Browsing by Subject "Galaxies-infrared"

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    • Highly polarized structures in the near-nuclear regions of Cygnus A: Intrinsic anisotropy within the cones? 

      Tadhunter, Clive; Sparks, William; Axon, David; Bergeron, Louis; Jackson, Neal; Packham, Christopher; Hough, James; Robinson, Andrew; Young, Stuart (Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2000-04)
      We present near-IR imaging polarimetry observations of the nucleus of Cygnus A, taken with the NICMOS camera of the HST at a wavelength of 2.0µm. These maps reveal a highly collimated region of polarized emission straddling ...