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[ABRIDGED] The knowledge of the regular component of the Galactic magnetic field gives important information about the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way, as well as constitutes a basic tool to determine cosmic rays trajectories. It…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Ruiz-Granados , J. A. Rubino-Martin , E. Battaner

The existence of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) is an open problem in cosmology and has never been unambiguously confirmed. High-energy gamma rays emitted by blazars are unique probes of cosmic magnetism, as their interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-02 Rafael Alves Batista

Polarization data from high mass star formation regions (W51 e2/e8, Orion BN/KL) are used to derive statistical properties of the plane of sky projected magnetic field. Structure function and auto-correlation function are calculated for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

Geospace phenomena such as the aurora, plasma motion, ionospheric currents and associated magnetic field disturbances are highly organized by Earth's main magnetic field. This is due to the fact that the charged particles that comprise…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-01 K. M. Laundal , A. D. Richmond

Polarimeric maps have been used on the characterization of the magnetic field in molecular clouds. However, it is difficult to determine the 3-dimensional properties of these regions from the projected maps. In that case, numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian , G. Kowal

A previously published analytical magnetohydrodynamic model for the local interstellar magnetic field in the vicinity of the heliopause (R\"oken et al. 2015) is extended from incompressible to compressible, yet predominantly subsonic flow,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Kleimann , C. Röken , H. Fichtner

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in star formation, yet tracing them becomes particularly challenging, especially in the presence of outflow feedback in protostellar systems. We targeted the star-forming region L1551, notable for its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-26 Mingrui Liu , Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

The HH 1-2 region in the L1641 molecular cloud was observed in the near-IR J, H, and Ks bands, and imaging polarimetry was performed. Seventy six point-like sources were detected in all three bands. The near-IR polarizations of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Jungmi Kwon , Minho Choi , Soojong Pak , Ryo Kandori , Motohide Tamura , Tetsuya Nagata , Shuji Sato

In the energy range from ~ 10^12 eV to ~ 10^15 eV, the Galactic cosmic ray flux has anisotropies both on large scales, with an amplitude of the order of 0.1%, and on scales between ~ 10 and ~ 30 degrees, with amplitudes smaller by a factor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Giacinti , G. Sigl

This work presents the magnetic field geometry in a complex of three cometary (with head-tail morphology) globules, namely LDN 323, LDN 328, and LDN 331, using R-band polarization measurements of background stars. These observations were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Siddharth Kumar , Archana Soam , Nirupam Roy

The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (GPIPS) seeks to characterize the magnetic field in the dusty Galactic disk using near-infrared stellar polarimetry. All GPIPS observations were completed using the 1.83 m Perkins telescope…

The magnetic field pervading our Galaxy is a crucial constituent of the interstellar medium: it mediates the dynamics of interstellar clouds, the energy density of cosmic rays, and the formation of stars. The field associated with ionized…

It is well known that aligned, aspherical dust grains emit polarized radiation and that the degree of polarization depends on the angle $\psi$ between the interstellar magnetic field and the line of sight. However, anisotropy of the dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Brandon S. Hensley , Cheng Zhang , James J. Bock

Accurately measuring the magnetic field in the ISM is essential for understanding star-formation processes. We searched archival data of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) for evidence of circular polarization in common molecular tracers, most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 Mohammed Chamma , Martin Houde , Josep Miquel Girart , Ramprasad Rao

A new method for measuring the global magnetic field structure of the Galactic plane is presented. We have determined the near-infrared polarization of field stars around 52 Cepheids found in recent surveys toward the Galactic plane. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-20 Tetsuya Zenko , Tetsuya Nagata , Mikio Kurita , Masaru Kino , Shogo Nishiyama , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Yasushi Nakajima

We present the first circular polarization measurements of circumstellar water masers around a sample of late-type stars. These observations are used to obtain the magnetic field strength in the water maser region with both an LTE and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 W. H. T. Vlemmings , P. J. Diamond , H. J. van Langevelde

The birefringent effects of photon-pseudoscalar boson (Goldstone) particle mixing in intergalactic magnetic field are calculated for cosmological objects. We use the recent results of PVLAS collaboration that reported recently the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu. N. Gnedin , M. Yu. Piotrovich , T. M. Natsvlishvili

The Earth's magnetic field can be decomposed into spherical harmonics, and the exact coefficients of the decomposition can be determined through a few measurements of its value at different locations. Using measurements from a magnetometer…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Nuno Barros e Sá , Lourenço Faria , Bernardo Alves , Miguel Cymbron

We present the first interferometric polarization map of the W51 e1/e2 molecular cores obtained with the BIMA array at 1.3 mm wavelength with approximately 3 arcsecond resolution. The polarization angle varies smoothly across the double…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Shih-Ping Lai , Richard M. Crutcher , Jose M. Girart , Ramprasad Rao

We study the polar magnetism near an activity maximum when these regions change their polarity, from which it is expected that its magnetism should be less affected by the global field. To fully characterise the magnetic field vector, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Pastor Yabar , M. J. Martínez González , M. Collados