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The Physical Nature of Spurious Polarization Transformed from the Background Nonpolarized Radiation of Cosmic Extended Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Chu Han-Shu
Chu Han-Shu*
Affiliation:
Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

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Polarized radiation of cosmic radio sources carries the important information of the radiation mechanism and magnetic field structure of the sources. The background nonpolarized radiation of extended radio sources may also be partly transformed into spurious polarization. No comprehensive theory concerning the whole physical process of radiation transfer has been developed.

Type
Extragalactic
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 157 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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