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In addition to the radio continuum emission of the thin galactic disk, vertically extended emission is ubiquitous in starforming disk galaxies. This halo emission can represent an important fraction of the total emission of the galaxy The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 B. Vollmer , M. Soida , V. Heesen

We present the results of the GMRT cluster radio halo survey. The main purposes of our observational project are to measure which fraction of massive galaxy clusters in the redshift range z=0.2--0.4 hosts a radio halo, and to constrain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Venturi , S. Giacintucci , D. Dallacasa , R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , S. Bardelli , G. Setti

The radio continuum spectra of 14 star-forming galaxies are investigated by fitting nonthermal (synchrotron) and thermal (free-free) radiation laws. The underlying radio continuum measurements cover a frequency range of ~325 MHz to 24.5 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Uli Klein , Ute Lisenfeld , Simon Verley

The INTEGRAL observatory has been performing a deep survey of the Galactic central radian since 2003, with the goal of both extracting a catalog of sources and gaining insight into the Galactic diffuse emission. This paper concentrates on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Bouchet , J. P. Roques , P. Mandrou , A. Strong , R. Diehl , F. Lebrun , R. Terrier

The average brightness temperatures and surface brightnesses at 22 MHz are derived for the four main Galactic radio-continuum loops (Loops I, II, III and IV, hereafter radio-loops). Also the radio-continuum spectra for the radio-loops are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Urošević , V. Borka Jovanović

We present statistical analysis of diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission and polarized thermal emission from dust. Both Galactic synchrotron emission and polarized thermal emission from dust reflect statistics of magnetic field fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-12 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

The third year of observations with the Python microwave background experiment densely sample a $5.5^o\times 22^o$ region of sky that includes the fields measured during the first two years of observations with this instrument. The sky is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. R. Platt , J. Kovac , M. Dragovan , J. B. Peterson , J. E. Ruhl

The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project is a photometric and spectroscopic survey from which we select relatively blue stars (V-R<0.30 mag) as probes of the Milky Way halo. The Survey strip spans the range of Galactic latitude 35<b<88 deg,…

We have carried out deep, high velocity resolution, interferometric Galactic HI 21 cm absorption spectroscopy towards 32 compact extra-galactic radio sources with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-30 Nirupam Roy , Nissim Kanekar , Robert Braun , Jayaram N. Chengalur

The COBE Far InfraRed Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) observations constitute an unbiased survey over the wavelength range from 100 um to 1 cm over 99% of the sky. Improved calibration of the FIRAS instrument and the inclusion of all of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Fixsen , C. L. Bennett , J. C. Mather

We present measurements of the Galactic halo's X-ray emission for 110 XMM-Newton sight lines, selected to minimize contamination from solar wind charge exchange emission. We detect emission from few million degree gas on ~4/5 of our sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 David B. Henley , Robin L. Shelton

We analyse the polarized emission at 1.4 GHz in a 3x3 deg^2 area at high Galactic latitude (b ~ -40deg). The region, centred in (RA=5h, Dec=-49deg), was observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array radio-interferometer, whose 3-30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Carretti , G. Bernardi , R. J. Sault , S. Cortiglioni , S. Poppi

In this letter we present first results from spectroscopic observations of Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) in the halo of NGC5775 obtained with FORS1 attached to UT1/Antu of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). At our slit position perpendicular to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Tuellmann , R. -J. Dettmar , M. Soida , M. Urbanik , J. Rossa

We present new measurements of the diffuse radio halo emission from the Coma cluster of galaxies at 2.675 GHz and 4.85 GHz using the Effelsberg 100--m telescope. After correction for the contribution from point sources we derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 M. Thierbach , U. Klein , R. Wielebinski

We present arcsecond resolution Chandra X-ray and ground-based optical H-alpha imaging of a sample of ten edge-on star-forming disk galaxies (seven starburst and three ``normal'' spiral galaxies), a sample which covers the full range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , E. J. M. Colbert , C. G. Hoopes , K. A. Weaver

The aim of the present analysis is to improve the knowledge of the statistical properties of the Galactic diffuse synchrotron emission, which constrains sensitive CMB anisotropy measurements. We have analysed the new DRAO 1.4 GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. La Porta , C. Burigana , W. Reich , P. Reich

We present the results of OSSE observations of the soft gamma ray continuum emission from the Galactic plane at longitude 95 degrees. Emission is detected between 50 and 600 keV where the spectrum is fit well by a power law with photon…

We derive the synchrotron distribution in the Milky Way disk from HII region absorption observations over -40{\deg} < l < 40{\deg} at six frequencies of 76.2, 83.8, 91.5, 99.2, 106.9, and 114.6 MHz with the GaLactic and Extragalactic…

We constrain the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission, $\beta_s$, by correlating the recently released 2.3 GHz S-Band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS) data with the 23 GHz 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 U. Fuskeland , K. J. Andersen , R. Aurlien , R. Banerji , M. Brilenkov , H. K. Eriksen , M. Galloway , E. Gjerløw , S. K. Næss , T. L. Svalheim , I. K. Wehus

A new model of the Milky Way (MW) halo component of the dispersion measure (DM) for extragalactic sources, such as fast radio bursts (FRBs), is presented in light of recent diffuse X-ray observations. In addition to the spherical component…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani