The problem of transfer of radiation in a medium with polarized emission,
polarized absorption and Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization
is formulated. Solutions are obtained for the case of a homogeneous source.
In the range of frequencies for which a medium is optically thick the degree
of polarization of synchrotron radiation depends on the type of absorption
process and is different for synchrotron absorption and for thermal absorption.
It is therefore suggested that the low frequency polarization
measurements of radio sources with curved spectra may determine whether
synchrotron self -absorption or thermal absorption or another process is
responsible for the low frequency curvature in spectra of certain radio
sources.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623812 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Pacholczyk, A. G., Swihart, T. L. |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Steward Observ |
| Publisher | Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Article |
| Source | Steward Observatory Parker Library SO QB 4 .S752 ARCH |
| Rights | Copyright © All Rights Reserved. |
| Relation | Preprints of the Steward Observatory #5, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1967ApJ...150..647P&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=3ed65e9cd010295 |
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