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Pulsars provide unique probes for the {\it large-scale} interstellar magnetic field in the Galactic disk. The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey has discovered many distant pulsars which enables us for the first time to explore the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao , A. G. Lyne

We develop a new method for studying the Galactic magnetic field along the spiral arms using pulsar Faraday rotation measures (RMs). Our new technique accounts for the dot-product nature of Faraday rotation and also splits the associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-11 Alice P. Curtin , Joel M. Weisberg , Joanna M. Rankin

Faraday rotation of radio source polarization provides a measure of the integrated magnetic field along the observational lines of sight. We compare a new, large sample of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yongzhong Xu , Philipp P. Kronberg , Salman Habib , Quentin W. Dufton

The magnetic fields in our Milky Way can be revealed by the distribution of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of radio sources behind the Galaxy and of radio pulsars inside the Galaxy. Based on the antisymmetry of the Faraday sky in the inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-14 J. Xu , J. L. Han

Our purpose is to place firm observational constraints on the three most widely used theoretical models for the spatial configuration of the large-scale interstellar magnetic field in the Galactic disk, namely, the ring, the axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Men , K. Ferriere , J. L. Han

The forthcoming new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Our analysis aims on what can be learned from these sources concerning the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodion Stepanov , Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Peter Frick , Marita Krause

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 search for magnetic fields outside galaxies and galaxy clusters by investigating redshift evolution of Faraday rotation measures (RM) of extragalactic radio sources. Our analysis reveals a strong evidence for the redshift dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-08 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , M. Banafsheh

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

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 have observed a sample of 64 small diameter sources towards the central -6 degree < l< 6 degree, -2 degree < b < 2 degree of the Galaxy with the aim of studying the Faraday rotation measure near the Galactic Centre (GC) region. All the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. In the Milky Way, Faraday rotation of the polarized emission from pulsars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-24 R. Beck

We present a study of the rotation measure (RM) obtained from a sample of extra-galactic radio sources either embedded in or seen in projection through a sample of seven southern galaxy clusters (declination less than 30 degrees). We…

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

We have measured Faraday Rotation Measures (RMs) at Arecibo Observatory for 36 pulsars, 17 of them new. We combine these and earlier measurements to study the galactic magnetic field and its possible temporal variations. Many RM values have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Weisberg , J. M. Cordes , B. Kuan , K. E. Devine , J. T. Green , D. C. Backer

The future new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Hundred and thousands polarized background sources can be measured towards nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 T. G. Arshakian , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , P. Frick , M. Krause

Rotation measure (RM) grids of extragalactic radio sources have been widely used for studying cosmic magnetism. But their potential for exploring the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of galaxies is unclear, since other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Akahori , B. M. Gaensler , Dongsu Ryu

Magnetic fields in nearby, star-forming galaxies reveal both large-scale patterns and small-scale structures. A large-scale field reversal may exist in the Milky Way but no such reversals have been observed so far in external galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 David Moss , Rodion Stepanov , Tigran Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Dmitri Sokoloff

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

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

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