A new analysis of quasar polarisation alignments

Abstract

We propose a new method to analyse the alignment of optical polarisation vectors from quasars. This method leads to a definition of intrinsic preferred axes and to a determination of the probability $p^{\sigma }$ that the distribution of polarisation directions is random. This probability is found to be as low as 0.003% for one of the regions of redshift.

20 pages, 9 figures

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