Broadband polarisation of radio AGN Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. O'Sullivan S.P.
  2. Purcell C.R.
  3. Anderson C.S.
  4. Farnes J.S.
  5. Sun X.H.,Gaensler B.M.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the results from a broadband (1 to 3GHz), spectro-polarimetry study of the integrated emission from 100 extragalactic radio sources with the ATCA, selected to be highly linearly polarized at 1.4 GHz. We use a general purpose, polarization model-fitting procedure that describes the Faraday rotation measure (RM) and intrinsic polarization structure of up to three distinct polarized emission regions or 'RM components' of a source. Overall, 37%/52%/11% of sources are best fit by one/two/three RM components. However, these fractions are dependent on the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) in polarization (more RM components more likely at higher S/N). In general, our analysis shows that sources with high integrated degrees of polarization at 1.4GHz have low Faraday depolarization, are typically dominated by a single RM component, have a steep spectral index, and a high intrinsic degree of polarization. After classifying our sample into radiative-mode and jet-mode AGN, we find no significant difference between the Faraday rotation or Faraday depolarization properties of jet-mode and radiative-mode AGN. However, there is a statistically significant difference in the intrinsic degree of polarization between the two types, with the jet-mode sources having more intrinsically ordered magnetic field structures than the radiative-mode sources. We also find a preferred perpendicular orientation of the intrinsic magnetic field structure of jet-mode AGN with respect to the jet direction, while no clear preference is found for the radiative-mode sources.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. polarimetry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017MNRAS.469.4034O
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74694034

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2017-09-22T08:34:30Z
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2017-09-22T08:34:30Z
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