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Linear polarization structures in LOFAR observations of the interstellar medium in the 3C196 field by Jelić, V.; de Bruyn, A. G.; Pandey, V. N.; Mevius, M.; Haverkorn, M.; Brentjens, M. A.; Koopmans, L. V. E.; Zaroubi, S.; Abdalla, F. B.; Asad, K. M. B.; Bus, S.; Chapman, E.; Ciardi, B.; Fernandez, E. R.; Ghosh, A.; Harker, G.; Iliev, I. T.; Jensen, H.; Kazemi, S.; Mellema, G.; Offringa, A. R.; Patil, A. H.; Vedantham, H. K.; Yatawatta, S. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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This study aims to characterize linear polarization structures in LOFAR observations of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the 3C196 field, one of the primary fields of the LOFAR-Epoch of Reionization key science project. We have used the high band antennas (HBA) of LOFAR to image this region and Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis to unravel the distribution of polarized structures in Faraday depth. The brightness temperature of the detected Galactic emission is $5-15~{\rm K}$ in polarized intensity and covers the range from -3 to +8 ${\rm rad~m^{-2}}$ in Faraday depth. The most interesting morphological feature is a strikingly straight filament at a Faraday depth of $+0.5~{\rm rad~m^{-2}}$ running from north to south, right through the centre of the field and parallel to the Galactic plane. There is also an interesting system of linear depolarization canals conspicuous in an image showing the peaks of Faraday spectra. We used the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 350 MHz to image the same region. For the first time, we see some common morphology in the RM cubes made at 150 and 350~{\rm MHz}. There is no indication of diffuse emission in total intensity in the interferometr

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Jelić, V.; de Bruyn, A. G.; Pandey, V. N.; Mevius, M.; Haverkorn, M.; Brentjens, M. A.; Koopmans, L. V. E.; Zaroubi, S.; Abdalla, F. B.; Asad, K. M. B.; Bus, S.; Chapman, E.; Ciardi, B.; Fernandez, E. R.; Ghosh, A.; Harker, G.; Iliev, I. T.; Jensen, H.; Kazemi, S.; Mellema, G.; Offringa, A. R.; Patil, A. H.; Vedantham, H. K.; Yatawatta, S.

Published

2015

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EN