Interstellar Scintillations of Polarization of Compact Sources

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1999-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910322v1

ApJL, 532, L63 (2000)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, emilateapj.sty. Submitted to ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/312554

We demostrate that the measurement of fluctuations of polarization due to the galactic interstellar scintillations may be used to study the structure of the radiation field at compact radio sources. We develop a mathematical formalism and demonstrate it on a simple analytical model in which the scale of the polarization variation through the source is comparable to the source size. The predicted amplitude of modulation of the polarized radiation flux is ~20% x (pi_s) x (m_sc), where (pi_s) is the characteristic degree of polarization of radiation at the source and (m_sc) is the typical modulation index due to scattering, i.e., (m_sc)~1 for diffractive scintillations and (m_sc)<1 for refractive scintillations.

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