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Polarized Optical and Infrared Emission from High Redshift Radio Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Buell T. Jannuzi
Buell T. Jannuzi*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA

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We have detected highly polarized (> 5%) optical and/or infrared emission (rest frame UV to near infrared) from 5 of the 8 high redshift radio galaxies (HZRG; z > 0.7) we have observed. There are now a total of 9 (out of 12 observed) HZRG known to be polarized in spatially integrated measurements (cf.). We have made images of the extended polarized emission from two radio galaxies (3C 265 and 3C 256). Detection of extended polarized emission from a HZRG has previously been reported for 3C 368. All of the existing polarization observations support the hypothesis that the “alignment effect” (the tendency of the extended UV light to be aligned with the extended radio emission, e.g.) is not solely produced by a burst of star formation, but contains a very significant component produced by the scattering of the light from a hidden active galactic nucleus (AGN). Our modeling of the frequency dependence of the polarized flux from 3C 265 suggests that the most probable scatterer is dust.

Type
Poster Contributions: Polarisation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 470
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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