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We present an investigation into the magnetism of the Magellanic Bridge, carried out through the observation of Faraday rotation towards 167 polarized extragalactic radio sources spanning the continuous frequency range of 1.3 - 3.1 GHz with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 J. F. Kaczmarek , C. R. Purcell , B. M. Gaensler , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , J. Stevens

A red giant star is an evolved low- or intermediate-mass star that has exhausted its central hydrogen content, leaving a helium core and a hydrogen-burning shell. Oscillations of stars can be observed as periodic dimmings and brightenings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Gang Li , Sébastien Deheuvels , Jérôme Ballot , François Lignières

To better understand the origin and properties of cosmological magnetic fields, a detailed knowledge of magnetic fields in the large-scale structure of the Universe (galaxy clusters, filaments) is crucial. We propose a new statistical…

Combined data from gamma-ray telescopes and cosmic-ray detectors have produced some new surprising insights regarding intergalactic and galactic magnetic fields, as well as extragalactic background light. We review some recent advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Alexander Kusenko

The detection and study of magnetic fields surrounding galaxies is important to understand galaxy evolution since magnetic fields are tracers for dynamical processes in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and can have a significant impact on…

Most of the baryonic matter in the Universe is permeated by magnetic fields which affect many, if not most, of astrophysical phenomena both, in compact sources and in diffuse gas. Recent years have been marked by a worldwide surge of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

By observing the interacting galaxy NGC 3627 in radio polarization we try to answer the question to which degree the magnetic field follows the galactic gas flows. We obtained total power and polarized intensity maps at 8.46 GHz and 4.85…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Soida , M. Urbanik , R. Beck , R. Wielebinski , C. Balkowski

Magnetic fields in galaxies exist on various spatial scales. Large-scale magnetic fields are thought to be generated by the $\alpha-\Omega$ dynamo. Small-scale galactic magnetic fields (1 kpc and below) can be generated by tangling the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Anton Chupin , Rainer Beck , Peter Frick , George Heald , Dmitry Sokoloff , Rodion Stepanov

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

We describe a first attempt to derive properties of the regular and turbulent Galactic magnetic field from multi-frequency polarimetric observations of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron background. A single-cell-size model of the thin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

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 goal of this work is to investigate the Faraday rotation measure (RM) of radio galaxies in hot galaxy clusters in order to establish a possible connection between the magnetic field strength and the gas temperature of the intracluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Govoni , K. Dolag , M. Murgia , L. Feretti , S. Schindler , G. Giovannini , W. Boschin , V. Vacca , A. Bonafede

A decade ago, there was very limited knowledge of magnetic fields of our Galaxy. The local fields in the Solar vicinity were known to be directed towards a Galactic longitude $l\sim~90^{\circ}$ with reversed directions at smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han

The observed large-scale alignment of polarization angles and galaxy axis have been challenging the fundamental assumption of homogeneity and isotropy in standard cosmology since more than two decades. The intergalactic magnetic field, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 Prabhakar Tiwari , Pankaj Jain

Radio continuum observations allow to reveal the magnetic field structure in the disk and halo of nearby spiral galaxies, their magnetic field strength and vertical scale heights. The spiral galaxies studied so far show a similar magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-08 Marita Krause

We describe three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical modelling of powerful radio galaxies in realistic poor cluster environments. This modelling extends our earlier work on the hydrodynamics of radio galaxies as a function of their cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Hardcastle , M. G. H. Krause

Some galaxy clusters show diffuse radio emission in the form of giant halos (GHs) on Mpc scales or minihalos (MHs) on smaller scales. Comparing VLA and XMM radial profiles of several such clusters, we find a universal linear correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Uri Keshet , Abraham Loeb

We report a measurement of intergalactic magnetic fields using combined data from Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, based on the spectral data alone. If blazars are assumed to produce both gamma rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-03 Warren Essey , Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

(abridged) A detailed examination of the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields between high cosmic temperatures and the present epoch is presented. A simple analytical model matching the results of the 3D MHD simulations allows for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robi Banerjee , Karsten Jedamzik

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…