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We present a simplified model in which we suggest that two important galactic problems -the magnetic field configuration at large scales and the flat rotation curve- may be simultaneously explained. A highly convective disc produces a high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Battaner , H. Lesch , E. Florido

A good model of the Galactic magnetic field is crucial for estimating the Galactic contribution in dark matter and CMB-cosmology studies, determining the sources of UHECRs, and also modeling the transport of Galactic CRs since the halo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 Glennys R. Farrar , Nafiun Awal , Deepak Khurana , Michael Sutherland

We present a novel experiment with the capacity to independently measure both the electron density and the magnetic field of the solar corona. We achieve this through measurement of the excess Faraday rotation due to propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Ord , S. Johnston , J. Sarkissian

We present analytic solutions of Maxwell equations in the internal and external background spacetime of a slowly rotating magnetized neutron star. The star is considered isolated and in vacuum, with a dipolar magnetic field not aligned with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Rezzolla , B. J. Ahmedov , J. C. Miller

Pulsars provide unique probes for the {\it large-scale} interstellar magnetic field in the Galactic disk. The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey has discovered many distant pulsars which enables us for the first time to explore the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao , A. G. Lyne

We search for observational signatures of magnetic helicity in data from all-sky radio polarization surveys of the Milky Way Galaxy. Such a detection would help confirm the dynamo origin of the field and may provide new observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 J. L. West , R. N. Henriksen , K. Ferrière , A. Woodfinden , T. Jaffe , B. M. Gaensler , J. A. Irwin

A new model has been proposed for magnetic field determination at different distances from the Sun during different solar cycle phases. The model depends on the observed large-scale non-polar photospheric magnetic fields and that measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Irina A. Bilenko

Direct comparison between stellar and solar magnetic maps are hampered by their dramatic differences in resolution. Here, we present a method to filter out the small-scale component of vector fields, in such a way that comparison between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. A. Vidotto

Context: Cosmic-ray propagation is strongly dependent on the large-scale configuration of the Galactic magnetic field. In particular, the Galactic center (GC) region provides highly interesting cosmic-ray data from gamma-ray maps and it is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Katia Ferrière , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

We investigate the orientation of the photospheric magnetic fields in the solar polar region using observations from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). Inside small patches of significant polarization, the inferred magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Xudong Sun , Yang Liu , Ivan Milić , Ana Belén Griñón Marín

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…

We have determined 194 Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic radio sources using new, multi-channel polarization observations at frequencies around 1.4 GHz from the Very Large Array (VLA) in the Galactic plane at…

The magnetic field structure of the Milky Way can offer critical insights into the origin of galactic magnetic fields. Measurements of magnetic structures of the Milky Way are still sparse in far regions of the Galactic disk and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Jun Xu , J. L. Han , Weicong Jing , The SKA Pulsar Science Working Group

We introduce a method to quantify the quality-of-fit between data and observables depending on the large scale Galactic magnetic field. We combine WMAP5 polarized synchrotron data and Rotation Measures of extragalactic sources in a joint…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-22 Ronnie Jansson , Glennys R. Farrar , Andre H. Waelkens , Torsten A. Ensslin

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

We present detailed numerical calculations of the fast solar tachocline based on the assumption that the dynamo field dominates over the dynamics of the tachocline. In the present paper of the series, we focus on three shortfalls of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Forgacs-Dajka

The SKA and its precursors will open a new era in the observation of cosmic magnetic fields and help to understand their origin. In the SKADS polarization simulation project, maps of polarized intensity and RM of the Milky Way, galaxies and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-11 Rainer Beck

The series solution to Laplace's equation in a helical coordinate system is derived and refined using symmetry and chirality arguments. These functions and their more commonplace counterparts are used to model solenoidal magnetic fields via…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-10 Brian Pollack , Ryan Pellico , Cole Kampa , Henry Glass , Michael Schmitt

This paper investigates the magnetic fields produced by a three-coil system, focusing on how different mesh resolutions affect the accuracy of the results. Using both the Poisson solver, as well as a numerical approach based on the solution…

We develop a method to simulate galaxy-galaxy weak lensing by utilizing all-sky, light-cone simulations and their inherent halo catalogs. Using the mock catalog to study the error covariance matrix of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, we compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Masato Shirasaki , Masahiro Takada , Hironao Miyatake , Ryuichi Takahashi , Takashi Hamana , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ryoma Murata