Observational Evidence against Birefringence over Cosmological Distances

J. F. C. Wardle, R. A. Perley, and M. H. Cohen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1801 – Published 8 September 1997
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Abstract

We show that recent radio and optical observations of polarized radiation from well-resolved high redshift quasars and radio galaxies rule out the cosmological rotation of the plane of polarization claimed recently by Nodland and Ralston [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3043 (1997)]. A least squares fit to the radio data has a slope only 2% of their claimed effect.

  • Received 1 May 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1801

©1997 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. F. C. Wardle

  • Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254

R. A. Perley

  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box “O,” Socorro, New Mexico, 87801

M. H. Cohen

  • Astronomy Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

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Vol. 79, Iss. 10 — 8 September 1997

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