Polarization of radio cores and the unified scheme

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Aug 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.298l..45s&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 298, Issue 3, pp. L45-L48.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Nuclei, Quasars: General, Radio Continuum: Galaxies

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In the unified scheme for high-luminosity radio galaxies and quasars, the core-dominated quasars are seen at small angles to the line of sight and the lobe-dominated quasars at intermediate angles, while the radio galaxies lie close to the plane of the sky. In radio galaxies, the quasar nucleus is hidden from our view by a putative torus. Such a scenario should also affect the observed polarization properties of the cores, with the core-dominated quasars, lobe-dominated quasars and radio galaxies having progressively lower core polarization at a given frequency and higher rotation measure because of Faraday effects. In this paper, we report that the core polarization of weak-cored quasars has a median value of less than about 0.4 per cent and is indeed much smaller than for core-dominated quasars, where the median value is about 2.5 per cent. We suggest that this might be a result of the depolarization caused by the edge of the obscuring torus or disc. We also examine the relative orientation of the core-polarization E-vector at λ6cm and the radio axis for the weak-cored quasars. The sample is small but does not show the significant trend reported earlier for cores of moderate strength. This could also be the result of Faraday rotation by the material in the edge of the torus or disc. These results are consistent with the basic ideas of the unified scheme.

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