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Relatively few Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) polarization observations have been carried out at 18 cm. The importance of such observations lies in their ability to reveal information about the jet magnetic ({\bf B}) field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-01 Péter Veres , Denise C. Gabuzda

Radio polarimetric observations of Active Galactic Nuclei can reveal the magnetic field structure in the parsec-scale jets of these sources. We have observed the gamma-ray blazar 3C 273 as part of our multi-frequency survey with the Very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-09 T. Hovatta , M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

Linearly polarized Galactic synchrotron emission provides valuable information about the properties of the Galactic magnetic field and the interstellar magneto-ionic medium, when Faraday rotation along the line of sight is properly taken…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 X. Y. Gao , W. Reich , J. L. Han , X. H. Sun , R. Wielebinski , W. B. Shi , L. Xiao , P. Reich , E. Fürst , M. Z. Chen , J. Ma

We present new Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for 148 extragalactic radio sources behind the southern Galactic plane (253o < l < 356o, |b| < 1.5o), and use these data in combination with published data to probe the large-scale structure of…

We present Very Long Baseline Array polarimetric observations of the innermost jet of 3C$\sim$84 (NGC$\sim$1275) at 43$\sim$GHz. A significant polarized emission is detected at the hotspot of the innermost re-started jet, which is located…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 H. Nagai , Y. Fujita , M. Nakamura , M. Orienti , M. Kino , K. Asada , G. Giovannini

Non-VLBI measurements of Faraday rotation at mm wavelengths have been used to constrain mass accretion rates ($\mdot$) onto supermassive black holes in the centre of the Milky Way and in the centre of M87. We constructed general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Monika Moscibrodzka , Jason Dexter , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

Modern radio telescopes are extremely sensitive to plasma on the line of sight from a radio source to the antenna. Plasmas in the corona and solar wind produce measurable changes in the radio wave amplitude and phase, and the phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler , Catherine A. Whiting

We report the results of parsec-scale, multi-frequency VLBA observations of the core region of 3C 279 in Stokes I, linear polarization, and circular polarization. These full polarization spectra are modeled by radiative transfer simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. C. Homan , M. L. Lister , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , J. F. C. Wardle

We present first results from a multifrequency VLBA observations of 3C273 in 2003. The source was observed simultaneously at 5.0, 8.4, 15.3, 22.2, 43.2 and 86.2 GHz, and from this multifrequency data set, spectra of 16 emission features in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-02 T. Savolainen , K. Wiik , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski

A series of observations of microquasar GRS1915+105 were made by the MERLIN telescope array in the spring of 2003 at 18 cm. The images show polarization in the jet components, with two epochs displaying Faraday rotation of about 2500…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. K. Brown

Relativistic jets originating at the center of AGN are embedded in extreme environments with strong magnetic fields and high particle densities, which makes them a fundamental tool for studying the physics of magnetized plasmas. We aim to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 V. Bartolini , D. Dallacasa , J. L. Gómez , M. Giroletti , R. Lico , J. D. Livingston

We present full-polarization observations of the compact, steep-spectrum radio quasar 3C~286 made with the ALMA at 1.3~mm. These are the first full-polarization ALMA observations, which were obtained in the framework of Science…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 H. Nagai , K. Nakanishi , R. Paladino , C. L. H. Hull , P. Cortes , G. Moellenbrock , E. Fomalont , K. Asada , K. Hada

(Abridged) This paper introduces the formalism which connects between rotation measure ($\RM$) measurements for extragalactic sources and the cosmological magnetic field power spectrum. It is shown that the amplitude and shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tsafrir Kolatt

We present a broadband spectropolarimetric survey of 563 discrete, mostly unresolved radio sources between 1.3 \& 2.0 GHz using data taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We have used rotation measure synthesis to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 C. S. Anderson , B. M. Gaensler , I. J. Feain , T. M. O. Franzen

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are some of the most luminous and extreme environments in the Universe. The central engines of AGN, believed to be super-massive black-holes, are fed by accretion discs threaded by magnetic fields within a dense…

Fast Radio Bursts (FBRs) show highly different polarization properties: high/small RMs, high/small circular/linear fractions. We outline a complicated picture of polarization propagation in the inner parts of the magnetars' winds, at scales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Maxim Lyutikov

The formation of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is related to accretion on to their central supermassive black holes, and magnetic fields are believed to play a central role in launching, collimating and accelerating the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-23 Juliana C. Motter , Denise C. Gabuzda

We report on the polarization properties of two fast radio bursts (FRBs): 151230 and 160102 discovered in the SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts (SUPERB) at the Parkes radio telescope. FRB 151230 is observed to be 6 $\pm$ 11%…

The presence of a helical magnetic field threading the jet of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) should give rise to a gradient in the observed Faraday rotation measure (RM) across the jet, due to the associated systematic change in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Denise C. Gabuzda , Sebastian Knuettel , Brendan Reardon

We present five epochs of 15 GHz VLBA observations of 13 AGN. These observations were specially calibrated to detect parsec scale circular polarization and our calibration techniques are discussed and analyzed in detail. We obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. C. Homan , J. F. C. Wardle