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Understanding the role that magnetic fields play on the stage of galaxy formation requires accurate methods for inferring the properties of extragalactic magnetic fields. Radio synchrotron emission has been the most promising avenue to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-13 Tara Dacunha , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Susan E. Clark , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

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

Context. The existence of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is largely unconstrained. Their detection is important as magnetic fields can have a significant impact on the evolution of the CGM and, in turn, the fields can…

We investigate the problem of probing the local spatial structure of the magnetic field of the interstellar medium using multi-frequency polarized maps of the synchrotron emission at radio wavelengths. We focus in this paper on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jerome Thiebaut , Simon Prunet , Christophe Pichon , Eric Thiébaut

The Radio Arc is one of the brightest systems of non-thermal filaments (NTFs) in the Galactic Center, located near several prominent HII regions (Sickle and Pistol) and the Quintuplet stellar cluster. We present observations of the Arc NTFs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Dylan M. Paré , Cornelia C. Lang , Mark R. Morris , Hailey Moore , Sui Ann Mao

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

Dust polarization orientations in molecular clouds often tend to be close to tangential to the Stokes $I$ dust continuum emission contours. The magnetic field and the emission gradient orientations, therefore, show some correlation. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

The composition and morphology of the interstellar medium in starburst galaxies has been well investigated, but the magnetic field properties are still uncertain. The nearby starburst galaxy M82 provides a unique opportunity to investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 B. Adebahr , M. Krause , U. Klein , G. Heald , R. -J. Dettmar

Linearly polarized Galactic synchrotron emission provides valuable information about the properties of the Galactic magnetic field and the interstellar magneto-ionic medium, when Faraday rotation along the line of sight is properly taken…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 X. Y. Gao , W. Reich , J. L. Han , X. H. Sun , R. Wielebinski , W. B. Shi , L. Xiao , P. Reich , E. Fürst , M. Z. Chen , J. Ma

The simulations of the formation of cosmological structure allows to determine the spatial inhomogeneity of cosmic magnetic fields. Such simulations, however, do not give an absolute number for the strength of the magnetic field due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Hyesung Kang , Joerg P. Rachen , Dongsu Ryu

The large scale magnetic fields of our Galaxy have been mostly revealed by rotation measures ($RM$s) of pulsars and extragalactic radio sources. In the disk of our Galaxy, the average field strength over a few kpc scale is about 1.8 $\mu$G,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Han

Observational study of galactic magnetic fields is hampered by the fact that the observables only probe various projections of the magnetic fields. Comparison with numerical simulations is helpful to understand the real structures, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Mami Machida , Takuya Akahori , Kenji Nakamura Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Marijke Haverkorn

We have determined 194 Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic radio sources using new, multi-channel polarization observations at frequencies around 1.4 GHz from the Very Large Array (VLA) in the Galactic plane at…

The origin of asymmetric radio polarized emission and properties of magnetic fields in the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC4254 are investigated with help of "magnetic maps" presenting distributions of different magnetic field components over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Krzysztof T. Chyzy

We present first results for Faraday rotation of compact polarized sources (1 to 2 GHz continuum) in The HI/OH/Recombination line (THOR) survey of the inner Galaxy. In the Galactic longitude range 39 degr < l < 52 degr, we find rotation…

Rotation measures of pulsars and extragalactic point sources have been known to reveal large-scale antisymmetries in the Faraday rotation sky with respect to the Galactic plane and halo that have been interpreted as signatures of the mean…

To constrain the large-scale magnetic field strengths in cosmologically distant galax- ies, we derive the probability distribution function of Faraday rotation measure (RM) when random lines of sight pass through a sample of disc galaxies,…

Faraday tomography is thought to be a powerful tool to explore cosmic magnetic field. Broadband radio polarimetric data is essential to ensure the quality of Faraday tomography, but such data is not easy to obtain because of radio frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Takuya Akahori , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takahiro Aoki , Kazuhiro Takefuji , Hideki Ujihara , Keitaro Takahashi

Optical and infrared continuum polarization from the interstellar medium is known to generally be due to irregular dust grains aligned with the magnetic field. This provides an important tool to probe the geometry and strength of those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Ilija Medan , B-G Andersson

From our radio continuum and polarization observations of a sample of spiral galaxies with different morphological types, inclinations, and star formation rates (SFR) we found that galaxies with low SFR have higher thermal fractions/…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-13 Marita Krause