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AFTER the first successful attempt to measure the polarization of the galactic radio radiation at 408 Mc/s (refs. 1 and 2), the observations were continued with improved receivers, resulting in a nearly complete survey of the polarization at 408 Mc/s of the part of the sky visible with the Dwingeloo radio telescope3,4. The receivers used were all based on the correlation principle, correlating the signals of two crossed dipoles. The results obtained were confirmed by observations made at Cambridge using the difference between the signals on two crossed dipoles5,6, and by results obtained at Sydney, by rotating a feed consisting of two parallel dipoles7.
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MULLER, C., BERKHUIJSEN, E., BROUW, W. et al. Galactic Background Polarization at 610 Mc/s. Nature 200, 155–156 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200155a0
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