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ISS of Polarized Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Barney Rickett
Barney Rickett*
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.

Abstract

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It is shown that the detailed inter-relations of the 8.6 GHz IDV in Stokes’ parameters I, Q and U of the quasar 0405-385, as quantified by their auto and cross correlations, can be successfully modelled by interstellar scintillation (ISS) of a double source with two components separated by about 10 micro-arcseconds. Though this is not a unique source model it confirms that ISS can explain quantitatively the rapid variations in both flux and linear polarization. Thus there is no evidence in support of an intrinsic component in the IDV.

Keywords

InterstellarscintillationAGNpolarization
Type
Chapter Three Intra-Day Variability, Gravitational Lensing and Polarization
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 182: Sources and Scintillations: Refraction and Scattering in Radio Astronomy , 2001 , pp. 129 - 134
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2001

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