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The Galactic magnetic field is important in the dynamics of our Galaxy. It is believed to play a role in star formation and influence the structure of the Galaxy. In order to understand how the Galactic magnetic field originally formed or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-15 Kyle Rae , Jo-Anne Brown

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

We present multi-frequency polarization observations of the diffuse radio synchrotron background modulated by Faraday rotation, in two directions of positive latitude. No extended total intensity I is observed, which implies that total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe and an important component of the interstellar medium. It is crucial to accurately model and understand their properties in different environments and across all mass ranges of galaxies to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Maria Werhahn , Rüdiger Pakmor , Rebekka Bieri , Freeke van de Voort , Rosie Y. Talbot , Volker Springel

We study the effect of inhomogeneities in the matter distribution of the universe on the Faraday rotation of light from distant QSOs and derive new limits on the cosmological magnetic field. The matter distribution in the Universe is far…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pasquale Blasi , Scott Burles , Angela V. Olinto

Fast Radio Bursts are bright, unresolved, non-repeating, broadband, millisecond flashes, found primarily at high Galactic latitudes, with dispersion measures much larger than expected for a Galactic source. The inferred all-sky burst rate…

The main observational results from radio continuum and polarization observations about the magnetic field strength and large-scale pattern for face-on and edge-on spiral galaxies are summarized and compared within our sample of galaxies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Marita Krause

A VLA Sky Survey of the extragalactic sky at S band (2-4 GHz) with polarization information can uniquely probe the magneto-ionic medium in a wide range of astrophysical environments over cosmic time. For a shallow all-sky survey, we expect…

We study the magnetic fields in galaxy clusters through Faraday rotation measurements crossing systems in different dynamical states. We confirm that magnetic fields are present in those systems and analyze the difference between relaxed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 Federico A. Stasyszyn , Martín de los Rios

We present three-frequency VLA observations of the flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414 made in order to study the magnetic field structure in absence of strong density wave flows. NGC 4414 shows a regular spiral pattern of observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Soida , R. Beck , M. Urbanik , J. Braine

Pulsars provide unique probes for the {\it large-scale} interstellar magnetic field in the Galactic disk. The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey has discovered many distant pulsars which enables us for the first time to explore the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao , A. G. Lyne

The origin of the substantial magnetic fields that are found in galaxies and on even larger scales, such as in clusters of galaxies, is yet unclear. If the second-order couplings between photons and electrons are considered, then…

Observations of the Faraday rotation measure, combined with the dispersion measure, can be used to infer the magnetoionic environment of a radio source. We investigate the magnetoionic environments of FRBs by deriving their estimated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

Even though magnetic fields play an important role in galaxy evolution, the redshift evolution of galactic-scale magnetic fields is not well constrained observationally. In this paper we aim to provide an observational constraint on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-18 Timea Orsolya Kovacs , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Yik Ki Ma , B. M. Gaensler

The possibility that the magnetic field is strongly correlated with the large-scale structure of the universe has been recently proposed in the literature. In this scenario the intergalactic magnetic field has a strong (m Gauss) regular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo Medina Tanco

We present a study of the vertical magnetic field of the Milky Way towards the Galactic poles, determined from observations of Faraday rotation toward more than 1000 polarized extragalactic radio sources at Galactic latitudes |b| > 77 degs,…

Intracluster magnetic fields with $ \sim \mu G $ strength induce Faraday rotation on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Measurements of this effect can potentially probe the detailed structure of intracluster magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hiroshi Ohno , Masahiro Takada , Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Naoshi Sugiyama

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

We present a novel method to search for structures of coherently aligned patterns in ultra-high energy cosmic-ray arrival directions simultaneously across the entire sky. This method can be used to obtain information on the Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 Marcus Wirtz , Teresa Bister , Martin Erdmann