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Polarization profiles are presented for 20 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. The observations used the Parkes multibeam receiver with a central frequency of 1369 MHz and the…

We present a method to simulate the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources at microwave frequencies. Polarization measurements of nearly 2x10^6 sources at 1.4 GHz are provided by the NVSS survey. Using this catalogue and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tucci , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , L. Toffolatti , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , G. De Zotti

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are physically large radio sources that extend well beyond their host galaxy environment. Their polarization properties are affected by the poorly constrained magnetic field that permeates the intergalactic…

We have analyzed the polarization properties of pulsars at an observing frequency of 4.9 GHz. Together with low frequency data, we are able to trace polarization profiles over more than three octaves into an interesting frequency regime. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. von Hoensbroech , J. Kijak , A. Krawczyk

Super-sensitive observations of bright pulsars by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have revealed weak radio emission continuously emerged in the rotation phases between the main pulse and interpulse of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han

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 polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright astronomical transients, contains crucial information about their environments. We report polarization measurements of five repeating FRBs, the abundant signals of which enable wide-band…

We present some first results on the variability, polarization and general properties of radio sources selected in a blind survey at 20 GHz, the highest frequency at which a sensitive radio survey has been carried out over a large area of…

We investigate the statistical properties of the polarized emission of extragalactic radio sources and estimate their contribution to the power spectrum of polarization fluctuations in the microwave region. The basic ingredients of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Mesa , C. Baccigalupi , G. De Zotti , L. Gregorini , K. -H. Mack , M. Vigotti , U. Klein

Radio sources are often polarized. Accurate measurement of simply the flux density of a radio source requires a basic understanding of polarization and its measurement techniques. We provide an introductory, heuristic discussion of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl Heiles

We present polarization measurements of extragalactic radio sources observed during the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization survey of the Q/U Imaging Experiment (QUIET), operating at 43 GHz (Q-band) and 95 GHz (W-band). We examine…

Radio emission in the form of giant radio relics is observed at the periphery of galaxy clusters. This non-thermal emission is an important tracer for cosmic-ray electrons and intracluster magnetic fields. One striking observational feature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Denis Wittor , Matthias Hoeft , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Paola. Domínguez-Fernández

We estimate the effects of weak lensing by large-scale density inhomogeneities and long-wavelength gravitational waves upon the polarization properties of electromagnetic radiation as it propagates from cosmologically distant sources.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gabriela C. Surpi , Diego D. Harari

Polarimetry of the narrow-line radio galaxy PKS 0116+082 at the W.M. Keck telescope shows that it has high and variable optical polarization, presumably due to synchrotron radiation. It is not a BL Lac object because it has strong narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. H. Cohen , R. C. Vermeulen , P. M. Ogle , H. D. Tran , R. W. Goodrich

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

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 results from a combined radio polarization and emission line study of five type 2 quasars at $z<0.2$ with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) B-array at 5 GHz and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) [O III] observations. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-19 Silpa Sasikumar , P. Kharb , C. M. Harrison , A. Girdhar , D. Mukherjee , V. Mainieri , M. E. Jarvis

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

The polarization properties of radio sources powered by an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) have attracted considerable attention because of the significance of magnetic fields in the physics of these sources, their use as probes of plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Ryan S. Johnston , Jeroen M. Stil , Ben W. Keller

We present results from our radio polarimetric study with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) at Band 4 (550-850 MHz) of 3 blazars: radio-loud quasars 3C390.3, 4C71.07 and BL Lac object 1ES 2344+514. The aim of this study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Janhavi Baghel , Silpa S. , P. Kharb , B. Sebastian , P. Shastri