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We proposed a new method -- "Pacman" -- to calculate Faraday rotation measure (RM) maps from multi-frequency polarisation angle data (Dolag et al.) in order to avoid the so-called n-pi ambiguity. Here, we apply our "Pacman" algorithm to two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Vogt , K. Dolag , T. A. Ensslin

We aim to summarize the current state of knowledge regarding Galactic Faraday rotation in an all-sky map of the Galactic Faraday depth. For this we have assembled the most extensive catalog of Faraday rotation data of compact extragalactic…

Last two decades, the problem of robotic mapping has made a lot of progress in the research community. However, since the data provided by the sensor still contains noise, how to obtain an accurate map is still an open problem. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Han Wu , Zhi Yan

Faraday tomography is a powerful method to diagnose polarizations and Faraday rotations along the line of sight. The quality of Faraday tomography is, however, limited by several conditions. Recently, it is reported that Faraday tomography…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 Kohei Kumazaki , Takuya Akahori , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Tomoharu Kurayama , Keitaro Takahashi

Planar markers are useful in robotics and computer vision for mapping and localisation. Given a detected marker in an image, a frequent task is to estimate the 6DOF pose of the marker relative to the camera, which is an instance of planar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Shin-Fang Ch'ng , Naoya Sogi , Pulak Purkait , Tat-Jun Chin , Kazuhiro Fukui

Measurements of the polarization of radio emission are subject to a number of depolarization effects such as bandwidth depolarization, which is caused by the averaging effect of a finite channel bandwidth combined with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Maxwell A. Fine , Cameron L. Van Eck , Luke Pratley

The standard formula for the rotation measure, RM, which determines the position angle, $\psi={\rm RM}\lambda^2$, due to Faraday rotation, includes contributions only from the portions of the ray path where the natural modes of the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. B. Melrose

In this paper we develop a new approach to the calibration of polarimetric radar data based on two key ideas. The first is the use of in-scene trihedral corner reflectors not only for radiometric and geometric calibration but also to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Shane R. Cloude

We extend the rotation measure work of Burn (1966) to the cases of limited sampling of lambda squared space and non-constant emission spectra. We introduce the rotation measure transfer function (RMTF), which is an excellent predictor of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Brentjens , A. G. de Bruyn

By Faraday-rotation fluctuation spectroscopy one measures the spin noise via Faraday-induced fluctuations of the polarization plane of a laser transmitting the sample. In the fist part of this paper, we present a theoretical model of recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König

Magnetic fields play an important role in plasma dynamics, yet it is a quantity difficult to measure accurately with physical probes, whose presence disturbs the very field they measure. The Faraday rotation of a polarized beam of light…

Faraday rotation measure synthesis is a method for analyzing multichannel polarized radio emissions, and it has emerged as an important tool in the study of galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. The method requires the recovery of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Andrecut , J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor

Faraday complexity describes whether a spectropolarimetric observation has simple or complex magnetic structure. Quickly determining the Faraday complexity of a spectropolarimetric observation is important for processing large, polarised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-01 M. J. Alger , J. D. Livingston , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , J. L. Nabaglo , O. I. Wong , C. S. Ong

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

We consider the inverse problem of determining the fragmentation rate from noisy measurements in the growth-fragmentation equation. We use Fourier transform theory on locally compact groups to treat this problem for general fragmentation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Jorge Zubelli

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

Faraday rotation of a laser field induced by a single atom is demonstrated by tightly focussing a linearly polarized laser beam onto a laser-cooled ion held in a harmonic Paul trap. The polarization rotation signal is further used to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 G. Hétet , L. Slodička , N. Röck , R. Blatt

We propose and demonstrate cavity-enhanced polarization-rotation measurement as a means to detect magnetic effects in transparent media with greater sensitivity at equal optical disturbance to the medium. Using the Jones calculus, we…

Using commissioning data from the first year of operation of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment's (CHIME) Pulsar backend system, we conduct a systematic analysis of the Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) of the northern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 C. Ng , A. Pandhi , A. Naidu , E. Fonseca , V. M. Kaspi , K. W. Masui , R. Mckinven , A. Renard , P. Scholz , I. H. Stairs , S. P. Tendulkar , K. Vanderlinde

Paramagnetic Faraday rotation is a powerful technique for atom sensing widely used in quantum non-demolition measurements, fundamental symmetry tests, and other precision measurements. We demonstrate the use of a multi-pass optical cell for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 S. Li , P. Vachaspati , D. Sheng , N. Dural , M. V. Romalis
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