Evidence for the magnetic-field orientation in extragalactic radio sources
Abstract
The difference, Delta PA, between the structural and polarization angles was measured for 209 extragalactic radio sources. For highly polarized sources the distribution of Delta PA exhibits clear peaks at 90 and 0 degrees, with very few sources at intermediate values of Delta PA. As the polarization decreases, the distribution becomes smeared out, and the peak at Delta PA = 0 degrees vanishes rapidly.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/190.2.205
- Bibcode:
- 1980MNRAS.190..205C
- Keywords:
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- Extragalactic Radio Sources;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Histograms;
- Polarization Characteristics;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Astrophysics