Optical circular polarization in quasars

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 520, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Hutsemekers D ^a   Borguet, B ^b   Sluse, D ^c   Cabanac, R ^d   Lamy, H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e Institut Belge d'Aéronomie Spatiale   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Polarization; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

BLAZARS; INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING; LINE OF SIGHT; LINEAR POLARIZATION; OPTICAL CONTINUUM; POLARIZATION DEGREE; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; QUASARS: GENERAL;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77957564305     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015359     Document Type: Article

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