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Results

At all wavelengths (except 90 cm) you can see the core and two radio lobes. The source is asymmetric in size but not in flux. Both lobes are polarized (11-14 %). The left one appeared to have two different regions, because the polarization vectors were almost perpendicular in these area's. When a contour plot of the polarization intensity was made it gave us a clue why there where two different angles for the polarization vectors. You can see clearly that there are two distinct peaks in the polarization intensity map. In each region the angle of polarization is different. There is not much difference in the strength of polarization between these area's (8.6 %for and 9.8 %for ).

The magnetic field also shows two different angles, but now you see this phenomenon also in the other lobe. The rotation measure is for both lobes roughly the same. It is about . The spectral indices are pretty steep for both lobes and fairly flat for the core. At higher frequencies all parts get steeper indices and even the core becomes very steep. The left lobe has a huge spectral index of .


M.Bremer@sron.ruu.nl
Thu Apr 25 13:24:51 MET DST 1996