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In the standard cosmological model, the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background is interpreted as variation in the gravitational potential at the point of emission, due to the emitter being embedded in a region ${\cal C}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Lieu

It is well-recognized that the presence of magnetic fields will lead to anisotropic energy cascade and dissipation of astrophysical turbulence. With the diffusion approximation and linear dissipation rates, we study the cascade and damping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-31 Yanwei Jiang , Siming Liu , Vahé Petrosian

We extend the description of the isotropic and anisotropic random component of the small-scale magnetic field within the existing magnetic field model of the Milky Way from Jansson&Farrar, by including random realizations of the small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-02 Marcus C. Beck , Alexander M. Beck , Rainer Beck , Klaus Dolag , Andrew W. Strong , Peter Nielaba

By means of three dimensional high-resolution hybrid simulations we study the properties of the magnetic field spectral anisotropies near and beyond ion kinetic scales. By using both a Fourier analysis and a local analysis based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 Simone Landi , Luca Franci , Emanuele Papini , Andrea Verdini , Lorenzo Matteini , Petr Hellinger

It is well-known that magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. The correct understanding of the fundamental properties of MHD turbulence is a prerequisite for revealing many key astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Jianfu Zhang , Ruyue Wang

Context: The relation between Galactic cosmic-ray electrons, magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation. Aims: We exploit synchrotron radiation to constrain the low-energy interstellar electron spectrum, using various radio surveys and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , T. R. Jaffe

The distribution of atomic hydrogen in the Galactic plane is usually mapped using the Doppler shift of 21cm emission line. We calculate the emission spectrum in velocity slices of data (channel maps) and derive its dependence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan

We measure the power and spectral index anisotropy of high speed solar wind turbulence from scales larger than the outer scale down to the ion gyroscale, thus covering the entire inertial range. We show that the power and spectral indices…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. T. Wicks , T. S. Horbury , C. H. K. Chen , A. A. Schekochihin

Microwave emission of solar flares is formed primarily by incoherent gyrosynchrotron radiation generated by accelerated electrons in coronal magnetic loops. The resulting emission depends on many factors, including pitch-angle distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita , Gregory D. Fleishman

We are in motion against the cosmic backdrop. This motion is evidenced by the systematic temperature shift - or dipole anisotropy - observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). Because of the Doppler effect, the temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Chris Blake , Jasper Wall

We describe a first attempt to derive properties of the regular and turbulent Galactic magnetic field from multi-frequency polarimetric observations of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron background. A single-cell-size model of the thin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

Diffuse filaments connect galaxy clusters to form the cosmic web. Detecting these filaments could yield information on the magnetic field strength, cosmic ray population and temperature of intercluster gas, yet, the faint and large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Tessa Vernstrom , George Heald , Franco Vazza , Tim Galvin , Jennifer West , Nicola Locatelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Elena Pinetti

Turbulence in space plasmas usually exhibits two regimes separated by a spectral break that divides the so called inertial and kinetic ranges. Large scale magnetic fluctuations are dominated by non-linear MHD wave-wave interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro

Cosmic rays propagating in the Galaxy may excite a streaming instability when their motion is super-alfvenic, thereby producing the conditions for their own diffusion. We present the results of a self-consistent solution of the transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-19 R. Aloisio , P. Blasi

A higher-order multiscale analysis of spatial anisotropy in inertial range magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is presented using measurements from the STEREO spacecraft in fast ambient solar wind. We show for the first time that, when measuring…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. T. Osman , K. H. Kiyani , S. C. Chapman , B. Hnat

Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe, containing about 10^15 solar masses of hot (10^8 K) gas, galaxies and dark matter in a typical volume of about 10 Mpc^3. Magnetic fields and relativistic…

We explore in this paper the ability to constrain the Galactic magnetic field intensity and spatial distribution with the incoming data from the Planck satellite experiment. We perform realistic simulations of the Planck observations at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , F. -X. Désert , D. Santos

New calculations of the Galactic contamination over microwave background radiation anisotropies are carried out. On one hand, when a frequency-dependent contrast of molecular clouds with respect to the Galactic background of the diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Lopez-Corredoira

Extremely flat and inverted radio spectra as observed in galactic nuclei and BL Lac sources are still a challenge for fast particle acceleration models. Continuous acceleration by electric fields in reconnection regions can result in almost…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. T. Birk , A. R. Crusius--Waetzel , H. Lesch

Radio synchrotron polarization maps of the Galaxy can be used to infer the properties of interstellar turbulence in the diffuse warm ionized medium (WIM). In this paper, we investigate the spatial gradient of linearly polarized synchrotron…