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Measuring the properties of extragalactic magnetic fields through the effect of Faraday rotation provides a means to understand the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism. Here we use data from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) to…

We investigate the distribution of Faraday rotation measure (RM) in the M87 jet at arc-second scales by using archival polarimetric VLA data at 8, 15, 22 and 43 GHz. We resolve the structure of the RM in several knots along the jet for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Juan-Carlos Algaba , Keiichi Asada , Masanori Nakamura

We present the first cosmological simulations of primordial magnetic fields derived from the constraints by the Cosmic Microwave Background observations, based on the fields' gravitational effect on cosmological perturbations. We evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 F. Vazza , D. Paoletti , S. Banfi , F. Finelli , C. Gheller , S. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen

Observations of radio halos and relics in galaxy clusters indicate efficient electron acceleration. Protons should likewise be accelerated, suggesting that clusters may also be sources of very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray…

We are developing a new approach to investigate cluster magnetic field strengths and structures. It is based on the comparison of simulated Rotation Measure and radio halo images, obtained from 3-dimensional multi-scale cluster magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Govoni , L. Feretti , M. Murgia , G. B. Taylor , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa

We present a study of the line-of-sight magnetic fields in five large-diameter Galactic HII regions. Using the Faraday rotation of background polarized radio sources, as well as dust-corrected H-alpha surface brightness as a probe of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Lisa Harvey-Smith , Gregory J. Madsen , Bryan M. Gaensler

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of the polarized emission from extragalactic radio sources occulted by the coronal plasma were used to infer the radial profile of the inner heliospheric magnetic field near solar minimum activity. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-20 S. Mancuso , M. V. Garzelli

We present a detailed examination of the relationship between the magnetic field structures and the variations in Faraday Rotation across PKS1246-410, a radio source in the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, using data from Taylor, Fabian and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Rudnick , K. Blundell

We studied the polarization behavior of the quasar 3C 273 over the 1 mm wavelength band at ALMA with a total bandwidth of 7.5GHz across 223 to 243 GHz at 0.8 arcsec resolution, corresponding to 2.1 kpc at the distance of 3C 273. With these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 T. Hovatta , S. O'Sullivan , I. Martí-Vidal , T. Savolainen , A. Tchekhovskoy

Context: Faraday rotation measurements of extragalactic radio sources during coronal occultation allow assessment of both the electron density distribution and the three-dimensional magnetic field topology in the outer solar corona. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Mancuso , M. V. Garzelli

A variety of models have been explored in regard to the origin of the excess extreme ultraviolet (~ 0.1 keV) emission in the Coma cluster. It is now established that the flux is non-thermal and the only non-thermal source mechanism that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming Yann Tsay , Chorng-Yuan Hwang , Stuart Bowyer

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

Observational evidence for the existence of cosmic magnetic fields in intergalactic space coherent over Mpc scales is presented. Using an unprecedentedly large sample of Faraday rotation measures of radio sources from the NRAO VLA Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-16 Jounghun Lee , Ue-Li Pen , A. Russell Taylor , Jeroen M. Stil , Caleb Sunstrum

Multi-frequency polarimetry with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) telescope has revealed absolute Faraday Rotation Measures (RMs) in excess of 1000 rad/m/m in the central regions of 7 out of 8 strong quasars studied (e.g., 3C 273, 3C…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. B. Taylor

It has recently been suggested that conduction-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities may operate at all radii within an intracluster medium (ICM), and profoundly affect the structure of a cluster's magnetic field. Where MHD…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tamara Bogdanovic , Christopher Reynolds , Richard Massey

We assess the principal statistical and physical uncertainties associated with the determination of magnetic field strengths in clusters of galaxies from measurements of Faraday rotation (FR) and Compton-synchrotron emissions. In the former…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 William I. Newman , Alice L. Newman , Yoel Rephaeli

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe, including galaxy clusters, and affect the thermodynamical properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that seed magnetic fields are amplified up to the $\mu$G-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 A. Pagliotta , C. J. Riseley , A. Bonafede , C. Stuardi , F. Loi

We study the properties of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $z<1$ galaxies by correlating Faraday rotation measures of $\sim 1,000$ high-redshift radio sources with the foreground galaxy number density estimated from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Ting-Wen Lan , J. Xavier Prochaska

The autocorrelation function and similarly the Fourier-power spectrum of a rotation measure (RM) map of an extended background radio source can be used to measure components of the magnetic autocorrelation and power-spectrum tensor within a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin , Corina Vogt

We present a distance-resolved reconstruction of the local line-of-sight Galactic magnetic field, $B_{||}$, by combining a 3D electron density ($n_{e}$) map derived from dust map-informed simulations and a full-sky map of Faraday rotation…