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The forthcoming new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Our analysis aims on what can be learned from these sources concerning the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodion Stepanov , Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Peter Frick , Marita Krause

Diffuse radio emission has been detected in a considerable number of galaxy clusters and groups, revealing the presence of pervasive cosmic magnetic fields, and of relativistic particles in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe.…

Radio relics are vast synchrotron sources that sit on the outskirts of merging galaxy clusters. In this work we model their formation using a Press-Schechter formalism to simulate merger rates, analytical models for the intracluster medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 M. Brüggen , F. Vazza

Galaxy clusters are unique laboratories to investigate turbulent fluid motions and large scale magnetic fields. Synchrotron radio halos at the center of merging galaxy clusters provide the most spectacular and direct evidence of the…

Cosmological shocks are a critical part of large-scale structure formation, and are responsible for heating the intracluster medium in galaxy clusters. In addition, they are also capable of accelerating non-thermal electrons and protons. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Samuel W. Skillman , Eric J. Hallman , Brian W. O'Shea , Jack O. Burns , Britton D. Smith , Matthew J. Turk

Large-scale diffuse radio emission is observed in some clusters of galaxies. There is ample of evidence that the emission has its origin in synchrotron losses of relativistic electrons, accelerated in the course of clusters mergers. In a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Hoeft , M. Brueggen , G. Yepes , S. Gottloeber , A. Schwope

The acceleration of electrons at shock fronts is thought to be responsible for radio relics, extended radio features in the vicinity of merging galaxy clusters. By combining high resolution Adaptive Mesh Refinement Hydro/N-body cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jack O. Burns , Samuel W. Skillman

Regular magnetic field structures can be derived from the Faraday rotation measures (RM) of polarized background sources observable at 1.4 GHz with the SKA. At lower frequencies ($<250$ MHz) polarimetry of radio sources with the Low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck

We present high-frequency, full-polarisation Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio data at X-band of the radio relic: MACS J0717.5+3745. Radio relics trace shock waves in the intracluster medium (ICM) produced during mergers. Understanding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-10 A. Pasetto , O. Vilchis , A. Bonafede , E. F. Jiménez-Andrade , K. Rajpurohit , E. Murphy

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Polarization observations with the forthcoming large radio telescopes, especially the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will open a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 Rainer Beck

Radio relics detected in the outskirts of galaxy clusters are thought to trace radio-emitting relativistic electrons accelerated at cosmological shocks. In this study, using the cosmological hydrodynamic simulation data for the large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 Sungwook E. Hong , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu

The thermal plasma of galaxy clusters lost most of its information on how structure formation proceeded as a result of dissipative processes. In contrast, non-equilibrium distributions of cosmic rays (CR) preserve the information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten A. Ensslin , Volker Springel

Upcoming radio telescopes will allow to study the radio sky at low frequencies with unprecedent sensitivity and resolution. New surveys are expected to discover a large number of new radio sources. Here we investigate the abundance of radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. E. Nuza , M. Hoeft , R. J. van Weeren , S. Gottloeber , G. Yepes

The cosmic web contains a large fraction of the total gas mass in the universe but is difficult to detect at most wavelengths. Synchrotron emission from shock-accelerated electrons may offer the chance of imaging the cosmic web at radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 F. Vazza , C. Ferrari , M. Brüggen , A. Bonafede , C. Gheller , P. Wang

With magnetic fields below one microgauss, the minimum pressures of synchrotron plasmas start to approach those in the thermal gas in cluster outskirts and the more diffuse WHIM in large-scale structure filaments. We summarize some of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown , Damon Farnsworth

Radio relics are extended radio emission features which trace shock waves in the periphery of galaxy clusters originating from cluster mergers. Some radio relics show a highly polarised emission, which make relics an excellent probe for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Matthias Hoeft , Kamlesh Rajpurohit , Denis Wittor , Gabriella di Gennaro , Paola Domínguez-Fernández

Radio observations discovered large scale non thermal sources in the central Mpc regions of dynamically disturbed galaxy clusters (radio halos). The morphological and spectral properties of these sources suggest that the emitting electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 G. Brunetti , R. Cassano

We present our attempts to detect magnetic fields in filamentary large-scale structure (LSS) by observing polarized synchrotron emission emitted by structure formation shocks. Little is known about the strength and order of magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shea Brown , Lawrence Rudnick , Damon Farnsworth

We use the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Data Release I to identify the groups of galaxies (and individual galaxies) from the Hickson Compact Groups and Magnitude Limited Compact Groups samples that emit at the frequency of 150\,MHz,…

The detection of the radio signal from filaments in the cosmic web is crucial to distinguish possible magnetogenesis scenarios. We review the status of the different attempts to detect the cosmic web at radio wavelengths. This is put into…