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Measurements from the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission 2 (ARCADE-2) reveal a strong radio background in the GHz frequency range. Since the cosmological 21-cm signal is measured relative to the background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sudipta Sikder , Rajesh Mondal , Rennan Barkana , Anastasia Fialkov

The weak-field approximation is one of the simplest models that allows us to relate the observed polarization induced by the Zeeman effect with the magnetic field vector present on the plasma of interest. It is usually applied for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Asensio Ramos

Our ability to extract the maximal amount of information from future observations at gigahertz frequencies depends on our ability to separate the underlying cosmic microwave background (CMB) from galactic and extragalactic foregrounds. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Jewell , C. R. Lawrence , S. Levin

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have emerged as one of the most dynamic areas of research in astronomy and cosmology. Despite increasing number of FRBs have been reported, the exact origin of FRBs remains elusive. Investigating the intrinsic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

We present a polarization catalog of 533 extragalactic radio sources with 2.3 GHz total intensity above 420 mJy from the S-band Polarization All Sky Survey, S-PASS, with corresponding 1.4 GHz polarization information from the NRAO VLA Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Mehdi Lamee , Lawrence Rudnick , Jamie S. Farnes , Ettore Carretti , B. M. Gaensler , Marijke Haverkorn , Sergio Poppi

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

Polarized synchrotron emission at meter to centimeter wavelengths provides an effective tracer of the Galactic magnetic field. Calculating Faraday depth, the most useful parameter for mapping the line-of-sight magnetic field, requires…

After nearly three decades of discovery, many exoplanetary systems have been studied and characterized in detail with one important exception: exoplanet magnetism. Although many surveys sought to detect magnetospheric radio emissions from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Matthew Route , Alex Wolszczan

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds can be of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The detection of an astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background with ground-based interferometers is expected in the near future.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Haowen Zhong , Bei Zhou , Luca Reali , Emanuele Berti , Vuk Mandic

In this work we address the problem of simultaneous multi-frequency detection of extragalactic point sources in maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background. We apply a new linear filtering technique, the so called `matched matrix filters', that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Herranz , M. Lopez-Caniego , J. L. Sanz , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo

Despite an intense theoretical and experimental effort over the past decade, observations of the extragalactic radio background at multiple frequencies below 10 GHz are not understood in terms of known radio sources, and may represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Maxim Pospelov , Joshua T. Ruderman

An understanding of cosmic magnetism requires converting the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources into the rest-frame in which the corresponding polarized emission or Faraday rotation is produced. Motivated by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-02 J. S. Farnes , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti

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

Magnetic fields play vital roles in intracluster media (ICMs), but estimating their strengths and distributions from observations is a major challenge. Faraday rotation measures (RMs) are widely applied to this task, so it is critical to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Andrew Johnson , Lawrence Rudnick , Thomas Jones , Peter Mendygral , Klaus Dolag

We used the Rotation Measure (RM) catalogue derived from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS DR2) at 144-MHz to measure the evolution with redshift of the extragalactic RM (RRM: Residual RM) and the polarization fraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 E. Carretti , V. Vacca , S. P. O'Sullivan , G. H. Heald , C. Horellou , H. J. A. Rottgering , A. M. M. Scaife , T. W. Shimwell , A. Shulevski , C. Stuardi , T. Vernstrom

We investigate the problem of probing the local spatial structure of the magnetic field of the interstellar medium using multi-frequency polarized maps of the synchrotron emission at radio wavelengths. We focus in this paper on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jerome Thiebaut , Simon Prunet , Christophe Pichon , Eric Thiébaut

When photons from distant galaxies and stars pass through our neighboring environment, the wavelengths of the photons would be shifted by our local gravitational potential. This local gravitational redshift effect can potentially have an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Haoting Xu , Zhiqi Huang , Na Zhang , Yundong Jiang

Faraday rotation is one of the most widely used observables to infer the strength and configuration of the magnetic field in the ionised gas of the Milky Way and nearby spiral galaxies. Here we compute synthetic Faraday rotation maps at…

In this paper intergalatic electromagnetic cascades are used as a probe of cosmic ray sources. This is achieved as follows. In extragalactic space cosmic rays initiate electromagnetic cascades in which gamma-ray and neutrino emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-01 Anna Uryson
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