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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

The degree to which the formation and evolution of clouds and filaments in the interstellar medium is regulated by magnetic fields remains an open question. Yet the fundamental properties of the fields (strength and 3D morphology) are not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 Stefan Reissl , Amelia M. Stutz , Ralf S. Klessen , Daniel Seifried , Stefanie Walch

The intracluster medium (ICM) is stably stratified in the hydrodynamic sense with the entropy $s$ increasing outwards. However, thermal conduction along magnetic field lines fundamentally changes the stability of the ICM, leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Sharma , B. D. G. Chandran , E. Quataert , I. J. Parrish

Using the linearly polarized intensity and polarization angle data at 3.6, 6.2 and 20 cm, we determine variations of Faraday rotation and depolarization across the nearby galaxy M33. A 3-D model of the regular magnetic field is fitted to…

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

Context. The existence of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is largely unconstrained. Their detection is important as magnetic fields can have a significant impact on the evolution of the CGM and, in turn, the fields can…

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

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. The total intensity traces the strength and distribution of total magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

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

The aim of this work is to investigate the average properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) magnetic fields, and to search for possible correlations with the ICM thermal properties and cluster radio emission. We have selected a sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Bonafede , F. Govoni , L. Feretti , M. Murgia , G. Giovannini , M. Brueggen

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

Magnetic fields in large scale structure filaments beyond galaxy clusters remain poorly understood. Superclusters offer a unique setting to study these low density environments, where weak signals make detection challenging. The Faraday…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 G. V. Pignataro , S. P. O'Sullivan , A. Bonafede , G. Bernardi , F. Vazza , E. Carretti

Faraday rotation has been seen at millimeter wavelengths in several low luminosity active galactic nuclei, including Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) targets M87* and Sgr A*. The observed rotation measure (RM) probes the density, magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Angelo Ricarte , Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Ramesh Narayan , Charles Gammie , Michael Johnson

Studying the nature and origin of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) is an outstanding problem of cosmology. Measuring Faraday rotation would be a promising method to explore the IGMF in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu

Collisionless plasmas are ubiquitous in the Universe. In general full kinetic equations are needed for a correct description of the physics in such environments. Fluid approximations are, at some special cases, valid. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 Diego Falceta-Goncalves

Various observations of magnetic fields in the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM), most of the time restricted to cluster cores, point towards field strength of the order of a few microG (synchrotron radiation from radio relics and radio halos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Dubois , R. Teyssier

Cluster media are dynamical, not static; observational evidence suggests they are turbulent. High-resolution simulations of the intracluster media (ICMs) and of idealized, similar media help us understand the complex physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 T. W. Jones , David H. Porter , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

The Faraday rotation effect, quantified by the Rotation Measure (RM), is a powerful probe of the large-scale magnetization of the Universe - tracing magnetic fields not only on galaxy and galaxy cluster scales but also in the intergalactic…

Maps of Galactic polarized continuum emission at 1408, 1660, and 1713 MHz towards the local Taurus molecular cloud complex were made with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope. Minima in the polarized emission which are located at the boundary of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maik Wolleben , Wolfgang Reich

The electron mean free path in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters is much larger than the gyroradius; thus, heat is transported anisotropically along magnetic field lines. We show that the intracluster medium is unstable to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ian J. Parrish , James M. Stone , M. Nicole Lemaster

We present a Bayesian maximum likelihood analysis of Faraday rotation measure (RM) maps of extended radio sources to determine magnetic field power spectra in clusters of galaxies. Using this approach, it is possible to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Corina Vogt , Torsten A. Ensslin