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Context: The Faraday rotation measure (RM) is often used to study the magnetic field strength and orientation within the ionized medium of the Milky Way. Observations indicate a RM in the spiral arms that exceeds the commonly assumed range.…

Magnetic fields are of critical importance for our understanding of the origin and long-term evolution of the Milky Way. This is due to their decisive role in the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) and their influence on…

We present observations of a new group of structures in the diffuse Galactic ISM: slender, linear HI features we dub "fibers" that extend for many degrees at high Galactic latitude. To characterize and measure the extent and strength of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 S E Clark , J E G Peek , M E Putman

We introduce a new cross-correlation method to detect and verify the astrophysical origin of Faraday Rotation (FR) in multiwavelength surveys. FR is well studied in radio astronomy from radio point sources but the $\lambda^{2}$ suppression…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 Matthew Kolopanis , Philip Mauskopf , Judd Bowman

The rotation measure (RM) and dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) serve as critical probes of the magneto-ionic environments along the line of sight. The significant temporal evolution of RM observed in some repeating FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Qing Zhao , Di Xiao , Xue-Feng Wu

Structures in the magnetoionic medium exist across a wide range of angular sizes owing to large-scale magnetic fields coherent over the Galactic spiral arms combined with small-scale fluctuations in the magnetic field and electron density…

We present maps of the sign of the Faraday Rotation measure [sign(RM)] obtained from multi-frequency radio observations on the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Many of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) considered have B-field structures with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andrea Reichstein , Denise Gabuzda

Faraday rotation measurements of polarized extragalactic sources probe the Galactic magnetized, ionized interstellar medium. Rotation measures of these sources behind the inner Galactic plane are used to explore characteristics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijke Haverkorn

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…

We use the observed polarisation properties of a sample of 26 powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars to constrain the conditions in the Faraday screens local to the sources. We adopt the cosmological redshift, low-frequency radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Goodlet , C. R. Kaiser

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) play an integral role in galaxy formation and evolution by influencing galaxies and their environments through radio jet feedback. Historically, interpreting observations of radio galaxies and quantifying radio…

We investigate the effect of spiral structure on the Galactic disk as viewed by pencil beams centered on the Sun, relevant to upcoming surveys such as ARGOS, SEGUE, and GAIA. We create synthetic Galactic maps which we call Pencil Beam Maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Minchev , A. Quillen

Using the numerical data of MHD simulation for AGN jets based on our ``sweeping magnetic twist model'', we calculated the Faraday rotation measure (FRM) and the Stokes parameters to compare with observations. We propose that the FRM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Uchida , H. Kigure , S. Hirose , M. Nakamura , R. Cameron

We present the first Faraday rotation measure (RM) grid study of an individual low-mass cluster -- the Fornax cluster -- which is presently undergoing a series of mergers. Exploiting commissioning data for the POlarisation Sky Survey of the…

Fast radio bursts (FRB) will become important cosmological tools, as the number of observed FRBs is increasing rapidly with more surveys being carried out. A large sample of FRBs with dispersion measures (DM) and rotation measures (RM) can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Timea Orsolya Kovacs , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Yik Ki Ma , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker

We have performed a statistical analysis of a sample of 1100 extra-galactic rotation measures (RMs) obtained from the literature. Using a subsample of approximately 800 reliable RMs we compute a rotation measure sky and determine reliable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Johnston-Hollitt , C. P. Hollitt , R. D. Ekers

We use a homogeneous sample of about 1100 rotation curves (RCs) and relative surface photometry to investigate (out to 2 optical radii and over 6 mag) the main mass structure properties of spirals. We confirm the strong dependence on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Persic , P. Salucci , F. Stel

We present 1420 MHz (lambda=21cm) observations of polarized emission from an area of 117 degree square in the Galactic plane in Cygnus, covering 82 < l < 95, -3.5 < b < +5.5, a complex region where the line of sight is directed nearly along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Uyaniker , T. L. Landecker , A. D. Gray , R. Kothes

We present the results of an Australia Telescope Compact Array 1.4 GHz spectropolarimetric aperture synthesis survey of 34 square degrees centred on Centaurus A - NGC 5128. A catalogue of 1005 extragalactic compact radio sources in the…

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
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