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Geometric optics approximation is sufficient to describe the effects in the near-Earth environment. In this framework Faraday rotation is purely a reference frame (gauge) effect. However, it cannot be simply dismissed. Establishing local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Pravin Kumar Dahal , Daniel R. Terno

Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cathy Horellou , Andrew Fletcher

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis requires the recovery of the Faraday Dispersion Function (FDF) from measurements restricted to limited wavelength ranges, which is an ill-conditioned deconvolution problem. Here, we propose a novel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Andrecut

The line-of-sight structure of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) can be studied using Faraday rotation measure (RM) grids. We analyze how the choice of interpolation kernel can affect the accuracy and reliability of reconstructed RM maps.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Affan Khadir , Ayush Pandhi , Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Bryan Gaensler , Shannon Vanderwoude , Jennifer West , Shane O'Sullivan

Faraday rotation has been seen at millimeter wavelengths in several low luminosity active galactic nuclei, including Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) targets M87* and Sgr A*. The observed rotation measure (RM) probes the density, magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Angelo Ricarte , Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Ramesh Narayan , Charles Gammie , Michael Johnson

We present new Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for 148 extragalactic radio sources behind the southern Galactic plane (253o < l < 356o, |b| < 1.5o), and use these data in combination with published data to probe the large-scale structure of…

Detecting and characterizing the anisotropy pattern of the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays are crucial steps towards the identification of their sources. We discuss a possible distortion of the cosmic ray flux induced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Sihem Kalli , Martin Lemoine , Kumiko Kotera

Accurate analyses of present and next-generation galaxy surveys require new ways to handle effects of non-linear gravitational structure formation in data. To address these needs we present an extension of our previously developed algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

Faraday rotation measurements have provided an invaluable technique with which to measure the properties of astrophysical magnetized plasmas. Unfortunately, typical observations provide information only about the density-weighted average of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Avery E. Broderick , Roger D. Blandford

Quickly growing computing facilities and an increasing number of extragalactic observations encourage the application of data-driven approaches to uncover hidden relations from astronomical data. In this work we raise the problem of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 A. Elyiv , O. Melnyk , I. Vavilova , D. Dobrycheva , V. Karachentseva

Rotation measure synthesis allows the estimation of Faraday dispersion via a Fourier transform and is the primary tool to probe cosmic magnetic fields. We show this can be considered mathematically equivalent to the one dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Extragalactic foregrounds in temperature maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) severely limit the ability of standard estimators to reconstruct the weak lensing potential. These foregrounds are not fully removable by multi-frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Noah Sailer , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

The forthcoming new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Our analysis aims on what can be learned from these sources concerning the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodion Stepanov , Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Peter Frick , Marita Krause

We investigate the possibility of measuring intergalactic magnetic fields using the dispersion measures and rotation measures of fast radio bursts. With Bayesian methods, we produce probability density functions for values of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Stefan Hackstein , Marcus Brüggen , Franco Vazza , Bryan Gaensler , Volker Heesen

We discuss the problem of ultra high energy nuclei propagation in extragalactic background radiations. The present paper is the continuation of the accompanying paper I where we have presented three new analytic methods to calculate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-04 R. Aloisio , V. Berezinsky , S. Grigorieva

Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) should be interpreted with caution because there could be multiple magneto-ionized medium components that contribute to the net Faraday rotation along sight-lines. We introduce a simple test using Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Seoyoung Lyla Jung , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths , Alex S. Hill

In this paper, we study the propagation of cosmic-ray nuclei and protons. We emphasize the influence of the source composition on the expected spectrum and composition on Earth as well as on the phenomenology of the transition from Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-18 D. Allard

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

We propose the use of robust, Bayesian methods for estimating extragalactic distance errors in multi-measurement catalogs. We seek to improve upon the more commonly used frequentist propagation-of-error methods, as they fail to explain both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Germán Chaparro Molano , Juan Carlos Cuervo , Oscar Alberto Restrepo Gaitán , Sergio Torres Arzayús

We present an updated version of POLARIS, a well established code designated for dust polarisation and line radiative transfer (RT) in arbitrary astrophysical environments. We extend the already available capabilities with a synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Stefan Reissl , Robert Brauer , Ralf S. Klessen , Eric W. Pellegrini