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Observational Evidence Against Birefringence Over Cosmological Distances

J. F. C. Wardle, R. A. Perley, M. H. Cohen

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9705142

Abstract

We show that recent radio and optical observations of polarized radiation from well-resolved high redshift quasars and radio galaxies rule out the cosmological rotation of the plane of polarization claimed recently by Nodland and Ralston. A least squares fit to the radio data has a slope only 2% of their claimed effect.

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