The Orientation of the Magnetic Field in Radio Sources
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- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Vol. 173 (1) , 53P-56P
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/173.1.53p
Abstract
Recent data on the polarization of extragalactic radio sources are used to investigate the distribution of ∆, the angle between the major axis of a source and the intrinsic position angle of the E vector of linear polarization. Previous work on this subject has led to widely divergent conclusions. We find that sources of high radio luminosity usually have ∆ near 90°, implying that the magnetic fields in such sources are oriented along the major axis. For radio galaxies with low luminosity, on the other hand, ∆ tends to lie nearer 0°.Keywords
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