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Polarimetric observations at sub-GHz frequencies offer unique access to the magnetized universe through Faraday rotation and depolarization studies, but achieving reliable polarization calibration at these frequencies remains challenging.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Arpan Pal , Sanjeet Rai , Ganesh Kumbhar

Statistics of polarized synchrotron radiation carry information about the properties of the underlying turbulence. Different statistical measures constructed from observables probe turbulence properties in different ways. We consider a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Aliaksandr Melnichenka , Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

Faraday Rotation-Conversion is the simultaneous rotation of all three Stokes polarization parameters $Q$, $U$, $V$ as an electromagnetic wave propagates through a magnetized plasma. In this regime the Faraday plasma screen is characterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Andrei Gruzinov , Yuri Levin

The ionosphere contributes time-varying Faraday Rotation (FR) to radio signals passing through it. Correction for the effect of the ionosphere is important for deriving magnetic field information from FR observations of polarized cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 J. B. Malins , S. M. White , G. B. Taylor , K. Stovall , J Dowell

A number of polarization estimators have been developed for a variety of astrophysical applications to compensate measurements of linear polarization for a bias contributed by the instrumental noise. Most derivations of the estimators…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 M. M. McKinnon

We study the linear polarization of the radio cores of eight blazars simultaneously at 22, 43, and 86 GHz with observations obtained by the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) in three epochs between late 2016 and early 2017 in the frame of the…

A sample of large northern Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) galaxies has recently been observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). We present observations of the linearly polarized radio continuum emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Heald , R. Braun , R. Edmonds

As the third paper in the multiple-part series, we report the statistical properties of radio bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope…

As radio polarised emission from astrophysical objects traverse through foreground magnetised plasma, the physical conditions along the lines of sight are encrypted in the form of Rotation Measure (RM). We performed broadband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-10 Yik Ki Ma , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Carl Heiles , Jennifer West

Faraday rotation occurs along every line of sight in the Galaxy; Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis allows a three-dimensional representation of the interstellar magnetic field. This study uses data from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey,…

Faraday tomography of broadband radio polarization surveys enables us to study magnetic fields and their interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM). Such surveys include the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS), which covers the…

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We consider propagation of polarization in the inner parts of pair-symmetric magnetar winds, close to the light cylinder. Pair plasmas in magnetic field is birefringent, a $\propto B^2$ effect. As a result, such plasmas work as phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Maxim Lyutikov

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…

We demonstrate a simple and robust methodology for measuring and analyzing the polarization impedance appearing at interface between electrodes and ionic solutions, in the frequency range from 1 to $10^6$ Hz. The method assumes no…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-15 Camelia Prodan , Corina Bot

We develop a new method of extracting simultaneous measurements of weak lensing shear and a local rotation of the plane of polarization using observations of resolved radio sources. We show that the direction of polarization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Lee Whittaker , Richard A. Battye , Michael L. Brown

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Yi Feng , Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao

We determined Faraday rotation measures (RMs) towards 137 pulsars in the northern sky, using Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) observations at 110-190 MHz. This low-frequency RM catalogue, the largest to date, improves the precision of existing…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic millisecond phenomena in radio band. Polarimetric studies of repeating FRBs indicate that many of these sources occupy extreme and complex magneto-ionized environments. Recently, a frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 Wan-Jin Lu , Zhen-Yin Zhao , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai