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The direction of polarization produced by a moving source rotates with the respect to the rest frame. We show that this effect, induced by pulsar rotation, leads to an important correction to polarization swings within the framework of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-07 Maxim Lyutikov

We present a scenario for the variability of the microquasar GRS 1915+105. This starts from previous works, leading to the tentative identification of the Accretion-Ejection Instability as the source of the low-frequency Quasi-Periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel Tagger , Peggy Varniere , Jerome Rodriguez , Rene Pellat

We conducted a Very Large Array survey of eleven low luminosity active galactic nuclei for linear and circular polarization at 8.4 GHz. We detected circular polarization in one source (M81*) and linear polarization in 3 sources. Sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Richard R. Mellon

We summarize the current state of polarization observations of Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source and supermassive black hole candidate in the Galactic Center. These observations are providing new tools for understanding accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey C. Bower

We report the detection of linear polarization in the radio afterglow of GRB 260310A, representing the first centimeter-wavelength polarization detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow and the first measurement of Faraday rotation in…

We present results from a circular polarisation survey for radio stars in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). RACS is a survey of the entire sky south of $\delta=+41^\circ$ being conducted with the Australian Square Kilometre Array…

Pulsar polarization profiles are critical for understanding their magnetospheric structures and radiation mechanisms. We present polarization profile measurements for 25 pulsars in globular clusters (GCs) from the observation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Tong Liu , Lin Wang , Zhichen Pan

Lorentz invariance violations (LIV) can yield vacuum birefringence, which results in an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization vector of linearly polarized emission from astrophysical sources. It is believed that if the relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-10 Jun-Jie Wei

We report about the multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the three microquasars: SS433, GRS1915+105 and Cyg X-3 during the period from September 2005 to May 2006. 1. We detected clear correlation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Trushkin , N. N. Bursov , T. Kotani , N. A. Nizhelskij , M. Namiki , M. Tsuboi , P. A. Voitsik

First, we review the current status of the detection of strong `external' variability in the CLASS gravitational B1600+434, focusing on the 1998 VLA 8.5-GHz and 1998/9 WSRT multi-frequency observations. We show that this data can best be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. V. E. Koopmans , A. G. de Bruyn , J. Wambsganss , C. D. Fassnacht

The radio polarization properties of the pulsar population are only superficially captured by the conventional picture of pulsar radio emission. We study the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 L. S. Oswald , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

We report here the first results of the spectral and timing analysis of our simultaneous INTEGRAL/RXTE observations of GRS 1915+105. The first observation ever performed with INTEGRAL revealed a new class of variability, where changes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Rodriguez , D. C. Hannikainen , S. E. Shaw , C. Cabanac , Y. Fuchs

We report the presence of a 106-day cycle in the radio variability of Sgr A* based on an analysis of data observed with the Very Large Array (VLA) over the past 20 years. The pulsed signal is most clearly seen at 1.3 cm with a ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jun-Hui Zhao , G. C. Bower , W. M. Goss

The low-frequency polarisation properties of radio sources are poorly studied, particularly in statistical samples. However, the new generation of low-frequency telescopes, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA; the precursor for the…

Linear and circular polarizations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected during recent years. We adopt a simplified model to investigate GRB polarization characteristics in this paper. A compressed two-dimensional turbulent slab…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients with millisecond duration and extremely high brightness temperature. Very recently, some highly circularly polarized bursts were found in a repeater, FRB 20201124A. The significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

We present simultaneous broad-band radio observations on the abnormal emission mode from PSR B1859$+$07 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). This pulsar shows peculiar emission phenomena, which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Lin Wang , Ye-Zhao Yu , Feifei Kou , Kuo Liu , Xinxin Wang , Bo Peng

The galactic superluminal motion source GRS 1915+105 has been extensively observed with the RXTE satellite over the last two years. More than 250 RXTE pointings have been performed until mid-May 1998 with more than 1.5 Msec exposure time on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Greiner , E. Morgan , R. Remillard

One key prediction of General Relativity is that gravitational waves are emitted with a pure spin-2 polarisation. Any extra polarisation mode, spin-1 or spin-0, is consequently considered a smoking gun for deviations from General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-29 Camille Bonvin , Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Giuseppe Congedo , Jonathan Gair

It is shown that the frequency distribution of the degree of circular polarisation for a homogeneous source is sensitive to the properties of the synchrotron emitting plasma. Most of the circular polarisation comes from the region around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Claes-I. Bjornsson