English
Related papers

Related papers: Galactic interstellar filaments as probed by LOFAR…

200 papers

The full sky cosmic microwave background polarization field can be decomposed into `electric' and `magnetic' components. Working in harmonic space we construct magnetic variables that can be measured from observations over only a portion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor , Neil Turok

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…

Linear polarization of diffuse Galactic emission is a signature of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of our Galaxy. Observations at high frequencies are less affected by Faraday depolarization than those at lower frequencies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Xiao , J. L. Han , W. Reich , X. H. Sun , R. Wielebinski , P. Reich , H. Shi , O. Lochner

We report a correspondence between giant, polarized microwave structures emerging north from the Galactic plane near the Galactic center and a number of GeV gamma-ray features, including the eastern edge of the recently-discovered northern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-17 David I. Jones , Roland M. Crocker , Wolfgang Reich , Jürgen Ott , Felix A. Aharonian

We report the detection of polarized emission in the vicinity of the Galactic center for 158 positions within eight different pointings of the Hertz polarimeter operating on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. These pointings include…

We present for the first time a coherent model of the polarized Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emissions which are the main diffuse foreground for the measurement of the polarized power spectra of the CMB fluctuations with the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , J. Aumont , F. X. Désert , T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , M. Tristram , A. H. Waelkens , D. Santos

We discuss observations of the linearly polarized component of the diffuse galactic radio background. These observations, with an angular resolution of 4', were made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in 5 frequency bands…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

Very long baseline interferometric observations of the radio galaxy 3C 120 show a systematic presence of gradients in Faraday rotation and degree of polarization across and along the jet. These are revealed by the passage of multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-17 J. L. Gomez , I. Agudo , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , M. Roca-Sogorb

We present optical spectropolarimetric and imaging polarimetric observations of four high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) obtained with the 10-m Keck I telescope. A broad Mg II emission line is detected in the total and polarized flux…

Jellyfish galaxies, characterized by long filaments of stripped interstellar medium extending from their disks, are the prime laboratories to study the outcomes of ram pressure stripping. At radio wavelengths, they often show unilateral…

We present optical and near-infrared stellar polarization observations toward the dark filamentary clouds associated with IC5146. The data allow us to investigate the dust properties (this paper) and the magnetic field structure (Paper II).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Jia-Wei Wang , Shih-Ping Lai , C. Eswaraiah , Dan P. Clemens , Wen-Ping Chen , A. K. Pandey

Contamination due to foregrounds (Galactic and Extra-galactic), calibration errors and ionospheric effects pose major challenges in detection of the cosmic 21 cm signal in various Epoch of Reionization (EoR) experiments. We present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 B. K. Gehlot , L. V. E. Koopmans , A. G. de Bruyn , S. Zaroubi , M. A. Brentjens , K. M. B. Asad , M. Hatef , V. Jelic , M. Mevius , A. R. Offringa , V. N. Pandey , S. Yatawatta

Strong accretion shocks are expected to illuminate the warm-hot inter-galactic medium encompassed by the filaments of the cosmic web, through synchrotron radio emission. Given their high sensitivity, low-frequency large radio facilities may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nicola Locatelli , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Serena Banfi , Gianni Bernardi , Claudio Gheller , Andrea Botteon , Timothy Shimwell

Polarization observations of the Milky Way and many other spiral galaxies have found a close correspondence between the orientation of spiral arms and magnetic field lines on scales of hundreds of parsecs. This paper presents polarization…

The stages before the formation of stars in molecular clouds are poorly understood. Insights can be gained by studying the properties of quiescent clouds, such as their magnetic field structure. The plane-of-the-sky orientation of the field…

In this paper we present multifrequency VLA observations of the giant radio galaxy 3C 449, obtained with high sensitivity and resolution in total intensity and polarized flux. These images show the source morphology in great detail, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Feretti , R. Perley , G. Giovannini , H. Andernach

We show that it is possible to locate the few places on the body of an airplane, while it is flying through high clouds, from which broad-band, pulsed, radiation is emitted at Very High Frequency (VHF) radio frequencies. This serendipitous…

We present a study on rotation measure (RM) of the quasar 3C 273. This analysis aims to discern the magnetic field structure and its temporal evolution. The quasar 3C 273 is one of the most studied active galactic nuclei due to its high…

Cosmological simulations predict that an intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) pervades the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe. Measuring the IGMF is important to determine its origin (i.e. primordial or otherwise). Using data from…