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Magnetic fields are fundamental to the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) in spiral galaxies and are often separated into large-scale, regular ($\boldsymbol{B}$) and small-scale, random ($\boldsymbol{b}$) components. The thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Saakshi Dhakal , Amit Seta

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. The total intensity traces the strength and distribution of total magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

We study the effects of galaxy formation physics on the magnetization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using the IllustrisTNG simulations. We demonstrate that large-scale regions affected by the outflows from galaxies and clusters contain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andres Aramburo Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Anastasia Sokolenko

The magnetic field structure of the Milky Way can offer critical insights into the origin of galactic magnetic fields. Measurements of magnetic structures of the Milky Way are still sparse in far regions of the Galactic disk and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Jun Xu , J. L. Han , Weicong Jing , The SKA Pulsar Science Working Group

In regions with strongly varying electron density, radio emission can be magnified significantly by plasma lensing. In the presence of magnetic fields, magnification in time and frequency will be different for two circular polarizations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Dongzi Li , Fang Xi Lin , Robert Main , Ue-Li Pen , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , I-Sheng Yang

We use high-resolution MHD simulations of isolated disk galaxies to investigate the co-evolution of magnetic fields with a self-regulated, star-forming interstellar medium (ISM). The simulations are conducted using the Ramses AMR code on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 Hector Robinson , James Wadsley

One of the major discoveries of asteroseismology is the signature of a strong extraction of angular momentum (AM) in the radiative zones of stars across the entire Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, resulting in weak core-to-surface rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Hachem Dhouib , Stéphane Mathis , Lisa Bugnet , Timothy Van Reeth , Conny Aerts

The recent detection of gravitational waves associated with a binary neutron star merger revives interest in interacting pulsar magnetospheres. Current models predict that a significant amount of magnetic energy should be released prior to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Benjamin Crinquand , Benoît Cerutti , Guillaume Dubus

Magnetism is one of the most important forces on the interstellar medium (ISM), anisotropically regulating the structure and star formation that drive galactic evolution. Recent high dynamic range observations of diffuse gas and molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 S. E. Clark , Carl Heiles , Tim Robishaw

We present analytic solutions of Maxwell equations in the internal and external background spacetime of a slowly rotating magnetized neutron star. The star is considered isolated and in vacuum, with a dipolar magnetic field not aligned with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Rezzolla , B. J. Ahmedov , J. C. Miller

We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Vidotto , M. Jardine , J. Morin , J. F. Donati , M. Opher , T. I. Gombosi

Faraday rotation of the polarization plane in magnetized thermal plasma provides one of the most efficient methods to deduce regular magnetic fields from radio astronomical observations. Since the Faraday rotation measure RM is proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rainer Beck , Anvar Shukurov , Dmitry Sokoloff , Richard Wielebinski

We report a measurement of intergalactic magnetic fields using combined data from Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, based on the spectral data alone. If blazars are assumed to produce both gamma rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-03 Warren Essey , Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

The stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of a pulsar is considered. We present an exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation, construct the magnetospheric model on its basis and examine its observational support. The new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-30 S. A. Petrova

The orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field introduces asymmetries in the heliosphere that affect the location of heliospheric radio emissions and the streaming direction of ions from the termination shock of the solar wind. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 M. Opher , E. C. Stone , T. I. Gombosi

Observations of dwarf galaxies suggest the presence of large-scale magnetic fields. However the size and slow rotation of these galaxies appear insufficient to support a mean-field dynamo action to excite such fields. Here we suggest a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 David Moss , Dmitri Sokoloff

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in inflationary cosmology. We consider the violation of the conformal invariance of the Maxwell field by dilatonic as well as non-minimal gravitational couplings. We derive a general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuharu Bamba , Misao Sasaki

Space asteroseismology is revolutionizing our knowledge of the internal structure and dynamics of stars. A breakthrough is ongoing with the recent discoveries of signatures of strong magnetic fields in the core of red giant stars. The key…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Stéphane Mathis , Lisa Bugnet

We present axisymmetric maximum disk mass models for a sample of 74 spiral galaxies taken from the southern sky Fabry-Perot Tully-Fisher survey (Schommer et al. 1993). The sample contains galaxies spanning a large range of morphologies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Povilas Palunas , T. B. Williams

It is well known that aligned, aspherical dust grains emit polarized radiation and that the degree of polarization depends on the angle $\psi$ between the interstellar magnetic field and the line of sight. However, anisotropy of the dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Brandon S. Hensley , Cheng Zhang , James J. Bock