RESONANCE MAGNETIC CONVERSION OF PHOTONS INTO MASSLESS AXIONS AND STRIKING FEATURE IN QUASAR POLARIZED-LIGHT

Authors
Citation
Yn. Gnedin, RESONANCE MAGNETIC CONVERSION OF PHOTONS INTO MASSLESS AXIONS AND STRIKING FEATURE IN QUASAR POLARIZED-LIGHT, Astrophysics and space science, 249(1), 1997, pp. 125-129
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
ISSN journal
0004640X
Volume
249
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
125 - 129
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1997)249:1<125:RMCOPI>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The effect of massless Nambu-Goldstone bosons (massless axions) on the appearance of striking feature in QSO polarized light is suggested. T his feature can be appeared in a result of resonance magnetic conversi on of photons into massless axions. The resonance magnetic conversion can take place for mixture of electron plasma and neutral hydrogen gas into a magnetic field in the regions of Damped Ly-alpha systems. The QSOs with a noticeable Faraday rotation measures should be suitable ta rgets for polarimetric observations.