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Faraday tomography observations with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) have unveiled a remarkable network of structures in polarized synchrotron emission at high Galactic latitudes. The observed correlation between LOFAR structures, dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 F. Boulanger , C. Gry , E. B. Jenkins , A. Bracco , A. Erceg , V. Jelić , L. Turić

We present polarisation observations of the gravitational lens system B1422+231 made at 8.4 GHz using the VLBA and the 100m telescope at Effelsberg. All four images of the quasar show structure on the milliarcsec scale. The three bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Patnaik , A. J. Kemball , R. W. Porcas , M. A. Garrett

Faraday rotation occurs along every line of sight in the Galaxy; Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis allows a three-dimensional representation of the interstellar magnetic field. This study uses data from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey,…

We present a polarimetric map of a 20'x20' area toward the Galactic center. The polarization of point sources has been measured in the J, H, and Ks bands using the near-infrared polarimetric camera SIRPOL on the 1.4 m telescope IRSF. One…

The polarized diffuse Galactic radio emission, mainly synchrotron emission, is expected to be one of the most relevant source of astrophysical contamination at low and moderate multipoles in cosmic microwave background polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Burigana , L. La Porta

We describe a Faraday-rotation structure in the Interstellar Medium detected through polarimetric imaging at 1420 MHz from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The structure, at l=91.8, b=-2.5, has an extent of ~2 degree, within which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Uyaniker , T. L. Landecker

We calculate the polarization of radiation from thick accretion disks with vertically averaged global magnetic field. The polarization arises as a result of the radiation scattering by free electrons in magnetized plasma of a disk. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , P. S. Shternin

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We investigate how the imprint of Faraday rotation on radio spectra can be used to determine the geometry of radio sources and the strength and structure of the surrounding magnetic fields. We model spectra of Stokes Q and U for frequencies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , J. K. Banfield , K. J. Lee

Redshifted 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen is one of the most competitive probes of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Unpolarized 21 cm radiation acquires a certain level of linear polarization during the EoR due to Thompson scattering.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Soma De , Hiroyuki Tashiro

We present new 6 and 20 cm Very Large Array (VLA) observations of polarized continuum emission of roughly 0.5 square degrees of the Galactic center (GC) region. The 6 cm observations detect diffuse linearly-polarized emission throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 C. J. Law , M. A. Brentjens , G. Novak

We report a systematic rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation propagating over cosmological distances. The effect is extracted independently from Faraday rotation, and found to be correlated with the angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Borge Nodland , John P. Ralston

Using a set of compilations of measurements for extragalactic radio sources we construct all-sky maps of the Faraday Rotation produced by the Galactic magnetic field. In order to generate the maps we treat the radio source positions as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Dineen , Peter Coles

We study a conspicuous ring-like structure with a radius of about 1.4 degrees which was observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 5 frequencies around 350 MHz. This ring is very prominent in Stokes Q and U, and less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

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

We present a new approach in modelling the polarized Galactic synchrotron emission in the microwave range (20-100 GHz), where this radiation is expected to play the leading role in contaminating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni

A fully analytic statistical formalism does not yet exist to describe radio-wavelength measurements of linearly polarized intensity that are produced using rotation measure synthesis. In this work we extend the analytic formalism for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Christopher A. Hales , Bryan M. Gaensler , Ray P. Norris , Enno Middelberg

We report on high angular resolution polarimetric observations of the nearby radio galaxy M87 using the Very Long Baseline Array at 24 GHz ($\lambda=$1.3 cm) and 43 GHz ($\lambda=$7 mm) in 2017-2018. New images of the linear polarization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-15 E. V. Kravchenko , M. Giroletti , K. Hada , D. L. Meier , M. Nakamura , J. Park , R. C. Walker

Most of the useful information about inflationary gravitational waves and reionization is on large angular scales where Galactic foreground contamination is the worst, so a key challenge is to model, quantify and remove polarized…

We calculate the polarization of synchrotron radiation produced at the relativistic reconfinement shocks, taking into account globally ordered magnetic field components, in particular toroidal and helical fields. In these shocks, toroidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-02 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Marek Sikora