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We measured the linear polarization of Sagittarius A* to be 7.2 +/- 0.6 % at 230 GHzusing the BIMA array with a resolution of 3.6 x 0.9 arcsec. This confirms the previously reported detection with the JCMT 14-m antenna. Our high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Geoffrey C. Bower , Melvyn C. H. Wright , Heino Falcke , Donald C. Backer

A polarised light imaging microscopy with an addition of liquid crystal (LC) phase retarder was implemented to determine the birefringence of silk fibers with the high 2 micrometers spatial resolution. The measurement was carried out with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-27 Reo Honda , Meguya Ryu , Jing-Liang Li , Vygantas Mizeikis , Saulius Juodkazis , Junko Morikawa

Differences in interaural phase configuration between a target and a masker can lead to substantial binaural unmasking. This effect is decreased for masking noises with an interaural time difference (ITD). Adding a second noise with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Bernhard Eurich , Jörg Encke , Stephan D. Ewert , Mathias Dietz

New generation of radio interferometers are envisaged to produce high quality, high dynamic range Stokes images of the observed sky from the corresponding under-sampled Fourier domain measurements. In practice, these measurements are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jasleen Birdi , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

We extend the dust-filament-based model presented in Herv\'ias-Caimapo & Huffenberger 2022 to produce parity-violating foreground spectra by manipulating the filament orientations relative to the magnetic field. We calibrate our model to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Ari J. Cukierman , Patricia Diego-Palazuelos , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Susan E. Clark

We present optical interferometric polarimetry measurements of the Mira-like variables R Car and RR Sco, using the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer. By making visibility measurements in two perpendicular polarisations, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Ireland , P. G. Tuthill , J. Davis , W. Tango

As part of the JWST GTO program MINDS, we analyze the mid-infrared emission of three Class II binary systems: VW Cha, WX Cha, and RW Aur, to investigate the impact of stellar multiplicity on the chemistry and physics of their inner disk. We…

A fast and general Bayesian inference framework to infer the physical properties of dichroic polarization using mid-infrared imaging- and spectro-polarimetric observations is presented. The Bayesian approach is based on a hierarchical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 E. Lopez-Rodriguez

Polarization leakage of foreground synchrotron emission is a critical issue in HI intensity mapping experiments. While the sought-after HI emission is unpolarized, polarized foregrounds such as Galactic and extragalactic synchrotron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yu-Wei Liao , Tzu-Ching Chang , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Niels Oppermann , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson

One key challenge in detecting 21 cm cosmological signal at z > 6 is to separate the cosmological signal from foreground emission. This can be studied in a power spectrum space where the foreground is confined to low delay modes whereas the…

We report Multi-telescope interferometric measurements taken with the Interferometric Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) to provide imagery of the LPV Mira in the H-band. This wavelength region is well suited to studying mass loss given the low…

Cosmic birefringence is a parity-violating effect that might have rotated the plane of linearly polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by an angle $\beta$ since its emission. This has recently been measured to be non-zero…

We have conducted aperture polarimetry of ~500 stars of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) in M42 based on our wide-field (~8'\times 8') $JHKs$ band polarimetry. Most of the near-infrared (NIR) polarizations are dichroic, with position angles…

PDS 70 is a unique system as it hosts a protoplanetary disk with two confirmed forming planets, making it an ideal target for characterizing dust in such disks. We present new high-contrast polarimetric differential imaging of PDS 70 using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-07 J. Ma , C. Ginski , R. Tazaki , C. Dominik , H. M. Schmid , F. Ménard

We present the design for MYSTIC, the Michigan Young STar Imager at CHARA. MYSTIC will be a K-band, cryogenic, 6-beam combiner for the Georgia State University CHARA telescope array. The design follows the image-plane combination scheme of…

In this chapter we present a brief summary of methods, instruments and calibration techniques used in modern astronomical polarimetry in the optical wavelengths. We describe the properties of various polarization devices and detectors used…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Andrei Berdyugin , Vilppu Piirola , Juri Poutanen

Interstellar polarization at far-infrared through millimeter wavelengths (0.1 - 1 mm) is primarily due to thermal emission from dust grains aligned with magnetic fields. This mechanism has led to studies of magnetic fields in a variety of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-14 John E. Vaillancourt

We present polarimetric observations of 14 pre-main-sequence (PMS) binaries located in the Taurus, Auriga, and Orion star forming regions. The majority of the average observed polarizations are below 0.5%, and none are above 0.9%. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Manset , P. Bastien

Young massive stars are usually found embedded in dense and massive molecular clumps which are known for being highly obscured and distant. During their formation process, the degree of deuteration can be used as a potential indicator of…

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