A polarization survey of bright extragalactic AT20G sources

Massardi, M., Burke-Spolaor, S. G., Murphy, T., Ricci, R., Lopez-Caniego, M., Negrello, Mattia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7925-7663, Chhetri, R., De Zotti, G., Ekers, R. D., Partridge, R. B. and Sadler, E. M. 2013. A polarization survey of bright extragalactic AT20G sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 436 (4) , p. 2915. 10.1093/mnras/stt1717

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Abstract

We present polarization data for 180 extragalactic sources extracted from the Australia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) survey catalogue and observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array during a dedicated, high sensitivity run (σP ∼ 1 mJy). For the sake of completeness, we extracted the polarization information for seven extended sources from the 9 yr Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe co-added maps at 23 GHz. The full sample of 187 sources constitutes a ≃99 per cent complete sample of extragalactic sources brighter than S20GHz = 500 mJy at the selection epoch with declination δ < −30°. The sample has a 91.4 per cent detection rate in polarization at ∼20 GHz (94 per cent if considering the subsample of point-like sources). We have measurements also at 4.8 and 8.6 GHz within ∼1 month of the 20 GHz observations for 172 sources to reconstruct the spectral properties of the sample in total intensity and in polarization: 143 of them have a polarization detection at all three frequencies. We find that there is no statistically significant evidence of a relationship either between the fraction of polarization and frequency or between the fraction of polarization and the total intensity flux density. This indicates that Faraday depolarization is not very important above 4.8 GHz and that the magnetic field is not substantially more ordered in the regions dominating the emission at higher frequencies (up to 20 GHz). We estimate the distribution of the polarization fraction and the polarized flux density source counts at ∼20 GHz.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	polarization; techniques: polarimetric; surveys; galaxies: active; radio continuum: galaxies
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	00358711
Date of Acceptance:	10 September 2013
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/84007

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