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We have estimated the magnetic field strengths of a sample of seven galaxies using their non-thermal synchrotron radio emission at metre wavelengths, and assuming energy equipartition between magnetic fields and cosmic ray particles.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Souvik Manna , Subhashis Roy

The galactic magnetic field is commonly supposed to be due to a dynamo acting on some large scale seed field. A major difficulty with this idea is that estimates of reasonable seed field strengths tend to be quite low, on the order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ethan T. Vishniac

Magnetic fields in our Galaxy and nearby galaxies have been revealed by starlight polarization, polarized emission from dust grains and clouds at millimeter and submillimeter wavelength, the Zeeman effect of spectral lines or maser lines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-06 JinLin Han

We aim to use statistical analysis of a large number of various galaxies to probe, model, and understand relations between different galaxy properties and magnetic fields. We have compiled a sample of 55 galaxies including low-mass dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Krzysztof T. Chyzy , Sarrrvesh S. Sridhar , Wojciech Jurusik

The Universe is pervaded by magnetic fields in different scales, although for simplicity, they are ignored in most cosmological simulations. In this paper, we use the TNG50, which is a large cosmological galaxy formation simulation that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-28 Mohammad Hosseinirad , Fatemeh Tabatabaei , Mojtaba Raouf , Mahmood Roshan

A variety of observations suggest that magnetic fields are present in all galaxies and galaxy clusters. These fields are characterized by a modest strength (10^{-7}-10^{-5} G) and huge spatial scale (~Mpc). It is generally assumed that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence M. Widrow

We studied the total magnetic field strength in normal star-forming galaxies estimated using energy equipartition assumption. Using the well known radio--far infrared correlation we demonstrate that the equipartition assumption is valid in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-11 Aritra Basu , Subhashis Roy

Multi-frequency radio polarimetry of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron background gives new viewpoints on the Galactic magnetic field. Rotation measure maps reveal magnetic structures on arcminute to degree scales, such as a ring in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn , F. Heitsch

New low-frequency 74 and 330 MHz observations of the Galactic center (GC) region reveal the presence of a large-scale ($6\arcdeg\times 2\arcdeg$) diffuse source of nonthermal synchrotron emission. A minimum energy analysis of this emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 T. N. LaRosa , C. L. Brogan , S. N. Shore , T. J. Lazio , N. E. Kassim , M. E. Nord

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy and exhibit diverse magnetic behaviours. Understanding their large-scale magnetic fields is essential to study stellar dynamos and assess the impact of magnetic activity on planetary…

The existence of magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies is now well established through different methods of analysis. The most detailed evidence for the presence of cluster magnetic fields comes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Federica Govoni

We have succeeded in obtaining magnetized star models that have extremely strong magnetic fields in the interior of the star. In our formulation, arbitrary functions of the magnetic flux function appear in the expression for the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-03 Kotaro Fujisawa , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

The recent discoveries of several reliable events of high energy cosmic rays at an energy above 10^20 eV raise questions about their path through the nearby universe. The two analyses of the Haverah Park data set and the Akeno data set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Peter L. Biermann , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu

Magnetic fields in galaxy clusters have been measured using a variety of techniques, including: studies of synchrotron relic and halo radio sources within clusters, studies of inverse Compton X-ray emission from clusters, surveys of Faraday…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. L. Carilli , G. B. Taylor

We study the prospects of detecting magnetic helicity in galaxies by observing the dust polarization of the edge-on galaxy NGC 891. Our numerical results of mean-field dynamo calculations show that there should be a large-scale component of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Axel Brandenburg , Ray S. Furuya

Context: The importance of magnetic fields at the onset of star formation related to the early fragmentation and collapse processes is largely unexplored today. Aims: We want to understand the magnetic field properties at the earliest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 H. Beuther , J. Soler , W. Vlemmings , H. Linz , Th. Henning , R. Kuiper , R. Rao , R. Smith , T. Sakai , K. Johnston , A. Walsh , S. Feng

We investigate the magnetic field in an intermediate-velocity filament for which the H$\alpha$ intensity in the WHAM survey correlates with excess Faraday rotation of extragalactic radio sources over the length of the filament from b ~ 20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Jeroen M. Stil , Athena Hryhoriw

In the past few decades, some studies pointed out that magnetic field might affect the rotation curves in galaxies. However, the impact is relatively small compared with the effects of dark matter and the baryonic components. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-24 Man Ho Chan , Antonino Del Popolo

We present a polarisation map of the warm dust emission from the minispiral in the central parsec of the Galactic centre. The observations were made at a wavelength of 12.5 microns with CanariCam mounted on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-20 PF Roche , E Lopez-Rodriguez , CM Telesco , R Schodel , C Packham

Magnetic fields are widely observed in various astronomical contexts, yet much remains unknown about their significance across different systems and cosmic epochs. Our current knowledge of the evolution of magnetic fields is limited by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Jianhang Chen , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez , R. J. Ivison , James E. Geach , Simon Dye , Xiaohui Liu , George Bendo