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The goal of this work is to put constraints on the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the cluster of galaxies A2382. We investigate the relationship between magnetic field and Faraday rotation effects in the cluster, using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Guidetti , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , P. Parma , L. Gregorini , H. R. de Ruiter , R. A. Cameron , R. Fanti

The goal of this work is to constrain the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the nearby cluster of galaxies A2255. At radio wavelengths A2255 is characterized by the presence of a polarized radio halo at the cluster center, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Govoni , M. Murgia , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , K. Dolag , G. B. Taylor

The goal of this work is to constrain the strength and structure of the magnetic field associated with the environment of the radio source 3C 449, using observations of Faraday rotation, which we model with a structure function technique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Guidetti , R. A. Laing , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Gregorini , P. Parma

We present a numerical approach to investigate the relationship between magnetic fields and Faraday rotation effects in clusters of galaxies. We can infer the structure and strength of intra-cluster magnetic fields by comparing our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa , R. Fanti , G. B. Taylor , K. Dolag

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe, including galaxy clusters, and affect the thermodynamical properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that seed magnetic fields are amplified up to the $\mu$G-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 A. Pagliotta , C. J. Riseley , A. Bonafede , C. Stuardi , F. Loi

The goal of this work is to investigate the Faraday rotation measure (RM) of radio galaxies in hot galaxy clusters in order to establish a possible connection between the magnetic field strength and the gas temperature of the intracluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Govoni , K. Dolag , M. Murgia , L. Feretti , S. Schindler , G. Giovannini , W. Boschin , V. Vacca , A. Bonafede

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 aim of the present work is to constrain the Coma cluster magnetic field strength, its radial profile and power spectrum by comparing Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) images with numerical simulations of the magnetic field. We have analyzed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Bonafede , L. Feretti , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa , K. Dolag , G. B. Taylor

The observed magnetic field of microgauss strength in clusters of galaxies should induce the Faraday rotation effect on the linearly polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation when the CMB radiation propagates through a cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahiro Takada , Hiroshi Ohno , Naoshi Sugiyama

The goal of this work is to investigate the power spectrum of the magnetic field associated with the giant radio halo in the galaxy cluster A665. For this, we present new deep Very Large Array total intensity and polarization observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 V. Vacca , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , E. Orrú , A. Bonafede

The line-of-sight magnetic field of galaxy clusters can be probed using Faraday rotation measure (RM) data. However, our understanding of cluster magnetism is limited due to the scarcity of polarized background radio sources, with most…

We present Faraday rotation data for radio sources in the centers of the Abell clusters A400 and A2634. These clusters contain large (> 100 kpc), tailed radio sources, each attached to the central cD galaxy. These clusters do not have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jean A. Eilek , Frazer N. Owen

We present multi-frequency VLA observations of the two radio galaxies 3C 129 and 3C 129.1 embedded in a luminous X-ray cluster. These radio observations reveal a substantial difference in the Faraday Rotation Measures (RMs) toward 3C 129.1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 G. B. Taylor , F. Govoni , S. A. Allen , A. C. Fabian

We present an analysis of the magnetic-field fluctuations in the magnetoionic medium in front of the radio galaxy 3C 31 derived from rotation-measure (RM) fits to high-resolution polarization images. We first show that the Faraday rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-05 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

We present a detailed examination of the relationship between the magnetic field structures and the variations in Faraday Rotation across PKS1246-410, a radio source in the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, using data from Taylor, Fabian and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Rudnick , K. Blundell

Studying the interaction between AGN jets and lobes and their surrounding environment is important in order to understand how they transfer energy to their environment as well as determining the intrinsic physical properties of the sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-08 S. Knuettel , S. P. O'Sullivan , S. Curiel , B. H. C. Emonts

To search for a signature of an intracluster magnetic field, we compare measurements of Faraday rotation of polarised extragalactic radio sources in the line of sight of galaxy clusters with those outside. We correlated a catalogue of 1383…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon , Philipp P. Kronberg

We are developing a new approach to investigate cluster magnetic field strengths and structures. It is based on the comparison of simulated Rotation Measure and radio halo images, obtained from 3-dimensional multi-scale cluster magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Govoni , L. Feretti , M. Murgia , G. B. Taylor , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa

The presence of magnetic fields in the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies has been revealed through several different observational techniques. These fields may be dynamically important in clusters as they will provide additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tracy E. Clarke

We present full-polarisation, broadband observations of the radio galaxy NGC 612 (PKS B0131-637) from 1.3 to 3.1 GHz using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The relatively large angular scale of the radio galaxy makes it a good…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 J. F. Kaczmarek , C. R. Purcell , B. M. Gaensler , X. Sun , S. P. O'Sullivan , N. M. McClure-Griffiths
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