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Table 2.

Polarization properties of the diffuse radio emission in the cluster MACS J0717.5+3745.

Source VLA
Depolarization fraction
C-band S-band L-band (DP)

p5.5 GHz p3.0 GHz p1.5 GHz

2″ 5″ 2″ 5″ 2″ 5″ 2″ 5″

% % % % % %
R1 21 ± 2 15 ± 2 12 ± 2 9 ± 1 3 ± 1 2 ± 1 0.23 0.12
R2 21 ± 2 17 ± 2 20 ± 2 16 ± 2 9 ± 1 7 ± 2 0.54 0.45
R3 28 ± 3 20 ± 2 28 ± 2 20 ± 2 16 ± 2 11 ± 1 0.70 0.60
R4 15 ± 1 10 ± 1 14 ± 1 9 ± 1 9 ± 1 6 ± 1 0.78 0.76
F1 30 ± 2 26 ± 2 13 ± 1
F2 24 ± 2 22 ± 2 14 ± 1

Notes. The fractional polarizations and DP are average values measured from 2″ resolution L-, S-, and C-band fractional polarization and depolarization maps. The regions where the fractional polarization and depolarization were extracted are indicated in the left panel of Fig. 4.

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