Circular Polarization in two Active Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Circular Polarization in two Active Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
المؤلفون: Feng, Yi, Zhang, Yong-Kun, Li, Di, Yang, Yuan-Pei, Wang, Pei, Niu, Chen-Hui, Dai, Shi, Yao, Ju-Mei
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
الوصف: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information about the radiation processes, the environment, and the intervening medium of FRBs. Here we report circular polarization detections of two active repeating FRBs, namely FRBs 20121102A and 20190520B, with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope. We detect circular polarization in both active repeating FRBs, which increases the number of repeating FRBs with circular polarization to three. In one of the bursts of FRB 20121102A, we detect 64% degree of circular polarization. The observed circular polarization is unlikely induced by multipath propagation. Our observations favor circular polarization induced by Faraday conversion or radiation mechanism intrinsic to the FRB source. The conditions to generate circular polarization have to be rare in either case.
Comment: 9pages, 3 figures, and 1 table, published in Science Bulletin
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2022.11.014
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05873
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2212.05873
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.scib.2022.11.014