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Naval Research Laboratory

Uncertainty in Faraday Map

Caption: This image shows the uncertainty in the Faraday map. In the area of the celestial south pole, the measurement uncertainties are particularly high because of the low density of data points.

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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