Hello, <div><br></div><div>I am a PhD student of Florida Institute of Technology. I am working on data analysis of galaxy M87. </div><div>I have obtained RM maps for one of the time epochs in my data. But I am not sure if the RM is giving me the right thing. I tried to plot position angle Versus wavelength squared to see the lambda^2 signature of Faraday rotation in my data, making a least squares fit. The slopes of position angle Vs lambda^2 are way higher than the maximum value of rotation measure in my RM map. Also I do not see any negative RM values in my map (which it should give me since there is negative rotation measure in M87 jet, as per earlier work on it). Its range is 0-1300 rad/m^2, while slope of PA Vs lambda^2 is around 2000-4000 rad/m^2.</div>
<div>I am not sure if I am entering the inputs in RM properly. First I tried setting to default APARM values and then tried successively to increase the APARM(4) 5000, 10000, 15000 etc.</div><div>The RM maps looks different each time (obviously) but the range still stays same, 0-1300 rad/m^2. Even setting the initial guess for RM value by APARM(3) does not help getting the reasonable result.</div>
<div>What is that I am missing when plotting RM map? Is there any other parameter that I need to set to get what I want? Or is there any other task to obtain RM map?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, </div><div>-- <br>Sayali S Avachat<br>
PhD Candidate<br>Department of Physics and Space Sciences<br>Florida Institute of Technology<br><a href="mailto:savachat2008@my.fit.edu" target="_blank">savachat2008@my.fit.edu</a><br>
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