Ricean bias in the linear polarization - VSOP-2ホームページ莱斯的偏见在线性偏振vsop-2ホームページ.pptVIP

On the multi-frequency data analysis of the inner-jet regions Bong Won Sohn Korean VLBI Network Korea Astronomy Space Science Institute Motivation Polarimetry is an important tool for AGN study Highlighted by Jorstad’s talk Diversity in polarization/depolarization Also in many talks yesterday today Polarization information is essential Rotation Measure, RM Faraday conversion – circular polarization Fractional linear polarization, m(λ) Distribution of Faraday medium RM, m(λ), CP – Burn (1966), Gardner Whiteoak (1966), and many authors High freq. VLBI in few years Improved phase referencing More accurate relative position (Agudo, yesterday) + Higher resolution – VSOP-2 + Higher sensitivity - KVN (multi-freq.), VERA (dual-beam), big dishes (Yebes, SRT, GBT, Effelsberg, Nobeyama, ...) Full polarization mode (VSOP-2, KVN, ...) Of course, VLBA should be there! Faint objects can be imaged e.g. Middelberg et al. (2005) VLBA with freq. switching phase ref. : 0.78mJy/beam NGC4261 at 86GHz (much more) sensitive (polarization) imaging of Blazars at high frequency Recurrent activities in GRGs, Young radio galaxies Many other sources... KVN phase referencing Multi-frequency simultaneous observation 22, 43, 86, 129GHz ? longer integration time Motivation Polarimetry is an important tool for AGN study Highlighted by Jorstad’s talk Diversity in polarization/depolarization Also in many talks yesterday Polarization information is essential Rotation Measure, RM Faraday conversion – circular polarization Fractional linear polarization, m(λ) Distribution of Faraday medium Fractional Polarization Polarized flux : Ip= (Q2+U2)0.5 Fractional polarization : m = Ip/I Depolarization measure (DP) : mlow/mhigh DP 1 ; depolarized DP 1 ; re-polarized DP ~ 1 ; fully resolved Faraday screen Positivity of Ip= (Q2+U2)0.5 Rice distribution – distribution of absolute value of a Gaussian distribution (V,σ) (Vinokur 1965) For , it becomes a Rayleigh distribution. For