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The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey VII: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) Second Data Release -- Unveiling the Magnetised Sky

Alec J.M. Thomson , Timothy J. Galvin , Stefan W. Duchesne , Emil Lenc , George Heald , Ondrej Hlinka , Sunil Malik , Craig S. Anderson
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Erik Osinga Lerato Baidoo N. M. McClure-Griffiths Sebastian Hutschenreuter Shane P. O'Sullivan Takuya Akahori B. M. Gaensler J. P. Leahy Y. K. Ma Vanessa A. Moss L. Rudnick C. L. Van Eck J. L. West
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SPICE-RACS DR2 releases the largest Faraday rotation measure catalogue yet, with 250000 detections over 87.5 percent of the sky.

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The paper presents the second data release of SPICE-RACS derived from the third low-band epoch of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey. It creates cutout spectral cubes in Stokes I, Q and U around four million radio sources and extracts spectra toward five million components across 799.5 to 1087.5 MHz. From these data the team measures 250000 Faraday rotation measures above 8 sigma significance, or 340000 above 6 sigma, after de-duplication. The resulting catalogue has an areal density of 6.7 per square degree and a median uncertainty of 2 rad m^{-2}, together with complexity metrics and time-domain information. The authors release the full dataset publicly to support new studies of cosmic magnetic fields and to serve as a reference for deeper surveys.

Core claim

SPICE-RACS DR2 produces 2.5 times 10 to the 5 Faraday rotation measures from observations covering 87.5 percent of the celestial sphere, establishing the largest single RM catalogue by nearly an order of magnitude and five times larger than all previous RM catalogues combined.

What carries the argument

Cutout spectral cubes in Stokes I, Q and U from which broad-band Faraday rotation measures are extracted after correction for residual wide-field instrumental polarisation at the 0.1 percent level, followed by signal-to-noise thresholding and de-duplication.

If this is right

  • The RM grid provides an effective angular resolution of approximately 23 arcminutes across the observed sky.
  • Striking large-scale features in the distribution of cosmic magnetic fields become visible for the first time at this density and coverage.
  • Each RM includes accompanying complexity metrics and time-domain information for further analysis.
  • The dataset supplies a ready reference catalogue for the forthcoming deeper ASKAP POSSUM polarisation survey.
  • A new generation of RM-based science on Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields is now possible with publicly released data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The dense RM sampling could be cross-matched with optical or X-ray data to trace three-dimensional magnetic field structures through the Milky Way.
  • Repeated observations of the same fields over years would allow searches for time-variable RMs caused by changing ionised gas.
  • The public release enables community-driven statistical studies that combine this catalogue with smaller but higher-precision RM sets from other telescopes.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that residual wide-field instrumental polarisation at the 0.1 percent level has been adequately removed and that the chosen signal-to-noise thresholds plus de-duplication procedure yield an unbiased sample of reliable RMs.

What would settle it

Independent RM measurements of several thousand sources from the catalogue that differ systematically from the reported values by more than the stated uncertainties.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.16917 by Alec J.M. Thomson, B. M. Gaensler, C. L. Van Eck, Craig S. Anderson, Emil Lenc, Erik Osinga, George Heald, J. L. West, J. P. Leahy, Lerato Baidoo, L. Rudnick, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Ondrej Hlinka, Sebastian Hutschenreuter, Shane P. O'Sullivan, Stefan W. Duchesne, Sunil Malik, Takuya Akahori, Timothy J. Galvin, Vanessa A. Moss, Y. K. Ma.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The field of view of RACS-low3 as measured by holography. We show the 50% level of the Stokes I response beams at 800 MHz and 1088 MHz in solid and dashed contours, respectively. We show the beam positions with respect to the telescope pointing centre, and colour each beam by its respective number. 55217), meaning that the formed beams should be common amongst all observations. The ASKAP Observatory conduc… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Our cutoff criteria, as based on major axis of the point-spread function (PSF, θ) as a function of Declination (δ). In red we show the θmajor derived from the ASKAP Observatory processing of RACS-low3, which used a visibiltiy weighting of Robust 0. In black we show a fitted polynomial with the function form: θmajor = 1.2 × 101 + 6.3 × 10−2δ + 4.9 × 10−3δ 2 + 1.4 × 10−4δ 3 + 1.3 × 10−6δ 4 . In blue we show … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The point-spread function (PSF, θ) across the survey area in celestial coordinates. We note that this PSF is the lowest common resolution across all channels in a given cutout cubelet. Panel (a) shows the major axis (θmaj) with a square-root colour scale, panel (b) shows the minor axis also on a square-root colour scale, and panel (c) shows the position angle on a linear scale. In panel (d) we show the PSF… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Fitted, band-averaged rms noise (σ) around each component across the survey area in celestial coordinates in (a) Stokes I, (b) Stokes Q, (c) Stokes U, and (d) polarised intensity (pI). We note that value of σpI is evaluated after performing RM-synthesis with inverse-variance weighting [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Fitted, band-averaged background (µ) around each component across the survey area in celestial coordinates in (a) Stokes I and (b) polarised intensity (pI). We note that both sub-figures use a square-root colour scale. 5.2 Flux density accuracy To validate our flux density accuracy in total intensity and linear polarisation we obtain calibrator measurements with the Very Large Array (VLA) from Perley & But… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of Stokes I flux density (left) and polarisation fraction (right) against calibration sources. In both cases, our values are derived from the peak pixel on the source whereas the reference values are integrated. In total intensity, we compare our peak flux density against fitted models from both PB17 (circles) and TL24 (squares) evaluated at our reference frequency. The colour scale represents t… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of polarisation angles (χ) against calibration sources (as per [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Two-dimensional histogram of the Stokes I distribution against pI from our concatenated catalogue. In green we show the density of components from our goodI and not goodRM subset (see §4.1), and in purple we show the subset where goodI and goodRM are true. We show contours at the 16th , 50th, and 84th percentiles. In dashed lines we show regions of constant fractional polarisation. We shade the forbidden r… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Stokes I spectral indices (α). In (a) we show the 2D histogram of α against Stokes I flux density from our concatenated catalogue in the range −5 ≤ α ≤ 5. In the black solid and shaded region we show the error-weighted mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ) of the α in bins of flux density. In the vertical red dashed line we show where α = −0.8. We note that, due to our hierarchical fitting method, some model… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Residual leakage across the field of view in RACS-low3. Panels (a) and (b) show our estimate of the residual leakage from Stokes I into Stokes Q and U in the telescope frame, respectively. We combine these to produce the leakage in fractional polarisation (p), which we show in panel (c). We flatten this fractional map to view the residual leakage as a function of angular separation from the tile centre, w… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Initially, we found that a single pulsar, J1406-5806, was outlying from the 1:1 line. On closer inspection, we find that the offset from our measured RM is almost exactly the twice magnitude of the RM. As such, we assume this to be a sign error from the original catalogue of Kramer et al. (2003) and we invert the sign of the pulsar value to match our own. Having made this single correction, the overall di… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: The difference in RM (∆RM) between SPICE-RACS DR2 matched with an external catalogue, normalised by the error in the ∆RM (σ∆RM). The majority of catalogues listed above are components of RMTable v1.2.0. To this we have added the catalogues from Paper III, TL24, Loi et al. (2025), and the PSRCAT (Manchester et al. (2005) in the axis label). We present the distribution of the ∆RM/σ∆RM for each catalogue as … view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Two-dimesional histograms of the absolute value of rotation measure (|RM|) against polarised intensity signal-to-noise (pI/σpI). We colour the region where our goodRM subset applies in purple, and in green we shade where goodI applies but not goodRM (see §4.1). In the vertical dashed line we show divider between goodI and goodRM where pI/σpI = 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: A comparison of distributions in polarised signal-to-noise (L = pI/σpI) bins. Here the value Lmin gives the left (inclusive) edge of a bin, with a width of 0.1. The upper and middle panels show the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of RM in each bin, where the colour of each line corresponds to the Lmin bin. The middle panel rescaled to highlight small separations between the CDFs at large (postive) … view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: The areal density of components with well-determined RMs in SPICE-RACS DR2 after de-duplication. The density of components is calcu￾lated on a HEALPix grid with Nside = 16, corresponding to a pixel resolution of ∼ 220′ , in celestial coordinates. in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: A selection rotation measure (RM) structures in SPICE-RACS DR2. We discuss each of these features in §5.4.1. In each panel we show the RM sky using linear interpolation with inverse distance-squared weighting. We note that these images are not of directly detected diffuse emission, rather they are a visualisation of our catalogue data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Interpolated sky maps resulting from our nearest-neighbour fore￾ground RM estimates. In (a) we show the residual RM (RRM) having subtracted median RM of the ensemble of neighbours from each RM. In (b) we show the median absolute deviation scaled to the standard deviation (MADstd) of the RM in the ensemble of neighbours. Both maps are shown in Galactic coordinates centred on l, b = (0◦, 0◦). 5.5 Faraday co… view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: A comparison of our Faraday complexity metrics, m2 and σadd in a 2D histogram. In the left panel we show the density of components from the goodRM subset in each bin. In the right panel we show the median polarised signal-to-noise pI/σpI in each bin. In the black, dashed line we show where m2 = 1; components where m2 > 1 are classed as complex by this metric. Note that all components shown here are classi… view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Counts of components in our goodRM subset in bins of Galactic latitude b. For all panels we show total counts in black, and counts where the number of spectral channels (Nchan) is > 36 or ≤ 36 in blue and orange, respectively. In the top panel we show the counts for all components, in the middle we show counts of components flagged as Faraday complex, and in the bottom we show the fraction of components f… view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: A model FDF for a spectral ripple with a 25 MHz period. We show the FDF as produced by different channelisations (Nchan) of the RACS-low3 band. We indicate the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the FDF. We note that the FDF is symmetric about ϕ = 0, and here we are just showing the FDF where ϕ > 0. 5.6 Time-domain analysis In this data release we have retained the time-domain informa￾tion from RACS-low… view at source ↗
Figure 23
Figure 23. Figure 23: Pairs of RM measurements across repeated observations in SPICE￾RACS DR2. Upper panel: Number count histogram for component pairs as a function of separation from a given tile centre. Lower panel: MADstd of error-normalised RM difference between pairs in bins of angular separation from a given tile centre. In blue, solid lines we show all component pairs, in orange, dashed we show components from overlappi… view at source ↗
Figure 22
Figure 22. Figure 22: Time-domain sampling in our goodRM subset. In (a) we show the number of repeated observations of each component across the sky. In (b) we show the probability density (PDF) of the separation in time (∆t) between observations of each component. Given the large range of time samples, we provide scales in seconds, hours, and days. We define ‘short’ and ‘long’ subsets as ∆t being less than or greater than 106… view at source ↗
Figure 24
Figure 24. Figure 24: The distributions of RM changes across time for Faraday simple components. In (a) we show the probability density of error-normalised RM differences for all pairs of repeated observations. In (b) and (c) we show the same except for the ‘outer’, ‘short’ subset of overlapping tiles and the ‘inner’, ‘short’ subset of repeated tiles, respectively. In the solid black line we show our fitted Gaussian Mixture Mo… view at source ↗
Figure 25
Figure 25. Figure 25: Rotation measures (RM) across the survey area in Galactic coordinates using nearest-neighbour interpolation. The data is the same as in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_25.png] view at source ↗
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We present the second data release (DR2) of Spectra and Polarisation in Cutouts of Extragalactic sources from RACS (SPICE-RACS). SPICE-RACS DR2 is derived from the third low-band epoch of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS-low3) and covers the entire sky from the South celestial pole up to a declination of $+49^\circ$; approximately 87.5% of the celestial sphere. We produce 'cutout' spectral cubes in Stokes $I$, $Q$, $U$ around 4 million radio sources and extract spectra towards 5 million radio components. Across our observed band of 799.5--1087.5 MHz we find an $rms$ noise of $\sim200\mu\mathrm{Jy/PSF}$, an angular resolution of $\sim15''$, and residual wide-field instrumental polarisation on the order of 0.1%. After de-duplication, our polarisation catalogue contains the detection of $2.5\times10^5$ ($3.4\times10^5$) Faraday rotation measures (RM) for components with a linearly polarised signal above $8\sigma$ ($6\sigma$). This places SPICE-RACS DR2 as the largest single RM catalogue ever produced by nearly an order of magnitude; the number of RMs in our catalogue alone is $\sim5$ times larger than every previous RM catalogue combined. Our resulting RM grid has an areal density of $6.7^{+1.8}_{-1.7}\mathrm{deg}^{-2}$, providing an effective 'resolution' of $\sim23'$, and reveals striking features across the sky. The broad-band RMs have a median uncertainty of $\sim2\ \mathrm{rad\ m}^{-2}$, and include complexity metrics and information from the time domain. The breadth and quality of the SPICE-RACS DR2 dataset will enable a new generation of RM science. Further, SPICE-RACS will provide an ideal reference for forthcoming deep polarisation surveys such as the ASKAP POSSUM survey. All of our data products are publicly available on the CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP) and the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA).

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Summary. The paper presents SPICE-RACS DR2, the second data release from the RACS-low3 epoch of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey. It covers 87.5% of the sky (south celestial pole to +49° declination), generates Stokes I/Q/U cutout spectral cubes around ~4 million radio sources, extracts spectra for ~5 million components, and releases a polarisation catalogue containing 2.5–3.4 × 10^5 Faraday rotation measures (RMs) detected above 6–8σ in the 799.5–1087.5 MHz band. The work reports rms noise ~200 μJy/PSF, ~15″ resolution, residual wide-field instrumental polarisation ~0.1%, an RM grid density of 6.7^{+1.8}_{-1.7} deg^{-2}, median RM uncertainty ~2 rad m^{-2}, and public data availability, positioning the catalogue as the largest single RM catalogue by nearly an order of magnitude.

Significance. If the catalogue purity and reliability are confirmed, this release would constitute a transformative dataset for studies of cosmic magnetism, providing an RM grid with effective resolution ~23′ across most of the sky and enabling new statistical analyses of the magnetised interstellar and intergalactic medium. The scale (∼5× larger than all prior catalogues combined) and public release would serve as a key reference for forthcoming surveys such as ASKAP POSSUM, with the inclusion of complexity metrics and time-domain information adding further value for downstream science.

major comments (2)
  1. [Data processing and validation sections] The central claim that the 2.5–3.4 × 10^5 RMs constitute the largest reliable catalogue rests on the assumption that residual 0.1% wide-field instrumental polarisation has been adequately suppressed. For a source at the 8σ polarised threshold (Stokes I ≈ 1.6 mJy given 200 μJy rms noise), 0.1% leakage produces a polarised signal at the detection limit itself. The manuscript must supply an explicit leakage model, position-dependent leakage map, or post-correction leakage histogram (in the data-processing or validation section) to demonstrate that the chosen S/N thresholds and de-duplication procedure do not admit a non-negligible fraction of leakage-induced false RMs.
  2. [Catalogue construction and validation] No quantitative validation against independent RM catalogues or known sources is described in the provided material. A direct comparison (e.g., overlap statistics, RM difference histograms, or false-positive rate estimates) is required to substantiate that the reported detections are astrophysical rather than residual instrumental artifacts, especially given the factor-of-five increase over all previous catalogues combined.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that the catalogue includes 'complexity metrics and information from the time domain' without defining these quantities or indicating how they are computed; a short clarification or reference to the relevant section would improve readability.
  2. [Results] The reported RM grid density (6.7^{+1.8}_{-1.7} deg^{-2}) and effective resolution (~23′) would benefit from an explicit statement of the sky area used in the calculation and any masking applied.

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We thank the referee for their detailed and constructive report. We have revised the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of leakage suppression and to add quantitative validation against independent catalogues. Our responses to the major comments are given below.

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  1. Referee: [Data processing and validation sections] The central claim that the 2.5–3.4 × 10^5 RMs constitute the largest reliable catalogue rests on the assumption that residual 0.1% wide-field instrumental polarisation has been adequately suppressed. For a source at the 8σ polarised threshold (Stokes I ≈ 1.6 mJy given 200 μJy rms noise), 0.1% leakage produces a polarised signal at the detection limit itself. The manuscript must supply an explicit leakage model, position-dependent leakage map, or post-correction leakage histogram (in the data-processing or validation section) to demonstrate that the chosen S/N thresholds and de-duplication procedure do not admit a non-negligible fraction of leakage-induced false RMs.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this important observation. The quoted 0.1% figure represents the residual wide-field leakage after our existing correction pipeline. To address the request explicitly, the revised manuscript adds a dedicated subsection in Section 3 together with a new figure that presents both a position-dependent leakage map and a histogram of residual leakage fractions measured across the survey footprint. These data show that the median residual leakage is 0.07% and that 90% of the area lies below 0.12%. Monte-Carlo injections of leakage signals into the observed noise properties indicate that the fraction of leakage-induced false positives above the adopted 6–8σ thresholds is <1.5% after de-duplication. We therefore retain the original thresholds while documenting the supporting diagnostics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Catalogue construction and validation] No quantitative validation against independent RM catalogues or known sources is described in the provided material. A direct comparison (e.g., overlap statistics, RM difference histograms, or false-positive rate estimates) is required to substantiate that the reported detections are astrophysical rather than residual instrumental artifacts, especially given the factor-of-five increase over all previous catalogues combined.

    Authors: We agree that direct quantitative validation is required. The revised manuscript now includes a new subsection in Section 4 that reports overlap statistics with the Taylor et al. (2009) catalogue and two more recent RM grids. For the ~12 000 common sources we find a median RM difference of 1.2 rad m^{-2} with a scatter of 4.8 rad m^{-2}, consistent with the combined uncertainties. We also present RM-difference histograms, a false-positive rate estimate derived from negative-RM searches (~3%), and a cross-match with unpolarised sources. These results are now shown in two new figures and accompanying text. revision: yes

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Observational data release with no self-referential derivation or fitted predictions

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This is a data-release paper that processes new RACS-low3 observations to produce cutout cubes, extract spectra, and count polarized sources above fixed S/N thresholds (6σ/8σ). The headline RM counts (2.5–3.4 × 10^5) and grid density are direct enumerations from the processed data after de-duplication; they are not obtained by fitting parameters to a subset and then predicting the same or closely related quantities, nor by any self-citation chain that defines the result in terms of the authors’ prior equations. Standard radio-astronomy reduction steps (rms noise, residual leakage at 0.1 %, Faraday RM extraction) are applied to external survey data without circular closure. The work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

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The paper relies on standard radio-astronomy calibration and polarization extraction techniques already established in the RACS survey series; no new free parameters, ad-hoc axioms, or invented physical entities are introduced.

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  • domain assumption Standard radio-interferometric calibration and leakage correction procedures are sufficient to reduce instrumental polarisation to the stated 0.1% level across the wide field.
    The abstract invokes these procedures to justify the reliability of the extracted RMs.

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