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Magnetic fields are observed beyond the peripheries of optically detected galactic discs, while numerical models of their origin and the typical magnitudes are still absent. Previously, studies of galactic dynamo have avoided considering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 E. Mikhailov , A. Kasparova , D. Moss , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , A. Zasov

While surface fields have been measured for stars across the HR diagram, internal magnetic fields remain largely unknown. The recent seismic detection of magnetic fields in the cores of several Kepler red giants has opened a new avenue to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Gang Li , Sébastien Deheuvels , Tanda Li , Jérôme Ballot , François Lignières

The influence of intergalactic magnetic fields on the strong gravitational lensing of blazar secondary gamma radiation is discussed. Currently, two cases of strong gravitational lensing of blazar gamma-radiation are known, where radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Yury N. Eroshenko

Faraday rotation of radio source polarization provides a measure of the integrated magnetic field along the observational lines of sight. We compare a new, large sample of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongzhong Xu , Philipp P. Kronberg , Salman Habib , Quentin W. Dufton

The rotating vector model and radius-to-frequency mapping in the presence of multipole magnetic field in pulsars and magnetars are considered. An axisymmetric potential field is assumed. It is found that: (1) The radiation beam in the case…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 J. L. Qiu , H. Tong , H. G. Wang

Disk accretion to rotating stars with complex magnetic fields is investigated using full three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The studied magnetic configurations include superpositions of misaligned dipole and quadrupole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Long , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

Pulsars can act as an excellent probe of the Milky Way magnetic field. The average strength of the Galactic magnetic field component parallel to the line of sight can be estimated as $\langle B_\parallel \rangle = 1.232 \,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

Constraining dynamo theories of magnetic field origin by observation is indispensable but challenging, in part because the basic quantities measured by observers and predicted by modelers are different. We clarify these differences and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-24 Rainer Beck , Luke Chamandy , Ed Elson , Eric G. Blackman

We consider a gravitational field in steady state galaxy models of two kinds. Some of them are axisymmetrical and others are triaxial. Equipotentials and potential law are given separately in accordance to Kutuzov and Ossipkov (1980). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-25 N. V. Raspopova , S. A. Kutuzov

We present Rotation Measures (RM) of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) and compare them to RMs of extragalactic sources in order to study the large-scale reversal in the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-07 A. Ordog , J. C. Brown , R. Kothes , T. L. Landecker

The line-of-sight structure of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) can be studied using Faraday rotation measure (RM) grids. We analyze how the choice of interpolation kernel can affect the accuracy and reliability of reconstructed RM maps.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Affan Khadir , Ayush Pandhi , Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Bryan Gaensler , Shannon Vanderwoude , Jennifer West , Shane O'Sullivan

Little is known about the origin and basic properties of magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies. High conductivity in magnetized interstellar plasma suggests that galactic magnetic fields are (at least partly) ejected into intracluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yinon Arieli , Yoel Rephaeli , Michael L. Norman

Magnetic fields play an important role in shaping the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies, but the details of this relationship remain unclear. With SKA1, the 3D structure of galactic magnetic fields and its…

We estimated 34 sets of Galactic model parameters for three intermediate latitude fields with Galactic longitudes l=60, l=90, and l=180, and we discussed their dependence on the volume. Also, we confirmed the variation of these parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Karaali , S. Bilir , E. Yaz , E. Hamzaoglu , R. Buser

We carried out global three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of galactic gaseous disks to investigate how the galactic magnetic fields are amplified and maintained. We adopt a steady axisymmetric gravitational potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiromitsu Nishikori , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

The most accurate measurements of magnetic fields in star-forming gas are based on the Zeeman observations analyzed by Crutcher et al. (2010). We show that their finding that the 3D magnetic field scales approximately as density$^{0.65}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Pak Shing Li , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein

Within four nearby (d < 160 pc) molecular clouds, we statistically evaluate the structure of the interstellar magnetic field, projected on the plane of the sky and integrated along the line of sight, as inferred from the polarized thermal…

The strong lensing modelling of gravitational ``rings'' formed around massive galaxies is sensitive to the amplitude of the external shear and convergence produced by nearby mass condensations. In current wide field surveys, it is now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Tu , M. Limousin , B. Fort , C. G. Shu , J. F. Sygnet , E. Jullo , J. -P. Kneib , J. Richard

Asteroseismology has revealed small core-to-surface rotation contrasts in stars in the whole HR diagram. This is the signature of strong transport of angular momentum (AM) in stellar interiors. One of the plausible candidates to efficiently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hachem Dhouib , Stéphane Mathis , Lisa Bugnet , Timothy Van Reeth , Conny Aerts

We study the properties of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $z<1$ galaxies by correlating Faraday rotation measures of $\sim 1,000$ high-redshift radio sources with the foreground galaxy number density estimated from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Ting-Wen Lan , J. Xavier Prochaska
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