A circular statistical method for extracting rotation measures

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 328, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 623-634

  Sarala, S ^a   Jain, Pankaj ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Galaxies: magnetic fields; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Polarization

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

DATAPOINTS; GALAXIES: MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MINIMISATION; MINIMIZATION PROCEDURES; NUMBER OF DATUM; POLARIZATION DATA; SPECTRAL POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 0041907153     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04932.x     Document Type: Article

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