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Observation and interpretation of optical and radio polarization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

G. Westerhout
G. Westerhout*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland

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Measurements of polarization of radio emission from the galactic background were started in 1957 and seemed to be partially successful, but so uncertain that not much weight was attached to them. Only in the last two years have such polarization measurements been fully successful. They were carried out by radio astronomers at Leiden, Cambridge, and Sydney. I shall report here on the measurements made by the Leiden group, and draw some general conclusions. The first year of observations was described by Westerhout et al. (1962) and Brouw, Muller, and Tinbergen (1962); the work has been continued since by Muller, Brouw, Tinbergen, and Berkhuysen (1963). The observations made by the Cambridge group are substantially in agreement with the Leiden work (Wielebinski, Shakeshaft, and Pauliny-Toth 1962), and so are the Sydney observations, on which Dr. Gardner reports in another paper (this volume, paper 35).

Type
Section 1: The Galaxy
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 20: The Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds , 1964 , pp. 139 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Academy of Science 1964 

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