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The reconstruction of the polarization of a source in radio interferometry is a challenging calibration problem since the reconstruction strongly depends on the gains and leakages that need to be inferred along with the image. This is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Hendrik Müller

Current mm/submm interferometers, like the Atacama Large mm/submm Array (ALMA), use receivers that register the sky signal in a linear polarization basis. In the case of observations performed in full-polarization mode (where the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller

Faraday rotation has been seen at millimeter wavelengths in several low luminosity active galactic nuclei, including Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) targets M87* and Sgr A*. The observed rotation measure (RM) probes the density, magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Angelo Ricarte , Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Ramesh Narayan , Charles Gammie , Michael Johnson

The discovery of magnetic fields close to the M87 black hole using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration utilized the novel concept of "closure traces", that are immune to element-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-01 Joseph Samuel , Rajaram Nityananda , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

Closure phases and closure amplitudes have proven critical to modern radio interferometry due to their insensitivity to the uncertain station gains. We present the first set of closure quantities constructed from parallel-hand and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Avery E. Broderick , Dominic W. Pesce

Faraday rotation of polarised background sources is a unique probe of astrophysical magnetic fields in a diverse range of foreground objects. However, to understand the properties of the polarised sources themselves and of depolarising…

We present the results of multi-frequency polarization VLA observations of radio sources from the complete sample of northern, radio-bright BL Lac objects compiled by H. Kuhr and G. Schmidt. These were used to determine the integrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. B. Pushkarev

We introduce a new cross-correlation method to detect and verify the astrophysical origin of Faraday Rotation (FR) in multiwavelength surveys. FR is well studied in radio astronomy from radio point sources but the $\lambda^{2}$ suppression…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 Matthew Kolopanis , Philip Mauskopf , Judd Bowman

Faraday rotation of a laser field induced by a single atom is demonstrated by tightly focussing a linearly polarized laser beam onto a laser-cooled ion held in a harmonic Paul trap. The polarization rotation signal is further used to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 G. Hétet , L. Slodička , N. Röck , R. Blatt

We present an analysis of the polarization of compact radio sources from six pointings of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 350 MHz with 35% coverage in lambda^2. After correcting for the off-axis instrumental polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Damon Farnsworth , Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

Modern radio interferometers enable high-resolution polarization imaging, offering insights into cosmic magnetism through Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis. Traditional 2+1D RM synthesis treats the 2D spatial and 1D spectral transforms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Victor Gustafsson , Marcus Brüggen , Cyril Tasse , Torsten Enßlin , Shane O'Sullivan , Francesco de Gasperin

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 introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

Interferometric visibilities, reflecting the complex correlations between signals recorded at antennas in an interferometric array, carry information about the angular structure of a distant source. While unknown antenna gains in both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-04 Lindy Blackburn , Dominic W. Pesce , Michael D. Johnson , Maciek Wielgus , Andrew A. Chael , Pierre Christian , Sheperd S. Doeleman

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

We present multi-frequency VLA polarisation observations of nine gravitational lenses. The aim of these observations was to determine Faraday rotation measures (RM) for the individual lensed images, and to measure their continuum spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Patnaik , K. M. Menten , R. W. Porcas , A. J. Kemball

We present a broadband polarization analysis of 36 discrete polarized radio sources over a very broad, densely-sampled frequency band. Our sample was selected on the basis of polarization behaviour apparent in narrowband archival data at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 C. S. Anderson , B. M. Gaensler , I. J. Feain

Faraday complexity describes whether a spectropolarimetric observation has simple or complex magnetic structure. Quickly determining the Faraday complexity of a spectropolarimetric observation is important for processing large, polarised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-01 M. J. Alger , J. D. Livingston , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , J. L. Nabaglo , O. I. Wong , C. S. Ong
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