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The polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background radiation can be rotated either in a magnetized plasma or in the presence of a quintessential background with pseudoscalar coupling to electromagnetism. A unified treatment of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

We study the polarization of light emitted by spatially correlated sources. We show that in general polarization acquires nontrivial spectral dependence due to spatial correlations. The spectral dependence is found to be absent only for a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-06 Krishna Bhuvalka , Pankaj Jain

Radiative emission from a semi-infinite unflanged circular cylindrical dielectric waveguide or optical fiber is studied for the case of axisymmetric modes of TM polarization on the basis of an iterative scheme. The first step of the scheme…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-30 B. U. Felderhof

Non-equilibrium quantum rings emit circular polarized subterahertz radiation with a polarization degree controllable on nano- to picosecond time scales. This we conclude using a theory developed here for the time-dependent detection of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Moskalenko , J. Berakdar

We investigate the mechanism of extraordinary optical transmission in subwave-length metal hole arrays. Experimental results for the arrays consisting of square or rectangle holes are well explained about the dependence of transmission…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-08 Qian Zhao , Chao Li , Yun-Song Zhou , Huai-Yu Wang

We present a formalism for analyzing a full-sky temperature and polarization map of the cosmic microwave background. Temperature maps are analyzed by expanding over the set of spherical harmonics to give multipole moments of the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Albert Stebbins

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation will have a distribution of singularities and anti-singularities, points where the polarization vanishes for topological reasons. The statistics of polarization singularities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dragan Huterer , Tanmay Vachaspati

The influence has been studied of the ionization laser polarization on the effective temperature of an ultracold electron source, which is based on near-threshold photoionization. This source is capable of producing both high-intensity and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 W. J. Engelen , D. J. Bakker , O. J. Luiten , E. J. D. Vredenbregt

We have measured, using a custom setup, the emissivity of metallic wire-grids, suitable for polarimeters and interferometers at mm and far infrared wavelengths. We find that the effective emissivity of these devices is of the order of a few…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alessandro Schillaci , Elia Battistelli , Giuseppe D' Alessandro , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi

The changes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum seen as an increase of temperature due to a strong magnetic field are determined and their influence on the polarization of the radiation is exhibited. The effect is due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Zofia Bialynicka-Birula , Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

Polarization of electromagnetic waves carries a large amount of information about their astrophysical emitters and the media they passed through, and hence is crucial in various aspects of astronomy. Here we demonstrate an important but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background, though not yet detected, provides a source of information about cosmological parameters complementary to temperature fluctuations. This paper provides a complete theoretical treatment of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Arthur Kosowsky

Using the gaseous disk model and the condition for emission based on a stimulated origin of thermal radio emission (Prigara 2003), we received the wavelength dependence of polarization for radio emission from active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. V. Prigara

We predict the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons that results from a cosmic bubble collision. The polarization is purely E-mode, symmetric around the axis pointing towards the collision bubble, and has several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bartlomiej Czech , Matthew Kleban , Klaus Larjo , Thomas S. Levi , Kris Sigurdson

The beamed radio emission from relativistic plasma (particles or bunches), constrained to move along the curved trajectories, occurs in the direction of velocity. We have generalized the coherent curvature radiation model to include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 R. T. Gangadhara

The results of numerical calculations of linear polarization from magnetized spherical optically thick and optically thin envelopes are presented. We give the methods how to distinguish magnetized optically thin envelopes from optically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , M. Yu. Piotrovich , M. A. Pogodin

Microlensing of extended stellar sources in the LMC and Galaxy by low mass lenses can produce variable polarisation. The characteristics of the polarisation and flux profiles can provide considerable information about the lens geometry, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. F. L. Simmons , A. M. Newsam , J. P. Willis

We calculate the polarization of radiation from thick accretion disks with vertically averaged global magnetic field. The polarization arises as a result of the radiation scattering by free electrons in magnetized plasma of a disk. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , P. S. Shternin

We calculate all the elements of the Mueller matrix, which contains all the polarization properties of light scattered from a two-dimensional randomly rough lossy metal surface. The calculations are carried out for arbitrary angles of…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-12 Paul Anton Letnes , Alexei A. Maradudin , Tor Nordam , Ingve Simonsen

With the increasing number of experiments dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background, interest on the detailed properties of the foreground Galactic emission has risen. In particular the focus is shifting towards…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-20 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes