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Radio quasar sightlines with strong MgII absorption lines display statistically enhanced Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) indicating the presence of additional magneto-active plasma with respect to sightlines free of such absorption. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly

The presence of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters has been well established in recent years, and their importance for the understanding of the physical processes at work in the Intra Cluster Medium has been recognized. Halo and relic…

Radio galaxies are linearly polarized -- an important property that allows us to infer the properties of the magnetic field of the source and its environment. However at low frequencies, Faraday rotation substantially depolarizes the…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will produce spectroscopic surveys of tens to hundreds of millions of HI galaxies, eventually covering 30,000 sq. deg. and reaching out to redshift z~2. The huge volumes probed by the SKA will allow for some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-25 Stefano Camera , Mario G. Santos , Roy Maartens

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

We present wideband polarimetric observations, obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), of the merging galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, which hosts one of the most complex known radio relic and halo systems. We use both…

An important area of study of cosmic magnetic fields is on the largest scales, those of clusters of galaxies. In the last decade it has become clear that the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in clusters of galaxies is magnetized and that magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Feretti , M. Johnston-Hollitt

In recent years, the use of tailed radio galaxies as environmental probes has gained momentum as a method for galaxy cluster detection, examining the dynamics of individual clusters, measuring the density and velocity flows in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-27 S. Dehghan , M. Johnston-Hollitt

We present the second data release (DR2) of Spectra and Polarisation in Cutouts of Extragalactic sources from RACS (SPICE-RACS). SPICE-RACS DR2 is derived from the third low-band epoch of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS-low3) and…

Synchrotron radio halos at the center of merging galaxy clusters provide the most spectacular and direct evidence of the presence of relativistic particles and magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium. The study of polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Govoni , M. Murgia , H. Xu , H. Li , M. L. Norman , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , V. Vacca

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Polarization observations with the forthcoming large radio telescopes will open a new era in the observation of magnetic fields and…

Polarization from active galactic nuclei is interpreted as a signpost of the role of magnetic fields in the launch and collimation of their relativistic radio jets. Here, we report the detection of a clear polarization signal from ALMA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 I. Marti-Vidal , S. Muller

We outline the case for a comprehensive wide and deep survey ultimately targeted at obtaining 21-cm HI line emission spectroscopic observations of more than a billion galaxies to redshift z=1.5 and greater over half the sky. This survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-05 Steven T. Myers , Filipe B. Abdalla , Chris Blake , Leon Koopmans , Joseph Lazio , Steve Rawlings

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

It is generally assumed that magnetic fields play an important role in the formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks. One way of observationally constraining magnetic fields is to measure polarized emission and absorption produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Stefan Heese , Sebastian Wolf

We present an overview of the theory of high-redshift star and X-ray source formation, and how they affect the 21-cm background. Primary focus is given to Lyman alpha pumping and X-ray heating mechanisms at cosmic dawn, opening a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-22 Kyungjin Ahn , Andrei Mesinger , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Xuelei Chen

Faraday tomography allows us to map diffuse polarized synchrotron emission from our Galaxy and use it to interpret the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). We have applied Faraday tomography to 60 observations from the LOFAR…

Radio continuum surveys have, in the past, been of restricted use in cosmology. Most studies have concentrated on cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background to detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, due to the large sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Matt J. Jarvis , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Michael L. Brown , Sam N. Lindsay , Alvise Raccanelli , Mario Santos , Dominik Schwarz

Magnetized plasmas traversed by linearly polarized light will reveal their presence by the frequency dependent Faraday rotation of the angle of polarization. The regions surrounding the black holes powering the jets in AGNs are expected to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-12 W. D. Cotton , E. Kravchenko , Y. Kovalev , E. Fomalont