicated variations and reversals of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), indicating that the sources of these FRBs are embedded in a dynamically magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Z. Y. Zhao , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

The phenomenon of Faraday rotation of linearly polarized synchrotron emission in a magneto-ionized medium has been understood and studied for decades. But since the sense of the rotation itself is irrelevant in most contexts, some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 K. Ferrière , J. L. West , T. R. Jaffe

With the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), multi-frequency polarimetric images were taken of the diffuse radio synchrotron background in a region centered on (l,b) = (161,16). The observations were done simultaneously in 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert , Ger de Bruyn

The calibration and analysis of polarization observations in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) requires the use of specific algorithms that suffer from several limitations, closely related to assumptions in the data properties that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Alejandro Mus , Michael Janssen , Pablo de Vicente , Javier Gonzalez

We investigate whether the method of wavelet-based Faraday rotation measure (RM) Synthesis can help us to identify structures of regular and turbulent magnetic fields in extended magnetized objects, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Beck , P. Frick , R. Stepanov , D. Sokoloff