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2021MNRAS.500..576L - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 500, 576-589 (2021/January-1)

Broad-band radio polarimetry of disc galaxies and AGN with KAT-7.

LEGODI L.S., TAYLOR A.R. and STIL J.M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report broad-band (1.2-1.9 GHz) radio continuum observations at arcminute resolutions of two nearby disc galaxies, NGC 1808 and NGC 1097, and four active galactic nuclei (AGN)-powered radio sources: PKS B1934-638, PKS B0407-658, J0240-231, and J0538-440. We use rotation measure synthesis to analyse their Faraday complexity. Observations were made with the seven-dish Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) radio telescope array, in South Africa. The AGN-powered sources fall into two 'Faraday' categories - simple and complex. The most polarized sources, J0538-440 and J0240-231, are found to have complex Faraday spectra that can be time variable (J0538-440 case) and also indicative of complex Faraday emitting and rotating components along the line of sight. PKS B0407-658 shows a simple Faraday spectrum, while PKS B1934-638 is undetected in polarization. The disc galaxies are classified as complex, albeit at low signal-to-noise ratio. This may indicate depolarization due to turbulence of the magnetized plasma in the bar and circumnuclear regions and/or frequency-dependent depolarization at L band.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): polarization - galaxies: magnetic fields - radio continuum: galaxies

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