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We present numerical simulations for energy spectra and angular distributions of nucleons above 10^{19} eV injected by the radio-galaxy Centaurus A at a distance 3.4 Mpc and propagating in extra-galactic magnetic fields in the sub-micro…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. Isola , M. Lemoine , G. Sigl

We present a linear perturbation analysis of the magnetorotational instability in the presence of the cosmic rays. Dynamical effects of the cosmic rays are considered by a fluid description and the diffusion of cosmic rays is only along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Fazeleh Khajenabi

The relationship between magnetic field strength and gas density is essential to understand the interstellar medium and star formation. Zeeman measurements in dense atomic and molecular gas phases have traditionally been used to directly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 David Whitworth , Amit Seta , Ralph E. Pudritz , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Juan D. Soler , Aina Palau , Ralf S. Klessen

Radio broadband spectro-polarimetric observations are sensitive to the spatial fluctuations of the Faraday depth (FD) within the telescope beam. Such FD fluctuations are referred to as "Faraday complexity", and can unveil small-scale…

Observed in a significant fraction of clusters and groups of galaxies, diffuse radio synchrotron emission reveals the presence of relativistic electrons and magnetic fields permeating large-scale systems of galaxies. Although these…

We improve on the model of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) from Jansson \& Farrar (2012), which was constrained using all-sky rotation measures of extragalactic sources and polarized and unpolarized synchrotron emission data from WMAP. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-14 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar

The propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in extragalactic magnetic fields can be diffusive, depending on the strength and properties of the fields. In some cases the propagation time of the particles can be comparable to the age of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Rafael Alves Batista , Guenter Sigl

The strength and spectrum of the extragalactic magnetic field are still unknown. Its measurement would help answer the question of whether galactic fields are purely a primordial relic or were dynamically enhanced from a much smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sangjin Lee , Angela Olinto , Guenter Sigl

The origin of the most energetic cosmic ray particles is one of the most important open problems in astrophysics. Despite a big experimental effort done in the past years, the sources of these very energetic particles remain unidentified.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

The polarized synchrotron data of the northern C-BASS survey show a surprisingly low linear polarization fraction, $\Pi\simeq 3\%$, while the magnetic field polarization features coherent structures over rather large angular scales. The low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 C. T. Becker , M. Kachelriess

Complementary views of galaxy clusters in the radio synchrotron, hard X-ray inverse Compton, and high-energy gamma-ray regimes are critical in calibrating them as high-precision cosmological probes. We present predictions for scaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Pfrommer

In the standard picture of cosmic ray transport the propagation of charged cosmic rays through turbulent magnetic fields is described as a random walk with cosmic rays scattering on magnetic field turbulence. This is in good agreement with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-08 Marco Kuhlen , Philipp Mertsch , Vo Hong Minh Phan

Understanding the role of magnetic fields in star-forming regions is of fundamental importance. In the near future, the exceptional sensitivity of SKA will offer a unique opportunity to evaluate the magnetic field strength in molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

Fluctuations and structure across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales are frequently studied in the solar wind. The properties of the low-frequency fluctuations are of relevance to turbulent energy injection into the plasma and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jiaming Wang , Francesco Pecora , Rohit Chhiber , Sohom Roy , William H. Matthaeus

Studying the nature and origin of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) is an outstanding problem of cosmology. Measuring Faraday rotation would be a promising method to explore the IGMF in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu

Measurements of the Galactic synchrotron emission is relevant for the 21-cm studies from the Epoch of Reionization. The study of the synchrotron emission is also useful to quantify the fluctuations in the magnetic field and the cosmic ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Samir Choudhuri , Abhik Ghosh , Nirupam Roy , Somnath Bharadwaj , Huib. T. Intema , Sk. Saiyad Ali

We describe a technique for probing the statistical properties of cosmic magnetic fields based on radio polarimetry data. Second-order magnetic field statistics like the power spectrum cannot always distinguish between magnetic fields with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Waelkens , A. A. Schekochihin , T. A. Ensslin

Polarised radio emission from PSR J1745-2900 has already been used to investigate the strength of the magnetic field in the Galactic Centre, close to Sagittarius A*. Here we report how persistent radio emission from this magnetar, for over…

We probe the statistical nature of the primordial density field by measuring correlations between the power in adjacent Fourier modes. For certain types of non-Gaussian field, these k-space correlations would be expected to be more extended…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 A. J. Stirling , J. A. Peacock

We studied Faraday rotation measure (RM) in turbulent media with the rms Mach number of unity, using isothermal, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations. Four cases with different values of initial plasma beta were considered. Our main…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Qingwen Wu , Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho , Paul Alexander