Rotation measure image of the sky

DOI

We have re-analyzed the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) data to derive rotation measures (RMs) toward 37543 polarized radio sources. The resulting catalog of RM values covers the sky area north of declination -40{deg} with an average density of more than one RM per square degree. We have identified five regions of the sky where the foreground median RM is consistently less than 1rad/m^2^ over several degrees. These holes in the foreground RM will be useful for future studies of possible small-scale fluctuations in cosmic magnetic field structures. In addition to allowing measurement of RMs toward polarized sources, the new analysis of the NVSS data removes the effects of bandwidth depolarization for |RM|>~100rad/m^2^ inherent in the original NVSS source catalog.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/702/1230/catalog (NVSS rotation measure catalog)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.17021230
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/702/1230
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/702/1230
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/702/1230
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/702/1230
Provenance
Creator Taylor A.R.; Stil J.M.; Sunstrum C.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2011
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysical Processes; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Exoplanet Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics