16–17 Jul 2020
Australia/Perth timezone

All-sky results from the POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS)

16 Jul 2020, 14:20
20m
GEG Science

Speaker

Christopher Riseley (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna)

Description

Historically, the low-frequency linearly-polarised radio source population has remained largely unexplored. However, the advent of new instrumentation in the SKA Pathfinder and Precursor era, plus recent advances in supercomputing and data processing techniques, have enabled a renaissance in this field.

In this talk, I will present the results of the POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS), our all-sky MWA Phase I Rotation Measure (RM) survey, which covers almost the entire Southern sky between Dec. -82 and Dec. +30 at a reference frequency of 200 MHz. I will present our catalogue of low-frequency detections of known pulsars, and what our precision RMs (typically more than an order of magnitude more precise than previous measurements) allow us to infer about the magnetised ISM of the Milky Way. I will also discuss the linear polarisation properties of the low-frequency extragalactic radio source population, including what the bulk properties of our sample can tell us about the magnetised IGM, and I will present for the first time an initial investigation of the low-frequency polarised radio source counts.

Suggested presentation duration (minutes) 15-20

Primary author

Christopher Riseley (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna)

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