Interstellar Polarization
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Symposium - International Astronomical Union
- Vol. 52, 145-152
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900054164
Abstract
A review of observational data on interstellar polarization is given. The degree of fluctuation in the direction of the galactic magnetic field is discussed. An empirical formula is given which fits all the observations of the wavelength dependence of interstellar polarization when they are normalized with the wavelength λmax of maximum polarization. Well-defined regions on the sky with values of λmax deviating from an average are found. Values of λmax are correlated with the ratio of total to selective interstellar extinction. A unified wavelength dependence of interstellar extinction is obtained by normalizing the observations with the wavelength λmax of maximum interstellar polarization.Keywords
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