Large-scale alignment of optical polarizations from distant QSOs using coordinate-invariant statistics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 347, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 394-402

  Jain, Pankaj ^a   Narain, Gaurav ^a   Sarala, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Elementary particles; Magnetic fields; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Polarization; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ALIGNMENT EFFECTS; DATA SAMPLE; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; LARGE-SCALES; MAGNETIC-FIELD; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; QUASARS:GENERAL; QUASI-STELLAR OBJECTS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0346968200     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07169.x     Document Type: Article

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