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Photon orbital angular momentum in astrophysics

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 597, Issue 2, Pages 1266-1270

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/378623

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black hole physics; cosmic microwave background; extraterrestrial intelligence; instrumentation : miscellaneous; ISM : general; masers

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Astronomical observations of the orbital angular momentum of photons, a property of electromagnetic radiation that has come to the fore in recent years, have apparently never been attempted. Here I show how measurements of this property of photons have a number of astrophysical applications.

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