Prior to IXPE, scientists predicted X-ray polarization would be produced by magnetic fields that are aligned at 90 degrees (perpendicular ) to magnetic fields that polarize the radio wave radiation.

The largest radio telescope FAST detects 90% circular polarization and rapidly changing linear polarization in the bursts of a fast radio burst (FRB) repeater, imposing new constraint on radiative ...

Researchers observed high variability in the FRB's Faraday rotation — a change in the radio waves' polarization, which happens when it passes through magnetic fields.

A particle detector flying above Antarctica has detected highly unusual radio pulses coming from beneath the ice. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment floats a range of ...

Polarization means that all the waves in a beam of light (or radio signal, which is just very, very long wavelengths of the same sort of energy as light) are oriented in the same direction.

Unlike visible light or radio waves, terhartz waves can reveal structural details of biological molecules and penetrate nonmetallic objects like clothing and paper. However to harness them effectively ...

A Dazzling Burst of Radio Waves Ignited Near a Dead Star Learn how researchers have interpreted the story of one particular fast radio burst that emerged from a neutron star 200 million light-years ...

Circular polarization is less susceptible to signal fading since the polarization most easily propagated is achieved whatever the intervening propagation environment might happen to be. In ham radio, ...

Between 50 and 1,000 kilometers above our heads is the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere consisting of charged ...

Terahertz (THz) waves, situated on the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light, hold promise for applications in wireless communication and medical imaging. However ...