Biases in the polarization position angles in the NRAO-VLA sky survey point source catalogue

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 385, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 274-282

  Battye, R A ^a   Browne, I W A ^a   Jackson, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Polarization; Surveys

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLUX DENSITIES; GALACTIC LATITUDE; GALAXIES ACTIVE; INFORMATION CONCERNING; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; POINT-SOURCES; POLARIZATION ANGLE; POSITION ANGLE; STOKES PARAMETERS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

SURVEYS;

EID: 41649113533     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12785.x     Document Type: Article

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