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Quasar polarization with ultralight (pseudo-)scalars

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Recently, it was shown that the absence of circular polarization of visible light from quasars severely constrains the interpretation of axion-like particles (ALPs) as a solution for the generation of linear polarization. Furthermore, the new observation of linear polarization in radio wavelength from quasars, similar to the earlier observation performed in the optical bands, makes the ALPs scenario inconsistent with at least one of the two observations. In this study, we extend this scenario by including more scalars. We find that the effects from scalar and pseudoscalar neutralize each other, thereby suppressing the circular polarization, while preserving consistent linear polarization, as observed in both the visible and radio wave bands.

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The authors were supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2011-0011083). The authors acknowledge the Max Planck Society (MPG), the Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), Gyeongsangbuk-Do and Pohang City for the support of the Independent Junior Research Group at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP). The authors also wish to thank the referee for the suggestions that helped in improving the scope and impact of this paper considerably.

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  1. Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784, Republic of Korea

    KI-YOUNG CHOI, SUBHAYAN MANDAL & CHANG SUB SHIN

  2. Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejon, 305-348, Republic of Korea

    KI-YOUNG CHOI

  3. Department of Physics, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Malaviya Nagar, Jaipur, 302 017, India

    SUBHAYAN MANDAL

  4. New High Energy Theory Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers Unversity, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

    CHANG SUB SHIN

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CHOI, KY., MANDAL, S. & SHIN, C.S. Quasar polarization with ultralight (pseudo-)scalars. Pramana - J Phys 86, 169–183 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-015-0964-1

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