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Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure produces diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, and in general this signal dominates over the smooth halo signal at angles greater than a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-02 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

The strength of the total magnetic field in our Milky Way from radio Zeeman and synchrotron measurements is about 6 muG near the Sun and several mG in dense clouds, pulsar wind nebulae, and filaments near the Galactic Center. Diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

Small-scale magnetic turbulence observed by the Cluster spacecraft in the plasma sheet is investigated by means of a wavelet estimator suitable for detecting distinct scaling characteristics even in noisy measurements. The spectral…

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

We present multi-frequency maps of a portion of the Galactic Plane centered on a declination of -60 degrees with resolutions ranging from 0.2 to 0.9 degrees. The maps are optimized to detect unresolved source emission and are…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

The magnetic structure in the Galactic disk, the Galactic center and the Galactic halo can be delineated more clearly than ever before. In the Galactic disk, the magnetic structure has been revealed by starlight polarization within 2 or 3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. L. Han

We consider the synchrotron emission from electrons out in the Galactic halo bubble region where the Fermi bubble structures reside. Utilising a simple analytical expression for the non-thermal electron distribution and a toy magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-04 Vasundhara Shaw , Arjen van Vliet , Andrew M. Taylor

We investigate how observations of synchrotron intensity fluctuations can be used to probe the sonic and Alfv\'enic Mach numbers of interstellar turbulence, based on mock observations performed on simulations of magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 C. A. Herron , Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian , B. M. Gaensler , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

Within the classical convection--diffusion approximation, we show that the angular distribution of cosmic rays (CRs) in a highly turbulent flow may exhibit significant small-scale anisotropies. The CR intensity angular power spectrum $…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

Galactic transport models for cosmic rays involve the diffusive motion of these particles in the interstellar medium. Due to the large-scale structured galactic magnetic field this diffusion is anisotropic with respect to the local field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-07 Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Klaus Scherer , Ingo Büsching

An interesting strategy for indirect detection of Dark Matter comes through the amounts of electrons and positrons usually emitted by DM pair annihilation. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-08 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

Confusion noise due to extragalactic sources is a fundamental astrophysical limitation for experiments aimed at accurately determining the power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) down to arcmin angular scales and with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Toffolatti , G. De Zotti , F. Argüeso , C. Burigana

A new study of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray continuum radiation is presented, using a cosmic-ray propagation model which includes nucleons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and synchrotron radiation. Our treatment of the inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Scattering rates for a Goldreich-Sridhar (GS) spectrum of anisotropic, incompressible, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence are calculated in the quasilinear approximation. Because the small-scale fluctuations are constrained to have wave vectors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

We propose a phenomenological model for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We argue that nonlinear-wave interaction weakens as the energy cascade proceeds to small scales, however, the anisotropy of fluctuations along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev

The diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission should exhibit a low level of diffuse circular polarization (CP) due to the circular motions of the emitting relativistic electrons. This probes the Galactic magnetic field in a similar way as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Torsten A. Enßlin , Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Valentina Vacca , Niels Oppermann

The large scale pattern in the arrival directions of extragalactic cosmic rays that reach the Earth is different from that of the flux arriving to the halo of the Galaxy as a result of the propagation through the galactic magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-27 D. Harari , S. Mollerach , E. Roulet

Radio synchrotron emission is a powerful tool to study the strength and structure of magnetic fields in galaxies. Unpolarized synchrotron emission traces isotropic turbulent fields which are strongest in spiral arms and bars (20-30 \mu G)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-11 Rainer Beck

We show that the complex shape of the cosmic ray (CR) spectrum, as recently measured by PAMELA and inferred from Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations of molecular clouds in the Gould belt, can be naturally understood in terms of basic plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-10 Pasquale Blasi , Elena Amato , Pasquale D. Serpico