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Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. In the Milky Way, Faraday rotation of the polarized emission from pulsars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-24 R. Beck

(Abridged) The inner couple hundred pcs of our Galaxy is characterized by significant amount of synchrotron-emitting gas, which appears to co-exist with a large reservoir of molecular gas. The spatial correlation between fluorescent Fe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Muno , M. Wardle , D. C. Lis

We have combined determinations of the epoch-dependent star formation rate (SFR) function with relationships between SFR and radio (synchrotron and free-free) emission to work out detailed predictions for the counts and the redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-19 C. Mancuso , A. Lapi , Z-Y. Cai , M. Negrello , G. De Zotti , F. Perrotta , L. Danese

Synchrotron emission pervades the Galactic plane at low radio frequencies, originating from cosmic ray electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field. Using a low-frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we…

We calculate the flux of radio, hard X-ray and UV radiation from clusters of galaxies as produced by synchrotron emission and Inverse Compton Scattering of electrons generated as secondaries in cosmic ray interactions in the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 P. Blasi , S. Colafrancesco

Strong intergalactic shocks are a natural consequence of structure formation in the universe. These shocks are expected to deposit large fractions of their energy in relativistic electrons (xi_e~0.05 of the thermal energy according to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

Polarized Galactic synchrotron emission is an undesirable foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments observing at frequencies $< 150$ GHz. We perform a combined analysis of observational data at 1.4, 2.3, 23, 30 and 33 GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Janet L. Weiland , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Mark Halpern , Gary Hinshaw

One of the clearest signs of black hole activity is the presence of a compact radio core in the nuclei of galaxies. With the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) these cores can be used to study the evolution of black holes throughout the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Falcke , E. Koerding , N. M. Nagar

Understanding the role that magnetic fields play on the stage of galaxy formation requires accurate methods for inferring the properties of extragalactic magnetic fields. Radio synchrotron emission has been the most promising avenue to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-13 Tara Dacunha , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Susan E. Clark , Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

Diffuse synchrotron radio emission has been observed in a number of cool-core clusters on scales comparable to that of the cooling region. These radio sources are called `mini-halos'. In order to understand their origin, which is still…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Myriam Gitti , Gianfranco Brunetti , Rossella Cassano , Stefano Ettori

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 universal link between the processes of accretion and ejection leads to the formation of jets and outflows around accreting compact objects. Incoherent synchrotron emission from these outflows can be observed from a wide range of…

Our position inside the Galaxy requires all-sky surveys to reveal its large-scale properties. The zero-level calibration of all-sky surveys differs from standard 'relative' measurements, where a source is measured in respect to its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wolfgang Reich , Patricia Reich

The future new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Hundred and thousands polarized background sources can be measured towards nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 T. G. Arshakian , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , P. Frick , M. Krause

A multichannel analysis of cosmic ray electron and positron spectra and of the diffuse synchrotron emission of the Galaxy is performed by using the DRAGON code. This study is aimed at probing the interstellar electron source spectrum down…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

Synchrotron emission is an important process in Galactic dynamics and a potentially confusing foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observations. Though the mechanism of synchrotron emission is well understood, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George F. Smoot

The interpretation of Galactic synchrotron observations is complicated by the degeneracy between the strength of the magnetic field perpendicular to the line of sight (LOS), $B_\perp$, and the cosmic-ray electron (CRe) spectrum. Depending…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Marco Padovani , Andrea Bracco , Vibor Jelić , Daniele Galli , Elena Bellomi

Synchrotron emission is one of few observable tracers of galactic magnetic fields (\textbf{B}) and cosmic rays (CRs). Much of our understanding of \textbf{B} in galaxies comes from utilizing synchrotron observations in conjunction with…

We present a search for the synchrotron emission from the synchrotron cosmic web by cross correlating 180MHz radio images from the Murchison Widefield Array with tracers of large scale structure (LSS). We use two versions of the radio image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Tessa Vernstrom , Bryan M. Gaensler , Shea Brown , Emil Lenc , Ray P. Norris

The quiet Sun, i.e. in its non-flaring state or non-flaring regions, emits thermal radiation from radio to ultraviolet. The quiet Sun produces also non-thermal radiation observed in gamma rays due to interactions of Galactic Cosmic Rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Elena Orlando , Vahe' Petrosian , Andrew Strong