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NVSS点源目录中偏振位置角的偏差

Biases in the polarization position angles in the NVSS point source catalogue

R. A. Battye, I. W. A. Browne, N. Jackson

摘要:

我们研究了NRAO-VLA巡天(NVSS)中确定的点源偏振位置角的统计数据,发现有一个统计上显着的偏置角是45度的倍数。从均匀分布中提取偏振角的形式概率是指数小的。当用信噪比$\geq$ 3检测到的具有偏振的NVSS源的样本围绕中值偏振通量密度或中值分数偏振被分割时,对于更高度偏振的源,效果似乎更强。包含强源的区域和银河系低纬度区域并不是位置角分布不均匀的原因。我们确定清洁偏置的主导效应的可能原因,再加上小的乘法和加法偏移的每个斯托克斯参数。我们的发现对科学的提取有影响,例如从大尺度极化调查中提取有关银河系磁场的信息。

英文摘要:

We have examined the statistics of the polarization position angles determined for point sources in the NRAO-VLA sky survey (NVSS) and find that there is a statistically significant bias toward angles which are multiples of 45 degrees. The formal probability that the polarization angles are drawn from a uniform distribution is exponentially small. When the sample of those NVSS sources with polarizations detected with a signal to noise $\geq$3 is split either around the median polarized flux density or the median fractional polarization, the effect appears to be stronger for the more highly polarized sources. Regions containing strong sources and regions at low galactic latitudes are not responsible for the non-uniform distribution of position angles. We identify CLEAN bias as the probable cause of the dominant effect, coupled with small multiplicative and additive offsets on each of the Stokes parameters. Our findings have implications for the extraction of science, such as information concerning galactic magnetic fields, from large scale polarization surveys.

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