MERLIN polarization observations of compact steep-spectrum sources at 5 GHz

Details MERLIN polarization observations of compact steep-spectrum sources at 5 GHz MERLIN polarization observations of compact steep-spectrum sources at 5 GHz

Sep 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.299..467l&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 299, Issue 2, pp. 467-478.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Polarization, Techniques: Miscellaneous, Galaxies: Ism, Galaxies: Jets, Radio Continuum: Galaxies

Scientific paper

We present polarization observations of 28 compact steep-spectrum sources made with the upgraded MERLIN at 5 GHz. With an angular resolution of 60 milliarcsec and rms noise levels of about 0.1 mJy beam^-1, the total intensity images reveal new details in many of these sources. A few of the more extended lobes and jets are quite highly polarized, but more than half of the components are completely unpolarized. Comparison with published data implies that this is due to Faraday depolarization, probably occurring in the surrounding medium with nB~1 cm^-3muG. The high resolution of the present observations implies that the variations in Faraday rotation, probably due to magnetic field tangling, occur on scales of less than about 100 pc.

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