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We study the Faraday rotation measure (RM) variability of flat spectrum radio quasar 1633+382 on 5 epochs spanning from 2004 to 2008. We used 4 to 43~GHz VLBI polarization data from VLBA. Core RM across 4 to 15 GHz scales with a power index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Kah Chun Lai , Juan Carlos Algaba Marcos , Zamri bin Zainal Abidin

Radio interferometric observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets reveal the significant linear polarization of their synchrotron radiation that changes with frequency due to the Faraday rotation. It is generally assumed that such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-06 E. Yushkov , I. N. Pashchenko , D. D. Sokoloff , G. Chumarin

Context. Astrophysical jets are ubiquitous in the Universe on all scales, but their large-scale dynamics and evolution in time are hard to observe since they usually develop at a very slow pace. Aims. We aim to obtain the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-29 Josep Martí , Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla , Gustavo E. Romero , Juan R. Sánchez-Sutil , Álvaro J. Muñoz-Arjonilla

We report preliminary results of our study of linear polarization in the pulsar emission at 35 & 327 MHz. We have exploited for this purpose the spectral modulation resulting from the differential Faraday rotation across the observed band.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashish Asgekar , A. A. Deshpande

We present here new observations conducted with the EVN and MERLIN of the persistent microquasar LS 5039 discovered by Paredes et al. (2000) with the VLBA. The new observations confirm the presence of an asymmetric two-sided jet reaching up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Paredes , M. Ribo , E. Ros , J. Marti , M. Massi

We discuss the results of the monitoring programs of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets studies. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, V4641…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Trushkin , N. N. Bursov , N. A. Nizhelskij , E. K. Majorova , P. A. Voitsik

We report the experimental observation of the rotation of the polarization plane of light propagating in a gas of fast-spinning molecules (molecular super-rotors). In the observed effect, related to Fermi's prediction of "polarization drag"…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Alexander A. Milner , Uri Steinitz , Ilya Sh. Averbukh , Valery Milner

We report a large misalignment between the continuous jet and the discrete ejecta in GRS 1915+105, detected in April 2023 with the East Asian VLBI network (EAVN). Two-sided ejecta are shown at 6.7 GHz images and central continuous jets are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Wu Jiang , Xi Yan , Zhen Yan , Ya-Ping Li , Lang Cui , Zhi-Qiang Shen

Magnetic fields in the ionized medium of the disk and halo of the Milky Way impose Faraday rotation on linearly polarized radio emission. We compare two surveys mapping the Galactic Faraday rotation, one showing the rotation measures of…

We present the result of multi-wavelength observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 in a plateau state with a luminosity of ~7.5x10^{38) erg s-1 (~40% L_Edd), conducted simultaneously with the INTEGRAL and RXTE satellites, the ESO/NTT,…

The parsec-scale Faraday rotation measure (RM) distribution of six "blazars" is investigated using multi-frequency (4.6--43 GHz) polarization observations taken on 2006 July 2 with the VLBA. Analysis of the RM provides the direction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

Multi-frequency Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) polarimetry observation of the GHz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) quasar OQ172 (J1445+0958) has been performed at 1.6, 2.2, 4.8, 8.3 and 15.3 GHz in 2005. Core-jet structures are detected in all bands…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-03 Yi Liu , D. R. Jiang , Minfeng Gu , L. I. Gurvits

We studied the polarization behavior of the quasar 3C 273 over the 1 mm wavelength band at ALMA with a total bandwidth of 7.5GHz across 223 to 243 GHz at 0.8 arcsec resolution, corresponding to 2.1 kpc at the distance of 3C 273. With these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 T. Hovatta , S. O'Sullivan , I. Martí-Vidal , T. Savolainen , A. Tchekhovskoy

We have used the VLBA at 15 GHz to image the structure of 132 strong compact AGN and quasars with a resolution better than one milliarcsecond and a dynamic range typically exceeding 1000 to 1. These observations were made as part of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. I. Kellermann , R. C. Vermeulen , J. A. Zensus , M. H. Cohen

We present an in-depth study of the large-scale, western jet of the microquasar XTE J1550-564, based on X-ray and radio observations performed in 2002-2003. The jet is spatially resolved in both observing windows. The X-ray jet is expanding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Giulia Migliori , Stéphane Corbel , John A. Tomsick , Philip Kaaret , Rob P. Fender , Tasso Tzioumis , Mickaël Coriat , Jerome A. Orosz

The millimeter/submillimeter wavelength polarization of Sgr A* is known to be variable in both magnitude and position angle on time scales down to a few hours. The unstable polarization has prevented measurements made at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. P. Marrone , J. M. Moran , J. -H. Zhao , R. Rao

The polarimetry of recent pulsar observations has provided a wealth of observational data with which to test physical theories of emission mechanisms, radiative transfer and even theories that extend beyond the Standard Model. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Michael Sarkis , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Patrick Weltevrede , Xiao Xue

We investigate the distribution of Faraday rotation measure (RM) in the M87 jet at arc-second scales by using archival polarimetric VLA data at 8, 15, 22 and 43 GHz. We resolve the structure of the RM in several knots along the jet for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Juan-Carlos Algaba , Keiichi Asada , Masanori Nakamura

There is currently a clear discrepancy in the proper motions measured on different angular scales in the approaching radio jets of the black hole X-ray binary GRS1915+105. Lower velocities were measured with the Very Large Array (VLA) prior…

We present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100-m radio telescope. Using these results along with previous measurements for pulsars and extra-galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , W. van Straten , P. Demorest