Interstellar polarization and the position-angle orientations of type 1 Seyfert galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 363, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1241-1246

  Hoffman, Jennifer L ^a,c   Chornock, Ryan ^a   Leonard, Douglas C ^b,c   Filippenko, Alexei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: Seyfert; Polarization; Scattering; Techniques: polarimetric

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; PROBES; STARS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANGLE ORIENTATION; GALAXIES ACTIVE; GALAXY:SEYFERT; LINE OF SIGHT; POLAR REGIONS; POSITION ANGLE; SCATTERING REGIONS; SEYFERT GALAXIES; TECHNIQUES: POLARIMETRIC; UNCERTAINTY;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 27744474062     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09513.x     Document Type: Article

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