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The Parkes Galactic Meridian Survey (PGMS) is a 5 deg X 90 deg strip to map the polarized synchrotron emission along a Galactic meridian from the Galactic plane down to the south Galactic pole. The survey is carried out at the Parkes radio…

To study the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the Galactic centre (GC) we measured Faraday rotation of the radio emission of pulsars which are seen towards the GC. Three of these pulsars have the largest rotation measures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , R. P. Eatough , K. Ferrière , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , A. Noutsos , R. M. Shannon

We present new results on the clustering and three-dimensional distribution of radio galaxies from the Texas-Oxford NVSS Structure (TONS) survey. The TONS survey was constructed to look at the distribution of radio galaxies in a region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Kate Brand , Steve Rawlings , Joe Tufts , Gary Hill

We present a comprehensive polarimetric study of 26 nearby molecular clouds in four far-infrared bands (53 $\mu$m to 214 $\mu$m) using 52 archival SOFIA/HAWC+ datasets. Far-infrared dust polarization observations probe the plane-of-sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Kaitlyn Karpovich , Susan E. Clark , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

Magnetic fields play a pivotal role in the physics of interstellar medium in galaxies, but there are few observational constraints on how they evolve across cosmic time. Spatially resolved synchrotron polarization maps at radio wavelengths…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 S. A. Mao , C. Carilli , B. M. Gaensler , O. Wucknitz , C. Keeton , A. Basu , R. Beck , P. P. Kronberg , E. Zweibel

We present the first section of a radio continuum and polarization survey at medium Galactic latitudes carried out with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope at 1.4 GHz. Four large fields have been observed, which all together cover an area of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Uyaniker , E. Fuerst , W. Reich , P. Reich , R. Wielebinski

We made use of the two latest sets of Rotational Measures (RMs) of extra-galactic radio sources, namely the NRAO VLA Sky Survey otation Measures Catalogue, and a compilation by Kronberg&Newton-McGee(2011), to infer the global structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov , P. P. Kronberg , K. J. Newton-McGee

A convenient representation of the structure of the large-scale galactic magnetic field is required for the interpretation of polarization data in the sub-mm and radio ranges, in both the Milky Way and external galaxies. We develop a simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-14 Anvar Shukurov , Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Paul J. Bushby , James Hollins , Jorg P. Rachen

The Galactic magnetic field is an integral constituent of the interstellar medium (ISM), and knowledge of its structure is crucial to understanding Galactic dynamics. The Rotation Measures (RM) of extragalactic (EG) sources have been the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-28 Anna Ordog , Rebecca A. Booth , Cameron L. Van Eck , Jo-Anne C. Brown , Thomas L. Landecker

We present observations and analysis of the polarized radio emission from the nearby radio galaxy Fornax A over 1.28--3.1 GHz, using data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). In this, the first of two associated papers, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 C. S. Anderson , B. M. Gaensler , G. H. Heald , S. P. O'Sullivan , J. F. Kaczmarek , I. J. Feain

Context. The polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust offers a valuable tool for probing both the dust and the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, existing observations only yield the total amount of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Katia Ferrière , Ludovic Montier , Jean-Sébastien Carrière

We discuss a high resolution (FWHM~ 0.45 arcsec) image of the emissive polarization from warm dust in the minispiral in the Galactic Centre and discuss the implications for the magnetic field in the dusty filaments. The image was obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 P. F. Roche , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , C. M. Telesco , R. Schodel , C. Packham

Interstellar polarization at far-infrared through millimeter wavelengths (0.1 - 1 mm) is primarily due to thermal emission from dust grains aligned with magnetic fields. This mechanism has led to studies of magnetic fields in a variety of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-14 John E. Vaillancourt

Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of the interstellar medium (ISM) and remain a challenge for building a comprehensive understanding of galactic properties. Their study requires far-infrared polarimetric observations, which provide an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Diego Maglione , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez , Susan E. Clark , Kaitlyn Karpovich

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope has carried out a survey of the entire Southern Sky at 887.5MHz. The wide area, high angular resolution, and broad bandwidth provided by the low-band Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey…

Starlight polarimetry, when combined with accurate distance measurements, allows for exploration of the three-dimensional structure of local magnetic fields in great detail. We present optical polarimetric observations of stars in and close…

We present estimates of magnetic field in a number of AGNs from the Spectropolarimetric atlas of Smith, Young & Robinson (2002) from the observed degrees of linear polarization and the positional angles of spectral lines (H-alpha) (broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 N. A. Silant'ev , Yu. N. Gnedin , S. D. Buliga , M. Yu. Piotrovich , T. M. Natsvlishvili

The ultraviolet-to-radio continuum spectral energy distributions are presented for all 75 galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS). A principal component analysis of the sample shows that most of the sample's spectral…

We performed an integrated optical polarization survey of 70 nearby galaxies to study the relationship between linear polarization and galaxy properties. To date this is the largest survey of its kind. The data were collected at McDonald…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Amy Jones , Lifan Wang , Kevin Krisciunas , Emily Freeland