Observations for the linear polarization of comet Hyakutake (C/1996B2) are carriedout at three continuumwavebands: 3650Å, 4845Å and 6840Å. These observations were taken on March 13 and March 18, 1996 when the phase angles were 38.1 and 36.9, respectively. These results indicate an increase in the degree of polarizationwith phase angle andwavelength, in general. Present results show that comet H...

Optical tweezers are widely used for the manipulation of cells and their internal structures. However, the degree of manipulation possible is limited by poor control over the orientation of trapped cells. We show that it is possible to controllably align or rotate disc shaped cells—chloroplasts of Spinacia oleracea—in a plane polarised Gaussian beam trap, using optical torques resulting predomi...

the aisi 316 l stainless steel (ss) specimens were exposed to passivation surface through two different processes including; holding in 40-vol% hno3 at temperature of 60 ºc for 30 min and 15-vol%h2so4 at ambient temperature for 1 hour. the corrosion behavior of specimens was evaluated in physiological solutions by electrochemical in vitro tests through linear and tafel polarization tests. cycli...

At present three pulsars are known which clearly show a strongly increasing degree of circular polarization with frequency. As this is accompanied by a smooth decrease of linear polarization, we investigate, if this observation can be explained through a propagation mode transition from linear to circular polarization. Using a previously published model we find that the rate of change of the po...

We present polarisation profiles for 48 southern pulsars observed with the new 10cm receiver at the Parkes telescope. We have exploited the low system temperature and high bandwidth of the receiver to obtain profiles which have good signal to noise for most of our sample at this relatively high frequency. Although, as expected, a number of profiles are less linearly polarised at 3.1 GHz than at...

We implement a dynamical model that describes the polarization behavior in VCSELs containing an absorbing region surrounding the active zone. We find four regions of qualitative different behaviors: stable linearly-polarized operation, intensity pulsations of a linearly-polarized component, pulsations of both total intensity and polarization components, and polarization self-pulsations with con...

We present the recent discovery of linear polarization of the optical afterglow of GRB 990510. Effects that could introduce spurious polarization are discussed, showing that they do not apply to the case of GRB 990510, which is then intrinsically polarized. It will be shown that this observation constrains the emission mechanism of the afterglow radiation, the geometry of the fireball and degre...

It is noted that the weak pulsar theory predicts very high linear polarization of gamma radiation for the Geminga-like pulsars. In the bridge region, the degree of polarization reaches almost 75%, with an approximately constant position angle. Within the pulses, the position angle changes, and the degree of polarization drops considerably. But even the pulse-integrated emission is expected to b...

Observational data for dusty comets are summarized and systemized. The dependence of the linear polarization on various parameters (the phase angle, wavelength, etc.) is analyzed. An ensemble of aligned spheroidal particles having various sizes and chemical compositions is used to fit the linear and circular polarization observed for the comet Halley.

We summarize the current state of polarization observations of Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source and supermassive black hole candidate in the Galactic Center. These observations are providing new tools for understanding accretion disks, jets and their environments. Linear polarization observations have shown that Sgr A* is unpolarized at frequencies as high as 86 GHz. However, recent sin...