Radio sources with ultrahigh polarization

A sample of 129 unresolved radio sources with ultrahigh linear polarization (>30%) has been selected from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. Such high average linear polarization is unusual in extragalactic sources. Higher resolution Australia Telescope Compact Array and Very Large Array observations confirm the high average polarization but find that most of these sources are extended. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy, where available, shows that the optical counterparts are elliptical galaxies with no detectable emission lines. The optical spectra, radio luminosity, linear size and spectral index of these sources are typical of radio-loud active galactic nuclei.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/409/821/table1 (The sample of 129 ultrahigh polarization radio sources selected from the NVSS)

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/409/821/table2 (High-resolution observations at 1.4GHz with the ATCA, VLA and FIRST survey)

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/409/821/table4 (Optical identifications with the SDSS)

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/409/821
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/409/821
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/409/821
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/409/821
Provenance
Creator Shi H.; Liang H.; Han J.L.; Hunstead R.W.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2012
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Exoplanet Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics