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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 use Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) chromospheric full-disk magnetograms, from the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) project, to study the distribution of magnetic field flux concentrations within the polar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-08 N. -E. Raouafi , J. W. Harvey , C. J. Henney

The configuration of the regular magnetic field in M31 is deduced from radio polarization observations at the wavelengths 6, 11 and 20 cm. By fitting the observed azimuthal distribution of polarization angles, we find that the regular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fletcher , E. M. Berkhuijsen , R. Beck , A. Shukurov

Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cathy Horellou , Andrew Fletcher

We study the polar magnetism near an activity maximum when these regions change their polarity, from which it is expected that its magnetism should be less affected by the global field. To fully characterise the magnetic field vector, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Pastor Yabar , M. J. Martínez González , M. Collados

We present polarization maps of dust emission at 340 GHz in the luminous high-mass protocluster, W3 IRS5, observed with the Submillimeter Array. The projected magnetic fields appear fairly organized with a pinched morphology in the northern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-08 Huei-Ru Vivien Chen , Qizhou Zhang , Tao-Chung Ching , H. Beuther , Kuo-Song Wang

We study the exponential scale length of total radio emission, the spectral index distribution, and the linear radio polarization in the Scd galaxy M33. Observations were carried out using the 3.6 cm dual channel and the 6.2 cm four channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. Tabatabaei , M. Krause , R. Beck

We present the second data release of the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS), consisting of wideband continuum catalogues of 391 pointings observed at L~band. The full wideband catalogue covers 4344 deg$^2$ of sky, reaches a depth of 10…

We present MUSE/VLT imaging spectroscopy of rest-frame ultraviolet emission lines and ALMA observations of the [CI] $^3$P$_1$-$^3$P$_0$ emission line, probing both the ionized and diffuse molecular medium around the radio galaxy 4C 19.71 at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Theresa Falkendal , Matthew D. Lehnert , Joël Vernet , Carlos De Breuck , Wuji Wang

We present deep polarimetric observations at 154 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), covering 625 deg^2 centered on RA=0 h, Dec=-27 deg. The sensitivity available in our deep observations allows an in-band, frequency-dependent…

We present a study of the magnetic field properties of NGC 4038/9 (the `Antennae' galaxies), the closest example of a late stage merger of two spiral galaxies. Wideband polarimetric observations were performed using the Karl G. Jansky Very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Aritra Basu , S. A. Mao , Amanda A. Kepley , Timothy Robishaw , Ellen G. Zweibel , John. S. Gallagher

Understanding the magnetised Universe is a major challenge in modern astrophysics, and cosmic magnetism has been acknowledged as one of the science key drivers of the most ambitious radio instrument ever planned, the SKA telescope. With…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Valentina Vacca , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Francesca Loi , Luigina Feretti , Hui Li , Elia Battistelli , Torsten A. Enßlin , Paolo Marchegiani

Observations of the southern peculiar galaxy NGC 2442 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array in total and linearly polarized radio continuum at 6cm are presented and compared with previously obtained H$\alpha$ data. The distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Harnett , M. Ehle , A. Fletcher , R. Beck , R. Haynes , S. Ryder , M. Thierbach , R. Wielebinski

The possibility of a polarization sounding of the pulsar magnetosphere is examined, using intrinsic pulsar emission as a probe signal, for modern radio telescopes operating in the meter and decameter wavelength range. Different models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , A. A. Seredkina

Magnetic fields have an impact on galaxy evolution at multiple scales. They are particularly important for starburst galaxies, where they play a crucial role in shaping the interstellar medium (ISM), influencing star formation processes and…

The magnetic field topology in the surrounding of neutron stars is one of the key questions in pulsar magnetospheric physics. A very extensive literature exists about the assumption of a dipolar magnetic field but very little progress has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Jerome Petri

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

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

As part of an ongoing series of deep GMRT surveys we have observed the Spitzer extragalactic First Look Survey field, producing the deepest wide-field 610-MHz survey published to date. We reach an rms noise of 30 microJy/beam before primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-12 Timothy Garn , Dominic Ford , Paul Alexander , David A. Green , Julia M. Riley

We report on new 1.41 GHz Green Bank Telescope and 352 MHz Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope observations of the Coma cluster and its environs. At 1.41 GHz we tentatively detect an extension to the Coma cluster radio relic source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Shea Brown , Lawrence Rudnick