... NRAO1
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
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...images2
Throughout our discussion, we refer to the original AIPS files as images and to those files interpolated from the images using our procedure as frames.
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... images3
$I$, $Q$, and $U$ correspond to the Stokes parameters for total intensity and linear polarization; $Q$ and $U$ images are only necessary for polarization movies.
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... made4
If not, proceed to item 3 using $Q'=Q$ and $U'=U$.
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... vectors5
Assuming negligible Faraday rotation, $\theta=\frac{\pi}{2}$.
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... images6
While $Q$ and $U$ have changed in order to rotate the tick-marks, $p$ ( $=\sqrt{Q'^{2}+U'^{2}}$) remains unchanged.
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... site.7
http://www.astro.brandeis.edu
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