PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 444 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Multi Messenger and Gravitational Wave (MM&GW)
TELAMON: Effelsberg Monitoring of AGN Jets with Very-High-Energy Astroparticle Emissions - Polarization properties
J. Hessdoerfer*, M. Kadler, P. Benke, L. Debbrecht, J. Eich, F. Eppel, A. Gokus, S. Hämmerich, D. Kirchner, G. Paraschos, F. Rösch, W. Schulga, J.L. Sinapius, P. Weber, U. Bach, D. Berge, S. Buson, D. Dorner, P.G. Edwards, C.M. Fromm, M. Giroletti, O. Hervet, A. Kappes, S. Koyama, A. Kraus, T. Krichbaum, E. Lindfors, K. Mannheim, R. de Menezes, R. Ojha, E. Pueschel, E. Ros, B. Schleicher, J. Sitarek, J. Wilms, M. Zacharias and J.A. Zensuset al. (click to show)
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Abstract
We present recent results of the TELAMON program, which is using the Effelsberg 100-m telescope to monitor the radio spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) under scrutiny in astroparticle physics, namely TeV blazars and neutrino-associated AGN.
Our sample includes all known Northern TeV-emitting blazars as well as blazars positionally coincident with IceCube neutrino alerts.
Polarization can give additional insight into the source properties, as the polarized emission is often found to vary on different timescales and amplitudes than the total intensity emission.
Here, we present an overview of the polarization properties of the TeV-emitting TELAMON sources at four frequencies in the 20 mm and 7 mm bands.
While at 7 mm roughly $82\,\%$ of all observed sources are found to be significantly polarized, for 20 mm the percentage is $\sim58\,\%$.
We find that most of the sources exhibit mean fractional polarizations of $<5\%$, matching the expectations of rather low polarization levels in these sources from previous studies at lower radio frequencies.
Nevertheless, we demonstrate examples of how the polarized emission can provide additional information over the total intensity.ost of the sources exhibit mean fractional polarizations of <5%, matching the expectations of rather low polarization levels in these sources from the literature.
Nevertheless, we demonstrate examples of how the polarized emission can provide additional information over the total intensity.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1545
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