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We present a novel method to search for structures of coherently aligned patterns in ultra-high energy cosmic-ray arrival directions simultaneously across the entire sky. This method can be used to obtain information on the Galactic…

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This paper revisits the problem of orientation estimation for rigid bodies through a novel framework based on scalar measurements. Unlike traditional vector-based methods, the proposed approach enables selective utilization of only the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hassan Alnahhal , Sifeddine Benahmed , Soulaimane Berkane , Tarel Hamel

Proton imaging is a powerful tool for probing electromagnetic fields in a plasma, providing a path-integrated map of the field topology. However, in cases where the field structure is highly inhomogeneous, inferring spatial properties of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Joseph Levesque , Carolyn Kuranz , Timothy Handy , Mario Manuel , Frederico Fiuza

We have performed systemmatic local linear stability analysis on a radially stratified infinite self-gravitating cylinder of rotating plasma under the influence of magnetic field. In order to render the system analytically tractable, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Shubhadeep Sadhukhan , Surajit Mondal , Sagar Chakraborty

Dust polarization observations are a powerful, practical tool to probe the geometry (and to some extent, the strength) of magnetic fields in star-forming regions. In particular, Planck polarization data have revealed the importance of…

Spaceborne gravity gradients are proposed in this paper to provide autonomous orbit determination capabilities for near Earth satellites. The gravity gradients contain useful position information which can be extracted by matching the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-13 Xiucong Sun , Pei Chen , Christophe Macabiau , Chao Han

We present simulations of collapsing filaments studying the impact of turbulence and magnetic field morphologies on their evolution and star formation properties. We vary the mass per unit length of the filaments as well as the orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 D. Seifried , S. Walch

New visible and K-band polarization measurements on stars surrounding molecular clouds in Orion A and stars in the BN vicinity are presented. Our results confirm that magnetic fields located inside the Orion A molecular clouds and in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Frédérick Poidevin , Pierre Bastien , Terry J. Jones

Different combinations of input parameters to filament identification algorithms, such as Disperse and FilFinder, produce numerous different output skeletons. The skeletons are a one pixel wide representation of the filamentary structure in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 C. -E. Green , M. R. Cunningham , J. R. Dawson , P. A. Jones , G. Novak , L. M. Fissel

The method of solar magnetic field calibration for the filter-based magnetograph is normally the linear calibration method under weak-field approximation that cannot generate the strong magnetic field region well due to the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Jingjing Guo , Xianyong Bai , Yuanyong Deng , Hui Liu , Jiaben Lin , Jiangtao Su , Xiao Yang , Kaifan Ji

We have performed Smoothed Particle Magneto-Hydrodynamics (SPMHD) calculations of colliding clouds to investigate the formation of massive stellar clusters, adopting a timestep criterion to prevent large divergence errors. We find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 C. L. Dobbs , J. Wurster

Context. HI filaments are closely related to dusty magnetized structures that are observable in the far infrared (FIR). Recently it was proposed that the coherence of oriented HI structures in velocity traces the line of sight magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 P. M. W. Kalberla , J. Kerp , U. Haud

We explore the structure of magnetic field lines in and around filaments in simulations of molecular clouds undergoing global, multi-scale gravitational collapse. In these simulations, filaments are not in a static equilibrium, but are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Gilberto C. Gomez , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Aviles

Fibre modal noise occurs in high spectral resolution, high signal-to-noise applications. It imposes fundamental limits on the photometric accuracy of state-of-the-art fibre-spectrograph systems. In order to maximize the performance of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 U. Lemke , J. Corbett , J. Allington-Smith , G. Murray

The accurate calculation of guided electromagnetic modes in optical nanofibres is critical for applications in nanophotonics, from quantum interfaces to vectorial light sensing. Standard textbook methods rely on solving a $4\times4$ matrix…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sebastian Golat , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

We develop a theory for filamentary molecular clouds including the effects of ordered magnetic fields, and external pressure. We first derive a form of the virial equation appropriate for filamentary clouds. By comparing with observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jason D. Fiege , Ralph E. Pudritz

The paper presents a reliable method using deep learning to recognize solar filaments in H-alpha full-disk solar images automatically. This method cannot only identify filaments accurately but also minimize the effects of noise points of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 GaoFei Zhu , GangHua Lin , DongGuang Wang , Suo Liu , Xiao Yang

Probing magnetic fields in self-gravitating molecular clouds are generally difficult even with the use of the polarimetry. Based on the properties of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and turbulent reconnection, Velocity Gradient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-01 Cheng-Han Hsieh , Yue Hu , Shih-Ping Lai , Ka Ho Yuen , Sheng-Yuan Liu , I-Ta Hsieh , Ka Wai Ho , Alex Lazarian

The continuous flow of gas and dark matter across scales in the cosmic web can generate correlated dynamical properties of haloes and filaments (and the magnetic fields they contain). With this work, we study the halo spin properties and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Serena Banfi , Franco Vazza , Claudio Gheller

This paper presents a new method to determine all components of the electric field gradient tensor and orientation of the hyperfine magnetic field axis in the absorber Cartesian frame for M\"ossbauer spectroscopy for nuclear transitions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 Krzysztof R. Szymański
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