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We present the results of EVN polarization observations of fourteen GHz-Peaked-Spectrum (GPS) radio sources at 5 GHz. These sources were selected from bright GPS source samples and we aimed at finding Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Liu Xiang , Cormac Reynolds , Richard Strom , Daniele Dallacasa

The study of the linear and circular polarization in AGN allows one to gain detailed information about the properties of the magnetic fields in these objects. However, especially the observation of circular polarization (CP) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Cenacchi , A. Kraus , A. Orfei , K. -H. Mack

This paper considers the problem of accurate measurement of circular polarization in imaging spectral-line VLBI observations in the lambda=7 mm and lambda=3 mm wavelength bands. This capability is especially valuable for the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. J. Kemball , L. Richter

This paper presents a component-level comparison of the polarized v=1 J =1-0, v=2 J=1-0 and v=1 J=2-1 SiO maser emission towards the supergiant star VY CMa at milliarcsecond-scale, as observed using the VLBA at $\lambda=7$mm and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 L. Richter , A. Kemball , J. Jonas

We report the development of a semi-automatic pipeline for the calibration of 86 GHz full-polarization observations performed with the Global Millimeter-VLBI array (GMVA) and describe the calibration strategy followed in the data reduction.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 I. Marti-Vidal , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Marscher , W. Alef , A. Bertarini , U. Bach , F. K. Schinzel , H. Rottmann , J. M. Anderson , J. A. Zensus , M. Bremer , S. Sanchez , M. Lindqvist , A. Mujunen

We report the discovery of circularly polarised radio emission from the radio-jet X-ray binary SS 433 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The flux density spectrum of the circular polarization, clearly detected at four frequencies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert Fender , David Rayner , Ray Norris , R. J. Sault , Guy Pooley

Polarization leakage of foreground synchrotron emission is a critical issue in HI intensity mapping experiments. While the sought-after HI emission is unpolarized, polarized foregrounds such as Galactic and extragalactic synchrotron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yu-Wei Liao , Tzu-Ching Chang , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Niels Oppermann , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson

We report on full-Stokes L-band observations of 98 MeerKAT calibration sources. Linear polarization is detected in 71 objects above a fractional level of 0.2\%. We identify ten sources with strong fractional linear polarization and low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-24 A. R. Taylor , L. S. Legodi

We present circular polarization results from a 5 GHz survey of the parsec-scale polarization properties of 40 AGN made with the VLBA. We find 11 circular polarization detections at the 3 sigma level or higher. This nearly quadruples the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daniel C. Homan , Joanne M. Attridge , John F. C. Wardle

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

The calibration and analysis of polarization observations in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) requires the use of specific algorithms that suffer from several limitations, closely related to assumptions in the data properties that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Alejandro Mus , Michael Janssen , Pablo de Vicente , Javier Gonzalez

Global VLBI observations at 5 GHz have been performed to study the source morphology in 10 compact steep-spectrum (CSS) sources selected from the Peacock & Wall catalogue with the aim of finding asymmetric structures produced by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Dallacasa , M. Orienti , C. Fanti , R. Fanti , C. Stanghellini

We present the first results of the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS), a 5 GHz VLBI survey of 1,127 sources with flat radio spectra. Through automated data reduction and imaging routines, we have produced publicly available I, Q,…

To determine the location of the intra-day variable (IDV) emission region within the jet of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714, a multi-epoch VSOP polarization experiment was performed in Autumn 2000. To detect, image, and monitor the short term…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Kraus , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

Direction-dependent instrumental polarisation introduces wide-field polarimetric aberrations and limits the dynamic range of low-frequency interferometric images. We therefore provide a detailed two-dimensional analysis of the Giant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 J. S. Farnes

INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI 18-60 keV observations of SS433 performed in 2003-2011 enabled the hard X-ray phase-resolved orbital and precessional light curves and spectra to be constructed. The spectra can be fitted by a power-law with photon index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-17 Anatol Cherepashchuk , Konstantin Postnov , Sergey Molkov , Eleonora Antokhina , Alexander Belinski

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Brian Keating , Meir Shimon , Amit Yadav

We completed observations with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope to measure the polarised emission from a complete sample of Compact Steep-Spectrum sources. We observed the sources at four different frequencies. We complemented these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Mantovani , K. -H. Mack , F. M. Montenegro-Montes , A. Rossetti , A. Kraus

We present polarization measurements in the $2-8 \thinspace \mathrm{keV}$ band from blazar 1ES 0229+200, the first extreme high synchrotron peaked source to be observed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Combining two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Steven R. Ehlert , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Alan P. Marscher , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Iván Agudo , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Kari Nilsson , Ioannis Myserlis , Mark Gurwell , Ramprasad Rao , Francisco Jose Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Victor Casanova , Beatriz Agiz-Gonzalez , Juan Escudero , Jorge Otero Santos , Alfredo Sota , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Garrett K. Keating , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

The goal of this work is to characterize the polarization effects of the VLTI and GRAVITY. This is needed to calibrate polarimetric observations with GRAVITY for instrumental effects and to understand the systematic error introduced to the…

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