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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 sub-milliarcsecond resolution total intensity and linear polarization VLBI images of 3C273, using concurrent 43 and 86 GHz data taken with the Very Long Baseline Array in May 2002. The structure seen in the innermost jet suggest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joanne M. Attridge , John F. C. Wardle , Daniel C. Homan

We present results of multifrequency polarimetric VLBA observations of 34 compact radio sources. The observations are part of a large survey undertaken to identify CSOs Observed in the Northern Sky (COINS). Based on VLBI continuum surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Peck , G. B. Taylor

Measurements of the Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) polarization could provide evidence for the existence of primordial magnetic fields. The Faraday rotation could also allow the study of some properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Campanelli , A. D. Dolgov , M. Giannotti , F. L. Villante

With the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), multi-frequency polarimetric images were taken of the diffuse radio synchrotron background in a region centered on (l,b) = (161,16). The observations were done simultaneously in 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert , Ger de Bruyn

We define 3 samples of extragalactic radio sources of type FRII, containing 26 objects in total. The control sample consists of 6C and 7C sources with radio powers of around 10e27 W\Hz at 151 MHz and redshifts of around z=1. The other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Goodlet , C. R. Kaiser , P. N. Best , J. Dennett-Thorpe

Polarization measurements at low radio frequencies allow detection of small Faraday rotation measures caused by regular magnetic fields in galaxies and in the foreground of the Milky Way. The galaxy M31 was observed in two overlapping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 René Gießübel , George Heald , Rainer Beck , Tigran Arshakian

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 report here multi-epoch, multi-frequency observations of the circular polarization in Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source in the Galactic Center. Data taken from the VLA archive indicate that the fractional circular polarization at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Robert J. Sault , Donald C. Backer

Predictions of the number of faint polarised radio sources that can be detected by SKA pathfinder telescopes and the SKA depend on the polarisation properties of radio sources with a total flux density around 1 mJy. Total intensity source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor , M. Krause , R. Beck

We present the results of a parsec-scale polarization study of three FRI radio galaxies - 3C66B, 3C78 and 3C264 - obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array at 5, 8 and 15 GHz. Parsec-scale polarization has been detected in a large number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Kharb , D. C. Gabuzda , C. P. O'Dea , P. Shastri , S. A. Baum

We present a polarization catalog of 533 extragalactic radio sources with 2.3 GHz total intensity above 420 mJy from the S-band Polarization All Sky Survey, S-PASS, with corresponding 1.4 GHz polarization information from the NRAO VLA Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Mehdi Lamee , Lawrence Rudnick , Jamie S. Farnes , Ettore Carretti , B. M. Gaensler , Marijke Haverkorn , Sergio Poppi

We present observations and analysis of the polarized radio emission from the nearby radio galaxy Fornax A over 1.28--3.1 GHz, using data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). In this, the first of two associated papers, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 C. S. Anderson , B. M. Gaensler , G. H. Heald , S. P. O'Sullivan , J. F. Kaczmarek , I. J. Feain

We present a detailed study of the Faraday depth structure of four bright (> 1 Jy), strongly polarized, unresolved, radio-loud quasars. The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) was used to observe these sources with 2 GHz of…

The bending of radio galaxies in galaxy clusters is expected to be caused by interactions with the local environment. The physical processes responsible for jet bending, and their influence on the polarization properties of radio galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 S. Vanderwoude , E. Osinga , B. M. Gaensler , J. L. West , R. J. van Weeren

Following the detection of polarized diffuse Galactic emission in 1962 a number of surveys were undertaken at low frequencies in the following years resulting in important insights on the local magnetic field, polarization of the giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Reich

We report here the detection of circular polarization in the Galactic Center black hole candidate, Sagittarius A*. The detection was made at 4.8 GHz and 8.4 GHz with the Very Large Array. We find that the fractional circular polarization at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Donald C. Backer

We present a Faraday rotation measure (RM) study of the diffuse, polarized, radio emission from the giant lobes of the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A. After removal of the smooth Galactic foreground RM component, using an ensemble of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. P. O'Sullivan , I. J. Feain , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , R. D. Ekers , E. Carretti , T. Robishaw , S. A. Mao , B. M. Gaensler , J. Bland-Hawthorn , L. Stawarz

We present Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the nucleus of NGC 1275, the central, dominant galaxy in the Perseus cluster of galaxies. These are the first observations to resolve the linearly polarized emission from 3C84, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 G. B. Taylor , N. E. Gugliucci , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders , G. Gentile , S. W. Allen

The radio transient ASKAP J173608.2-321735, at the position (l,b)= (356.0872,-0.0390), was serendipitously observed by The HI/OH/Recombination Line Survey of the Galactic Center (THOR-GC) at three epochs in March 2020, April 2020 and…