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Understanding diffuse Galactic radio emission is interesting both in its own right and for minimizing foreground contamination of cosmological measurements. Cosmic Microwave Background experiments have focused on frequencies > 10 GHz,…

Weak gravitational lensing measurements are traditionally made at optical wavelengths where many highly resolved galaxy images are readily available. However, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) holds great promise for this type of measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Prina Patel , Ian Harrison , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Abdalla , David Bacon , Michael L. Brown , Ian Heywood , Matt Jarvis , Oleg Smirnov

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density is an essential characteristic of the structure of molecular clouds or the interstellar medium in general. Observations of the PDF of molecular clouds indicate a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Joerg Fischera

We present high sensitivity and absolutely calibrated images of diffuse radio polarisation at a resolution of about 10 arcmin covering the range 10 degr <l<34 degr and |b|<5 degr at 2.3 GHz from the S-band Parkes All Sky Survey and at 4.8…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 X. H. Sun , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti , C. R. Purcell , L. Stavelley-Smith , G. Bernardi , M. Haverkorn

21cm intensity mapping experiments aim to observe the diffuse neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution on large scales which traces the Cosmic structure. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the capacity to measure the 21cm signal over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Laura Wolz , Filipe B. Abdalla , David Alonso , Chris Blake , Philip Bull , Tzu-Ching Chang , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Marios G. Santos , Richard Shaw

We construct a pipeline for simulating weak lensing cosmology surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), taking as inputs telescope sensitivity curves; correlated source flux, size and redshift distributions; a simple ionospheric model;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Anna Bonaldi , Ian Harrison , Stefano Camera , Michael L. Brown

We present Rotation Measures (RM) of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) and compare them to RMs of extragalactic sources in order to study the large-scale reversal in the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-07 A. Ordog , J. C. Brown , R. Kothes , T. L. Landecker

Before using 3D MHD simulations of the solar photosphere in the determination of elemental abundances, one has to ensure that the correct amount of magnetic flux is present in the simulations. The presence of magnetic flux modifies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 C. Beck , D. Fabbian , R. Rezaei , K. G. Puschmann

We present multi-frequency maps of a portion of the Galactic Plane centered on a declination of -60 degrees with resolutions ranging from 0.2 to 0.9 degrees. The maps are optimized to detect unresolved source emission and are…

We present a framework for forecasting cosmological constraints from future neutral hydrogen intensity mapping experiments at low to intermediate redshifts. In the process, we establish a simple way of comparing such surveys with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Prina Patel , Mario G. Santos

This is the third in a series of papers that present observations and results for a sample of 76 ultra-steep-spectrum radio sources designed to find galaxies at high redshift. Here we present multi-frequency radio observations, from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. J. Klamer , R. D. Ekers , J. J. Bryant , R. W. Hunstead , E. M. Sadler , C. De Breuck

The aim of this paper is to identify and study the properties and galactic content of groups and clusters in the GOODS-South field up to z\sim2.5, and to analyse the physical properties of galaxies as a continuous function of environmental…

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. In the Milky Way, Faraday rotation of the polarized emission from pulsars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-24 R. Beck

Observations of the properties of dense molecular clouds are critical in understanding the process of star-formation. One of the most important, but least understood, is the role of the magnetic fields. We discuss the possibility of using…

Aims - We report new Very Large Array polarimetric observations of Compact Steep-Spectrum (CSS) sources at 8.4, 15, and 23GHz. Methods - Using multi-frequency VLA observations we have derived sub-arcsecond resolution images of the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Mantovani , A. Rossetti , W. Junor , D. J. Saikia , C. J. Salter

Regular magnetic field structures can be derived from the Faraday rotation measures (RM) of polarized background sources observable at 1.4 GHz with the SKA. At lower frequencies ($<250$ MHz) polarimetry of radio sources with the Low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck

We present a study of the cosmological Ly$\alpha$ emission signal at $z > 4$. Our goal is to predict the power spectrum of the spatial fluctuations that could be observed by an intensity mapping survey. The model uses the latest data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 P. Comaschi , A. Ferrara

We present results from simulations of the extragalactic polarized sky at 1.4 GHz. As the basis for our polarization models, we use a semi-empirical simulation of the extragalactic total intensity (Stokes I) continuum sky developed at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-13 S. P. O'Sullivan , J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor , R. Ricci , J. K. Grant , K. Shorten

Using a suite of self-similar cosmological simulations, we measure the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of real-space density, redshift-space density, and their geometric mean. We find that the real-space density PDF is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Huanqing Chen , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Philip Mansfield

We present new 6 and 20 cm Very Large Array (VLA) observations of polarized continuum emission of roughly 0.5 square degrees of the Galactic center (GC) region. The 6 cm observations detect diffuse linearly-polarized emission throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 C. J. Law , M. A. Brentjens , G. Novak