Table 3.
Summary of the frequency dependent radio polarimetry parameters.
| Parameters | MeerKAT | ATCA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-band | L/S-band | C-band | X-band | |
| Resolution/″ | 8.56 × 7.65 | 5.86 × 3.02 | 3.28 × 1.28 | 2.64 × 0.93 |
| σI/μJy beam−1 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
| σQU/μJy beam−1 | 2.4 | 8.8 | 8.0 | – |
| σPI/μJy beam−1 RMSF−1 | 1.54 | 7.67 | 8.39 | – |
| meanPI/μJy beam−1 RMSF−1 | 11.8 | 54.1 | 34.6 | – |
| Resolution/″ | 22 | 12 | 6 | – |
| Total images | 43 | 88 | 113 | – |
| Max. FD/rad m−2 | 699 | 1498 | 3992 | – |
| nchannels | 283 | 155 | 219 | – |
| RMSF FWHM/rad m−2 | 49.56 | 97.29 | 183.14 | – |
| λ02/m2 | 0.063 | 0.019 | 0.003 | – |
| νref/MHz | 1194 | 2166 | 5430 | – |
Notes. The table lists the angular resolution and rms noise in the Stokes I and combined Stokes Q/U maps. σPI and meanPI denote the rms and mean polarised intensity, respectively. The RM-synthesis parameters include the common angular resolution of the Faraday cube, the number of usable Stokes Q and U channel images due to oversampling, the maximum Faraday depth sampled together with the number of frequency channels, the RMSF FWHM, and the weighted mean λ02 with its corresponding reference frequency νref.
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