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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 374, Issue 2, Pages 409-414Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11186.x
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galaxies : individual : Arp 220; galaxies : magnetic fields; cosmic microwave background
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We report the results of pointed observations of the prototypical ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220 at 850 mu m using the polarimeter on the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We find a Bayesian 99 per cent confidence upper limit on the polarized emission for Arp 220 of 1.54 per cent, averaged over the 15-arcsec beam-size. Arp 220 can serve as a proxy for other, more distant such galaxies. This upper limit constrains the magnetic field geometry in Arp 220 and also provides evidence that polarized ULIRGs will not be a major contaminant for next-generation cosmic microwave background polarization measurements.
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