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Faraday rotation has become a powerful tool in a large variety of physics applications. Most prominently, Faraday rotation can be used in precision magnetometry. Here we report the first measurements of gyromagnetic Faraday rotation on a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Josh Abney , Mark Broering , Murchhana Roy , Wolfgang Korsch

The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations of relatively distant southern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , G. J. Qiao , W. van Straten

To determine the properties of the Faraday screen and the magnetic field near the central region of the Galaxy, we measured the Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 60 background extragalactic source components through the -6 deg < l <6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

We confirm the reality of a reversal of the sign of the Faraday Rotation Measure in the Galactic plane in Cygnus (Lazio et al, 1990), possibly associated with the Cygnus OB1 association. The rotation measure changes by several hundred…

Modern radio spectrometers make measurement of polarized intensity as a function of Faraday depth possible. I investigate the effect of depolarization along a model line of sight. I model sightlines with two components informed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-04 A. S. Hill

We aim to unveil their 3-dimensional geometry of Abell 2255 through WSRT observations at 18, 21, 25, 85, and 200 cm. The polarization images of the cluster were processed through rotation measure (RM) synthesis, producing three final RM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. F. Pizzo , A. G. de Bruyn , G. Bernardi , M. A. Brentjens

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

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer the prospect of directly measuring extragalactic magnetic fields. We present an analysis of the RMs of ten as yet non-repeating FRBs detected and localized to host galaxies…

We present multi-frequency polarimetric observations of 3C 84 obtained with the Korean VLBI Network at 43-141 GHz, the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz, and the High Sensitivity Array at 8 GHz from 2015 to 2024. We find that the Faraday…

The parsec-scale Faraday rotation measure (RM) distribution of six "blazars" is investigated using multi-frequency (4.6--43 GHz) polarization observations taken on 2006 July 2 with the VLBA. Analysis of the RM provides the direction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

We use high-quality VLA images of the Fanaroff & Riley Class I radio galaxy 3C 31 at six frequencies in the range 1365 to 8440MHz to explore the spatial scale and origin of the rotation measure (RM) fluctuations on the line of sight to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle , P. Parma , M. Murgia

We present preliminary results from mapping the high-latitude Galactic polarization with the Effelsberg Telescope at $\lambda$21 cm. Structures on the resulting maps are mostly on the scale of several degrees. The results show detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Zainal Abidin , J. P. Leahy , A. Wilkinson , P. Reich , W. Reich , R. Wielebinski

We have used polarimetric imaging to study the magneto-ionic medium of the Galaxy, obtaining 1420 MHz images with an angular resolution of 1' over more than 40 square-degrees of sky around the W3/W4/W5/HB3 HII region/SNR complex in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Gray , T. L. Landecker , P. E. Dewdney , A. R. Taylor , A. G. Willis , M. Normandeau

We present new deep multi-frequency radio-polarimetric images of a sample of high redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs), having redshift between 1.7 and 4.1. The radio data at 4.7 and 8.2 GHz were taken with the Very Large Array in the A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 L. Pentericci , W. Van Reeven , C. L. Carilli , H. J. A. Rottgering , G. K. Miley

The recent availability of high-resolution far-infrared (FIR) polarization observations of galaxies using HAWC+/SOFIA has facilitated studies of extragalactic magnetic fields in the cold and dense molecular disks.We investigate if any…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-timescale transients of extragalactic origin. The number of detected FRBs has grown dramatically since their serendipitous discovery from archival data. Some FRBs have also been seen to repeat. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Pavan Uttarkar , Ryan M. Shannon , Marcus E. Lower , Pravir Kumar , Danny C. Price , A. T. Deller , K. Gourdji

We present a broadband spectro-polarimetric analysis of 1,565 polarized radio sources from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS-DR2) RM Grid catalogue. This study uses frequency-dependent Stokes Q and U spectra across the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Rudra Sinha , Abhik Ghosh

The Galactic magnetic field is an integral constituent of the interstellar medium (ISM), and knowledge of its structure is crucial to understanding Galactic dynamics. The Rotation Measures (RM) of extragalactic (EG) sources have been the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-28 Anna Ordog , Rebecca A. Booth , Cameron L. Van Eck , Jo-Anne C. Brown , Thomas L. Landecker

Strong singly-ionized magnesium (MgII) absorption lines in quasar spectra typically serve as a proxy for intervening galaxies along the line of sight. Previous studies have found a correlation between the number of these MgII absorbers and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-16 J. S. Farnes , S. P. O'Sullivan , M. E. Corrigan , B. M. Gaensler

We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst, FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure (DM) of 1105.6$\pm$0.8 pc cm^{-3}, a pulse duration of…