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The polarization of X-ray emission is a unique tool used to investigate the magnetic field structure around astrophysical objects. In this paper, we study the linear polarization of X-ray emissions from gamma-ray binary systems based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Xingxing Hu , Jumpei Takata

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…

We present a detailed examination of the relationship between the magnetic field structures and the variations in Faraday Rotation across PKS1246-410, a radio source in the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, using data from Taylor, Fabian and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Rudnick , K. Blundell

We discuss the regular magnetic field in the galaxy M51 on the basis of a new interpretation of polarization angles observed at the wavelengths 2.8, 6.2, 18.0 and 20.5 cm. We found a magneto-ionic halo in M51 with a radial extent of about…

Magnetic fields in the Milky Way are present on a wide variety of sizes and strengths, influencing many processes in the Galactic ecosystem such as star formation, gas dynamics, jets, and evolution of supernova remnants or pulsar wind…

We investigate the capability of ongoing radio telescopes for probing Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in the large-scale structure of the universe which is expected to be of order $O(1) {\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Takuya Akahori , Kohei Kumazaki , Dongsu Ryu

We present full-polarisation, broadband observations of the radio galaxy NGC 612 (PKS B0131-637) from 1.3 to 3.1 GHz using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The relatively large angular scale of the radio galaxy makes it a good…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 J. F. Kaczmarek , C. R. Purcell , B. M. Gaensler , X. Sun , S. P. O'Sullivan , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

Radio continuum and polarization observations of several nearby galaxies allowed to determine their vertical scaleheights, magnetic field strengths and large-scale magnetic field patterns. They all show a similar large-scale magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-13 Marita Krause

We present a method for parametric modelling of the physical components of the Galaxy's magnetised interstellar medium, simulating the observables, and mapping out the likelihood space using a Markov Chain Monte-Carlo analysis. We then…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-29 T. R. Jaffe , J. P. Leahy , A. J. Banday , S. M. Leach , S. R. Lowe , A. Wilkinson

Constraining dynamo theories of magnetic field origin by observation is indispensable but challenging, in part because the basic quantities measured by observers and predicted by modelers are different. We clarify these differences and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-24 Rainer Beck , Luke Chamandy , Ed Elson , Eric G. Blackman

To determine the properties of the Faraday screen and the magnetic field near the central region of the Galaxy, we measured the Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 60 background extragalactic source components through the -6 deg < l <6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

Interstellar magnetic fields play critical roles in many astrophysical processes. Yet despite their importance, our knowledge about magnetic fields in our Galaxy remains limited. For the field within the Milky Way, much of what we do know…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-15 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown

Magnetic fields play an important role in shaping the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies, but the details of this relationship remain unclear. With SKA1, the 3D structure of galactic magnetic fields and its…

The existence of magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies is now well established through different methods of analysis. Magnetic fields are investigated in the radio band from studies of the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Federica Govoni , Luigina Feretti

Pulsars can act as an excellent probe of the Milky Way magnetic field. The average strength of the Galactic magnetic field component parallel to the line of sight can be estimated as $\langle B_\parallel \rangle = 1.232 \,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

The all-sky survey of Faraday rotation, a Key Science Project of the planned Square Kilometre Array, will accumulate tens of millions of rotation measure measurements toward background radio sources and will provide a unique database for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rainer Beck

In order to better determine the large-scale 3D-structure of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies we present a Faraday rotation analysis of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5775. Deep radio-continuum observations in total power and linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Marian Soida , Marita Krause , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Marek Urbanik

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are physically large radio sources that extend well beyond their host galaxy environment. Their polarization properties are affected by the poorly constrained magnetic field that permeates the intergalactic…

The grand-design face-on spiral galaxy M51 is an excellent laboratory for studying magnetic fields in galaxies. We present new observations of M51 using the VLA at the frequency range of S-band (2-4GHz), to shed new light on the transition…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 M. Kierdorf , S. A. Mao , R. Beck , A. Basu , A. Fletcher , C. Horellou , F. Tabatabaei , J. Ott , M. Haverkorn

Coherent structures in the distribution of the Faraday rotation measure of extragalactic radio sources are isolated using wavelet transformation technique. Signatures of the magnetic fields in the local (Orion) spiral arm, the Sagittarius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Frick , R. Stepanov , A. Shukurov , D. Sokoloff