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We present high sensitivity and absolutely calibrated images of diffuse radio polarisation at a resolution of about 10 arcmin covering the range 10 degr <l<34 degr and |b|<5 degr at 2.3 GHz from the S-band Parkes All Sky Survey and at 4.8…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 X. H. Sun , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti , C. R. Purcell , L. Stavelley-Smith , G. Bernardi , M. Haverkorn

High-energy gamma rays of interstellar origin are produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray (CR) particles with the diffuse gas and radiation fields in the Galaxy. The main features of this emission are well understood and are reproduced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Troy A. Porter , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

The magnetic structure in the Galactic disk, the Galactic center and the Galactic halo can be delineated more clearly than ever before. In the Galactic disk, the magnetic structure has been revealed by starlight polarization within 2 or 3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. L. Han

We study the origin of the non-thermal emission from the intracluster medium, including the excess hard X-ray emission and cluster-wide radio haloes, through fitting two representative models to the Coma cluster. If the synchrotron emitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Liang , V. Dogiel , M. Birkinshaw

With the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), multi-frequency polarimetric images were taken of the diffuse radio synchrotron background in a region centered on (l,b) = (161,16). The observations were done simultaneously in 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert , Ger de Bruyn

Magnetic fields are a good tracer for gas compression by shock waves, which can be caused by interaction of star-formation driven outflows from individual star formation sites as described in the chimney model. We study the magnetic field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Volker Heesen , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

We present a search for the synchrotron emission from the synchrotron cosmic web by cross correlating 180MHz radio images from the Murchison Widefield Array with tracers of large scale structure (LSS). We use two versions of the radio image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Tessa Vernstrom , Bryan M. Gaensler , Shea Brown , Emil Lenc , Ray P. Norris

We have analyzed the available polarization surveys of the Galactic emission to estimate to what extent it may be a serious hindrance to forthcoming experiments aimed at detecting the polarized component of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Baccigalupi , C. Burigana , F. Perrotta , G. De Zotti , L. La Porta , D. Maino , M. Maris , R. Paladini

The bright polarized synchrotron emission, away from the Galactic plane, originates mostly from filamentary structures. We implement a filament finder algorithm which allows the detection of bright elongated structures in polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 F. A. Martire , A. J. Banday , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

Strong accretion shocks are expected to illuminate the warm-hot inter-galactic medium encompassed by the filaments of the cosmic web, through synchrotron radio emission. Given their high sensitivity, low-frequency large radio facilities may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nicola Locatelli , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Serena Banfi , Gianni Bernardi , Claudio Gheller , Andrea Botteon , Timothy Shimwell

We present estimates of magnetic field in a number of AGNs from the Spectropolarimetric atlas of Smith, Young & Robinson (2002) from the observed degrees of linear polarization and the positional angles of spectral lines (H-alpha) (broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 N. A. Silant'ev , Yu. N. Gnedin , S. D. Buliga , M. Yu. Piotrovich , T. M. Natsvlishvili

We calculate the flux of radio, hard X-ray and UV radiation from clusters of galaxies as produced by synchrotron emission and Inverse Compton Scattering of electrons generated as secondaries in cosmic ray interactions in the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 P. Blasi , S. Colafrancesco

The polarized synchrotron data of the northern C-BASS survey show a surprisingly low linear polarization fraction, $\Pi\simeq 3\%$, while the magnetic field polarization features coherent structures over rather large angular scales. The low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 C. T. Becker , M. Kachelriess

It is believed that magnetic field lines are twisted and bend by turbulent motions in the Galaxy. Therefore, both Galactic synchrotron emission and thermal emission from dust reflects statistics of Galactic turbulence. Our simple model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jung Cho , A. Lazarian

A sample of large northern Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) galaxies was recently observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 1300-1760 MHz. In Paper II of this series, we described sensitive observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert Braun , George Heald , Rainer Beck

We report the detection of polarized emission in the vicinity of the Galactic center for 158 positions within eight different pointings of the Hertz polarimeter operating on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. These pointings include…

We report on ROSAT HRI observations of the nearby powerful radio galaxies 3C33 and 3C111, which both have detected optical hot spots. We find nuclear X-ray sources in both objects, but no X-ray emission from the hot spots. This confirms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 M. J. Hardcastle , M. Birkinshaw , D. M. Worrall

We present an original data analysis and a physical model that provide new insights into the origin of, and relationship between, two observables of the dusty, polarized Galaxy at intermediate and high latitudes: (i) the misalignment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Andrea Bracco , Ari J. Cukierman , Raphael Skalidis , François Boulanger

The polarized Galactic thermal dust emission constitutes a major probe for the study and the characterization of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF). In this paper, we apply the maximum-likelihood analysis that we established in our companion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Vincent Pelgrims , Juan Francisco Macías-Pérez