Cornering the axion-like particle explanation of quasar polarisations

Details Cornering the axion-like particle explanation of quasar polarisations Cornering the axion-like particle explanation of quasar polarisations

2012-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/1203.5299v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages; no figures; accepted for publication as a Brief Report in Physical Review D

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In a series of paper, it has been shown that the distribution of polarisation position angles for visible light from quasars is not random in extremely large regions of the sky. As explained in a recent article, the measurement of vanishing circular polarisation for such quasars is an important problem for a mechanism involving the mixing with axion-like particles in external magnetic fields. In this note, we stress that a recent report of similar coherent orientations of polarisation in radiowaves further disfavours the need for such particles, as an effect at these wavelengths would be extremely suppressed or would directly contradict data.

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