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At a distance of 20 pc from the purported supermassive black hole powering quasars, temperatures and densities are inferred from optical observations to be ~10**4 K and ~10**4 cm**-3. Here we present Very Long Baseline Interferometry radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Udomprasert , G. B. Taylor , T. J. Pearson , D. H. Roberts

We present 2-4 GHz observations of polarized radio galaxies towards eight fast radio bursts (FRBs), producing grids of Faraday rotation measure (RM) sources with sky densities of 9-28 polarized sources per square degree. Using a Bayesian…

In this work we interpret and discuss the time variable rotation measure (RM) found, for the first time over a 1-yr period, in the core region of a blazar. These results are based on a one-year, multi-frequency (15, 24, and 43 GHz) Very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-30 R. Lico , J. L. Gómez , K. Asada , A. Fuentes

We present a study on rotation measure (RM) of the quasar 3C 273. This analysis aims to discern the magnetic field structure and its temporal evolution. The quasar 3C 273 is one of the most studied active galactic nuclei due to its high…

Faraday rotation of radio source polarization provides a measure of the integrated magnetic field along the observational lines of sight. We compare a new, large sample of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongzhong Xu , Philipp P. Kronberg , Salman Habib , Quentin W. Dufton

To study the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the Galactic centre (GC) we measured Faraday rotation of the radio emission of pulsars which are seen towards the GC. Three of these pulsars have the largest rotation measures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , R. P. Eatough , K. Ferrière , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , A. Noutsos , R. M. Shannon

We present a sequence of 12 monthly polarimetric 15, 22, and 43 GHz VLBA observations of the radio galaxy 3C 120 revealing a systematic presence of gradients in Faraday rotation and degree of polarization across and along the jet. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -L. Gomez , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , I. Agudo , M. Roca-Sogorb

We report the first detection of linearly polarized emission at an observing wavelength of 350 $\mu$m from the radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus 3C 279. We conducted polarization observations for 3C 279 using the SHARP polarimeter in the…

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

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show complicated variations and reversals of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), indicating that the sources of these FRBs are embedded in a dynamically magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Z. Y. Zhao , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

Investigating the magnetic field structure in the innermost regions of relativistic jets is fundamental to shed light on the crucial physical processes giving rise to the jet formation, as well as to its extraordinary radiation output up to…

We present new results on the parsec-scale jet of the quasar 3C395, derived from VLBI polarization sensitive observations made in 1995.91 and 1998.50 at 8.4, 15.4 and 22.2 GHz. The observations show a complex one-sided jet extending up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Lara , A. Alberdi , J. M. Marcaide

Two Compact Steep-spectrum Sources (CSSs), 0548+165 and 1524-136, chosen from a list of CSSs with polarization percentages that decrease with decreasing frequency and high rotation measure values (RM > 450 rad/m**2) on arcsecond scales,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Mantovani , W. Junor , R. Ricci , D. J. Saikia , C. Salter , M. Bondi

There is evidence that magnetized material along the line of sight to distant quasars is detectable in the polarization properties of the background sources. The polarization properties appear to be correlated with the presence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Kwang Seong Kim , Simon J. Lilly , Francesco Miniati , M. L. Bernet , Rainer Beck , S. P. O'Sullivan , B. M. Gaensler

We have detected significant Rotation Measure variations for 9 bright pulsars, as a function of pulse longitude. An additional sample of 10 pulsars showed a rather constant RM with phase, yet a small degree of RM fluctuation is visible in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Noutsos , A. Karastergiou , M. Kramer , S. Johnston , B. W. Stappers

To determine the properties of the Faraday screen and the magnetic field near the central region of the Galaxy, we measured the Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 60 background extragalactic source components through the -6 deg < l <6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

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 have observed 37 bright, polarized radio sources with the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to present a novel analysis of their Faraday rotation properties. Each source was observed during the commissioning phase with 2 to 4 100-MHz bands at…

We present new deep multi-frequency radio-polarimetric images of a sample of high redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs), having redshift between 1.7 and 4.1. The radio data at 4.7 and 8.2 GHz were taken with the Very Large Array in the A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 L. Pentericci , W. Van Reeven , C. L. Carilli , H. J. A. Rottgering , G. K. Miley

We present results from multifrequency polarimetry of NRAO 140 using the Very Long Baseline Array. These observations allow us to reveal the distributions of both the polarization position angle and the Faraday rotation measure (RM). These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiichi Asada , Makoto Inoue , Masanori Nakamura , Seiji Kameno , Hiroshi Nagai