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Evaluating the Alignment of the Polarized Radio Waves from 27 Qsos in a Region Near the NGP

Authors: Richard Shurtleff

The sample of 27 quasars with polarized radio emissions located in a region near the North Galactic Pole is shown to have highly aligned polarization directions. Furthermore, by extending their polarization directions around the Celestial Sphere, the convergence of their polarization directions is close to the sources. Thus, parallax forces the position angles to vary with locations of individual sources. The QSOs are taken from the JVAS1450 subset of the JVAS/CLASS 8.4-GHz surveys. The alignment is analyzed by the Hub Test. Fewer than about 70,000 randomly directed such samples would be as well aligned, a 4\[Sigma] result. Some underlying calculations are presented in a Mathematica-coded Appendix. Access to a .nb notebook is provided in the references.

Comments: 10 page article plus a 51 page Appendix of calculations; 25 Figures; 17 References

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[v1] 2021-05-16 09:44:02
[v2] 2021-11-06 08:46:19

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