Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 395, Issue 1, Pages 504-517Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14556.x
Keywords
polarization; galaxies: active; galaxies: magnetic fields; cosmic microwave background; radio continuum: galaxies
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- Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship
- ASI
- MUR
- ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship [DP0665973]
- Australian Research Council [DP0665973] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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We present the wide-field imaging and polarimetry at nu = 20 GHz of seven most extended, bright (S-total = 0.50 Jy), high-frequency selected radio sources in the southern sky with declinations delta < -30 degrees. Accompanying the data are brief reviews of the literature for each source. The results presented here aid in the statistical completeness of the Australia Telescope 20-GHz Survey: the Bright Source Sample. The data are of crucial interest for future cosmic microwave background missions as a collection of information about candidate calibrator sources. We were able to obtain data for seven of the nine sources identified by our selection criteria. We report that Pictor A is thus far the best extragalactic calibrator candidate for the Low Frequency Instrument of the Planck European Space Agency mission due to its high level of integrated polarized flux density (similar to 0.50 +/- 0.06 Jy) on a scale of 10 arcmin. Six out of the seven sources have a clearly detected compact radio core in our images, with either a null detection or less than 2 per cent detection of polarized emission from the nuclei. Most sources with detected jets have magnetic field alignments running in a longitudinal configuration, however, PKS 1333-33 exhibits transverse fields and an orthogonal change in field geometry from nucleus to jets.
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