It is shown that Legendrian (resp. transverse) cable links in S with its standard tight contact structure, i.e. links consisting of an unknot and a cable of that unknot, are classified by their oriented link type and the classical invariants (Thurston-Bennequin invariant and rotation number in the Legendrian case, self-linking number in the transverse case). The analogous result is proved for t...

Students from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) are currently in the process of building a fully functional microsatellite named 'Pratham', which is slated for launch by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in the fourth quarter of 2010. The satellite being built is a 260 mm cube and weighs nearly 10kg. This landmark project has completed the phases of Requirements Capture, ...

in order to investigating theeffects of  crop rotation and applying of herbicides on weed distribution in  irrigated wheat fields of kermanshah province, this study was performed during  2011-2012. multivariate analysis (rda) revealed the significant relationship between composition and species frequency and exerted management techniques. the first and second features of rda indicated 57%, 74.9...

Rotation measures of pulsars and extragalactic point sources have been known to reveal largescale antisymmetries in the Faraday rotation sky with respect to the Galactic plane and halo that have been interpreted as signatures of the mean magnetic field in the Galactic halo. We describe Faraday rotation measurements of the diffuse Galactic polarized radio emission over a large region in the nort...

Equipartition magnetic fields can dramatically affect the polarization of radiation emerging from accretion disk atmospheres in active galactic nuclei. We extend our previous work on this subject by exploring the interaction between Faraday rotation and absorption opacity in local, plane-parallel atmospheres with parameters appropriate for accretion discs. Faraday rotation in pure scattering at...

Compensation of the temperature dependence of the Verdet constant in a polarimetric extrinsic Faraday sensor is of major importance for applying the magneto-optical effect to AC current measurements and magnetic field sensing. This paper presents a method for compensating the temperature effect on the Faraday rotation in a Bi12GeO20 crystal by sensing its optical activity effect on the polariza...

Different Faraday Rotation (FR) estimators are discussed, their estimation performances are assessed and compared to each other. The algorithms are applied on a set of quad-pol ALOS Pal-SAR data and the obtained estimates are validated against FR values derived from TEC maps obtained from GPS measurements.

Here, we review the history, theory, measurement technique and experimental results on gyrotropic phenomena including optical rotation (optical activity), electrogyration, the Faraday effect and magneto-electrogyration in transparent crystals, including examples of structural phase transitions. Relations to the absolute structure are discussed and model calculations are performed on the basis o...

Faraday Rotation measurements are a very important tool for investigating the magnetic (B) fields associated with the relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN); for example, a toroidal or helical B field component should give rise to a systematic gradient in the observed Faraday rotation across the jet. However, real observed radio images have finite resolution. Typical beam sizes for c...