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We discuss the opacity in the core regions of active galactic nuclei observed with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), and describe a new method for deriving the frequency-dependent shifts of the VLBI core from the frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 N. A. Kudryavtseva , D. C. Gabuzda , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller

Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) should be interpreted with caution because there could be multiple magneto-ionized medium components that contribute to the net Faraday rotation along sight-lines. We introduce a simple test using Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Seoyoung Lyla Jung , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths , Alex S. Hill

The aim of the present work is to constrain the Coma cluster magnetic field strength, its radial profile and power spectrum by comparing Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) images with numerical simulations of the magnetic field. We have analyzed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Bonafede , L. Feretti , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa , K. Dolag , G. B. Taylor

Measurements of the Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) polarization could provide evidence for the existence of primordial magnetic fields. The Faraday rotation could also allow the study of some properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Campanelli , A. D. Dolgov , M. Giannotti , F. L. Villante

Recently, some fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters were reported to exhibit complex, diverse variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), which implies that they are surrounded by an inhomogeneous, dynamically evolving, magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuan-Pei Yang , Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

We aim to unveil their 3-dimensional geometry of Abell 2255 through WSRT observations at 18, 21, 25, 85, and 200 cm. The polarization images of the cluster were processed through rotation measure (RM) synthesis, producing three final RM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. F. Pizzo , A. G. de Bruyn , G. Bernardi , M. A. Brentjens

We report on 85-101 GHz light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), observed in April 2017 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This study of high-cadence full-Stokes data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Maciek Wielgus , Sara Issaoun , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Razieh Emami , Monika Moscibrodzka , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Ciriaco Goddi , Ed Fomalont

We use high-quality VLA images of the Fanaroff & Riley Class I radio galaxy 3C 31 at six frequencies in the range 1365 to 8440MHz to explore the spatial scale and origin of the rotation measure (RM) fluctuations on the line of sight to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle , P. Parma , M. Murgia

The source NRAO150 is a very prominent millimeter to radio emitting quasar at redshift z=1.52 for which previous millimeter VLBI observations revealed a fast counterclockwise rotation of the innermost regions of the jet. Here we present new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-04 Sol N. Molina , Iván Agudo , José L. Gómez , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Iván Martí-Vidal , Alan L. Roy

The new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array-low pathfinder), provides advancements in our capability of probing Galactic magnetism through low-frequency polarimetry.…

We consider propagation of polarization in the inner parts of pair-symmetric magnetar winds, close to the light cylinder. Pair plasmas in magnetic field is birefringent, a $\propto B^2$ effect. As a result, such plasmas work as phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Maxim Lyutikov

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 the first 86 GHz VLBI observations of the radio galaxy 3C~120, together with contemporaneous 43 and 22 GHz polarimetric VLBA observations. The very high angular resolution obtained at 86 GHz provides an upper limit to the size of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose-Luis Gomez , Alan P. Marscher , Antonio Alberdi

Using one-dimensional models, we show that a helical magnetic field with an appropriate sign of helicity can compensate the Faraday depolarization resulting from the superposition of Faraday-rotated polarization planes from a spatially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Axel Brandenburg , Rodion Stepanov

We present the results of parsec-scale circular polarization (CP) measurements based on VLBA data for a number of radio-bright, core-dominated AGN obtained simultaneously at 15, 22 and 43 GHz. The degrees of CP $m_c$ for the VLBI core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Vitrishchak , D. C. Gabuzda , E. A. Rastorgueva , S. P. O'Sullivan , A. O'Dowd

Probing magnetic fields in high-redshift galactic systems is crucial to investigate galactic dynamics and evolution. Utilizing the rotation measure of the background quasars, we have developed a radial profile of the magnetic field in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Shivam Burman , Paras Sharma , Sunil Malik , Suprit Singh

This paper investigates the fascinating diffuse polarization structures at 350 MHz that have previously been tentatively attributed to the Perseus cluster and, more specifically, tries to find out whether the structures are located at (or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. A. Brentjens

(ABRIDGED) We present here the results from new Very Long Baseline Array observations at 1.6 and 5 GHz of 19 galaxies of a complete sample of 21 UGC FRI radio galaxies. New Chandra data of two sources, viz., UGC00408 and UGC08433, are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Kharb , C. O'Dea , A. Tilak , S. Baum , E. Haynes , J. Noel-Storr , C. Fallon , K. Christiansen

As the third paper in the multiple-part series, we report the statistical properties of radio bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope…

We present Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) values derived at L- and P-band as well as some 60 Stokes-parameter profiles, both determined from our longstanding Arecibo dual-frequency pulsar polarimetry programs. Many of the RM measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 Joanna Rankin , Arun Venkataraman , Joel M. Weisberg , Alice P. Curtin