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Magnetic fields are an important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The thermal gas in the ISM has a multiphase structure, broadly divided into ionised, atomic, and molecular phases. The connection between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Amit Seta , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

The intergalactic magnetic field within filaments should be less polluted by magnetised outflows from active galaxies than magnetic fields in clusters. Therefore, filaments may be a better laboratory to study magnetic field amplification by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bruggen , M. Ruszkowski , A. Simionescu , M. Hoeft , C. Dalla Vecchia

The Faraday rotation measurements of multiply-imaged gravitational lens systems can be effectively used to probe the existence of large-scale ordered magnetic fields in lensing galaxies and galaxy clusters. The available sample of lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 D. Narasimha , S. M. Chitre

A fully three-dimensional computation of induction processes in a disk is performed to investigate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in gas-rich barred and spiral galaxies in the presence of field diffusion. As input parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. von Linden , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , H. Lesch , G. Skupniewicz

Magnetic fields are an important component of the interstellar medium, especially in low-mass galaxies like irregulars where the magnetic pressure may be significant. However, few irregular galaxies have observed magnetic field structures.…

We present results from the Austral Winter 2003 observing campaign of SPARO, a 450 micron polarimeter used with a two-meter telescope at South Pole. We mapped large-scale magnetic fields in four Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in the Galactic…

Magnetic fields have important or dominant effects in many areas of astrophysics, but have been very difficult to quantify. Spectropolarimetry from Ground State Alignment (GSA) has been suggested as a direct tracer of magnetic field in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-28 Huirong Yan , Cecile Gry , Francois Boulanger , Francesco Leone

Context. The Galactic magnetic field (GMF) has a huge impact on the evolution of the Milky Way. Yet currently there exists no standard model for it, as its structure is not fully understood. In the past many parametric GMF models of varying…

The density profiles of dark halos are usually inferred from the rotation curves of disk galaxies based on the assumption that the gas is a good tracer of the gravitational potential of the galaxies. Some authors have suggested that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , M. Reyes-Ruiz

A combination of observation, theory, modeling, and laboratory plasma experiments provides a multifaceted approach to develop a much greater understanding of how magnetic fields arise in galactic settings and how these magnetic fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-23 A. Lazarian , S. Boldyrev , C. Forest , J. Sarff , P. Terry

To model magnetic fields of compact objects we solve the Maxwell equations in the background of the exterior static Schwarzschild and slowly rotating Kerr space-times. We impose the boundary condition that the electromagnetic fields are to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Richard Kerner , Gideon Koekoek , Julia Schuring , Jan-Willem van Holten

Using a new, expanded compilation of extragalactic source Faraday rotation measures (RM) we investigate the broad underlying magnetic structure of the Galactic disk at latitudes $|b|$ $\lesssim 15^{\circ}$ over all longitudes $l$, where our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Philipp P. Kronberg , Katherine J. Newton-McGee

We aim to test the reliability of determining the line-of-sight magnetic field from a 3D MHD simulation of a unipolar region. In contrast to earlier similar studies, we consider the full solar disk, i.e. considering the full centre-to-limb…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jonas Sinjan , Sami K. Solanki , Johann Hirzberger , Tino L. Riethmüller , Damien Przybylski

We present a statistical study of pulsars and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) based on multiwavelength observations in the Galactic Field and Globular Clusters. We examine their emission properties, timing behavior, and spatial distributions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Maria Rah , Areg Mickaelian , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Rainer Spurzem

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe, including galaxy clusters, and affect the thermodynamical properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that seed magnetic fields are amplified up to the $\mu$G-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 A. Pagliotta , C. J. Riseley , A. Bonafede , C. Stuardi , F. Loi

We built three models for the gravitational field of the Galactic bar. These models are an inhomogeneous ellipsoid, an inhomogeneous prolate spheroid, and a superposition of four inhomogeneous ellipsoids. Among the three models, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barbara Pichardo , Marco Martos , Edmundo Moreno

We improve on the model of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) from Jansson \& Farrar (2012), which was constrained using all-sky rotation measures of extragalactic sources and polarized and unpolarized synchrotron emission data from WMAP. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-14 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar

Starlight polarimetry, when combined with accurate distance measurements, allows for exploration of the three-dimensional structure of local magnetic fields in great detail. We present optical polarimetric observations of stars in and close…

Magnetic fields play vital roles in intracluster media (ICMs), but estimating their strengths and distributions from observations is a major challenge. Faraday rotation measures (RMs) are widely applied to this task, so it is critical to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Andrew Johnson , Lawrence Rudnick , Thomas Jones , Peter Mendygral , Klaus Dolag

We describe a recent full-polarization radio continuum survey, performed using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), of several nearby galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) sample. The WSRT-SINGS survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-23 G. Heald , R. Braun