The plethora of diffuse emission in Abell 2034 as revealed by MeerKAT polarization observations

arXiv:2607.14347 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

A. Bonafede, M. Balboni, G. W. Pratt, I. Bartalucci, L. Rudnick, C. J. Riseley, C. Stuardi, B. Hugo, G. Bernardi, M. Brüggen, G. Brunetti, R. Cassano, F. De Gasperin, F. Gastaldello, K. Knowles, F. Loi, T. Shimwell, R. J. van Weeren

astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-15

Comments: 16 pages, accepted by A&A

Code: https://github.com/bennahugo/LunaticPolarimetry

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Rotation Measure — 3× in this paper
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters
• RM-Tools: Software for Analyzing Polarized Radio Spectra

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