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High resolution studies of circular polarization allow us see where it arises in a jet, study its local fractional level and spectrum, and compare these results to local measures of linear polarization and Faraday rotation. Here we not only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel C. Homan , John F. C. Wardle

We present full-Stokes radio polarization observations of the quasar PKS B2126-158 (z=3.268) from 1 to 10 GHz using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The source has large fractional circular polarization, m_c \equiv |V|/I, detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 S. P. O'Sullivan , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , I. J. Feain , B. M. Gaensler , R. J. Sault

Faraday rotation describes the change of the linear polarization angle of radiation passing through a magnetized plasma and it is quantified by the rotation measure (RM), which is related to the line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field component…

Here, we demonstrate that polarization properties show a wide diversity depending on viewing angles. To simulate images of a supermassive black hole and surrounding plasma, we performed a full-polarimetric general relativistic radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-25 Yuh Tsunetoe , Shin Mineshige , Tomohisa Kawashima , Ken Ohsuga , Kazunori Akiyama , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

Magnetic fields in cluster outskirts and the intercluster medium are poorly constrained because diffuse synchrotron emission is hard to detect at low surface brightness. Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized background sources can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 V. Gustafsson , M. Brüggen , C. Tasse , S. P. O'Sullivan

We describe three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical modelling of powerful radio galaxies in realistic poor cluster environments. This modelling extends our earlier work on the hydrodynamics of radio galaxies as a function of their cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Hardcastle , M. G. H. Krause

The magnetic field morphology of relativistic jets can be studied with circular polarization (CP). Recent 3D relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations coupled with radiative transfer calculations make strong predictions about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Joana A Kramer , Hendrik Müller , Jan Röder , Eduardo Ros

We present broadband polarimetric observations of a sample of high Faraday rotation measure (RM) AGN using the VLA telescope from 1 to 2 GHz, and 4 to 12 GHz. The sample (14 sources) consists of compact sources (linear resolution smaller…

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

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 use the observed polarisation properties of a sample of 26 powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars to constrain the conditions in the Faraday screens local to the sources. We adopt the cosmological redshift, low-frequency radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Goodlet , C. R. Kaiser

We present the first deep polarimetric study of Galactic synchrotron emission at low radio frequencies. Our study is based on 21 observations of the European Large Area Infrared Space Observatory Survey-North 1 (ELAIS-N1) field using the…

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

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 is a valuable tool for detecting magnetic fields. Here the technique is considered in relation to wind-blow bubbles. In the context of spherical winds with azimuthal or split monopole stellar magnetic field geometries, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Richard Ignace , Nickolas Pingel

The Faraday rotation measure (RM) is a commonly used tool to trace electron number density and magnetic fields in hot accretion flows, particularly in low-luminosity accreting supermassive black holes. We focus on the nuclear region of M87,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-21 Constanza Echiburú-Trujillo , Jason Dexter

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

We present 2-4 GHz observations of polarized radio galaxies towards eight fast radio bursts (FRBs), producing grids of Faraday rotation measure (RM) sources with sky densities of 9-28 polarized sources per square degree. Using a Bayesian…

We proposed a new method -- "Pacman" -- to calculate Faraday rotation measure (RM) maps from multi-frequency polarisation angle data (Dolag et al.) in order to avoid the so-called n-pi ambiguity. Here, we apply our "Pacman" algorithm to two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Vogt , K. Dolag , T. A. Ensslin

Faraday rotation is one of the most widely used observables to infer the strength and configuration of the magnetic field in the ionised gas of the Milky Way and nearby spiral galaxies. Here we compute synthetic Faraday rotation maps at…