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Circular Polarisation in AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Jean-Pierre Macquart
Jean-Pierre Macquart*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; jpm@physics.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

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We discuss the constraints that recent observations place on circular polarisation in AGN. In many sources the circular polarisation is variable on short timescales, indicating that it originates in compact regions of the sources. The best prospects for gleaning further information about circular polarisation are high resolution VLBI and scintillation ‘imaging’ which probe source structure on milliarcsecond and microarcsecond scales respectively.

Keywords

polarisationgalaxies: activegalaxies: nucleiscattering
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 43 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2002

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