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The detection of filaments in the cosmic web will be crucial to distinguish between the possible magnetogenesis scenarios and future large polarization surveys will be able to shed light on their magnetization level. In this work, we use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-29 Nicola Locatelli , Franco Vazza , Paola Domínguez-Fernández

We introduce a new cross-correlation method to detect and verify the astrophysical origin of Faraday Rotation (FR) in multiwavelength surveys. FR is well studied in radio astronomy from radio point sources but the $\lambda^{2}$ suppression…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 Matthew Kolopanis , Philip Mauskopf , Judd Bowman

We present a suite of models of the coherent magnetic field of the Galaxy (GMF) based on new divergence-free parametric functions describing the global structure of the field. The model parameters are fit to the latest full-sky Faraday…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar

We compare a set of contemporary Galactic magnetic field (GMF) models with polarized synchrotron observations from the S-PASS and C-BASS radio surveys and combine them to create a reconstructed 4.76~GHz full sky map. Pixels that potentially…

Faraday tomography through broadband polarimetry can provide crucial information on magnetized astronomical objects, such as quasars, galaxies, or galaxy clusters. However, the limited wavelength coverage of the instruments requires that we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Keitaro Takahashi

We investigate the potential of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) for measuring the magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies via Faraday rotation of background polarised sources. [...] We find that about 10 per cent of the sky is covered by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Krause , Paul Alexander , Rosie Bolton , Joern Geisbuesch , David A. Green , Julia Riley

In Paper I we present a new model for the Galactic distribution of free electrons. In this paper we describe the input data and methodology for determining the structure and parameters of the model. Tables of the input data are provided and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio

Structures in the magnetoionic medium exist across a wide range of angular sizes owing to large-scale magnetic fields coherent over the Galactic spiral arms combined with small-scale fluctuations in the magnetic field and electron density…

Interstellar magnetic fields play critical roles in many astrophysical processes. Yet despite their importance, our knowledge about magnetic fields in our Galaxy remains limited. For the field within the Milky Way, much of what we do know…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-15 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown

A new method for measuring the large-scale structure of the Galactic magnetic field is presented. The Galactic magnetic field has been probed through the Galactic disk with near-infrared starlight polarimetry, however the distance to each…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael D. Pavel

We determined Faraday rotation measures (RMs) towards 137 pulsars in the northern sky, using Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) observations at 110-190 MHz. This low-frequency RM catalogue, the largest to date, improves the precision of existing…

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. "Cosmic Magnetism" has been accepted as Key Science Project both for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR, under construction) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-30 Rainer Beck

Next-generation spectro-polarimetric broadband surveys will probe cosmic magnetic fields in unprecedented detail, using the magneto-optical effect known as Faraday rotation. However, non-parametric methods such as RMCLEAN can introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Bryan M. Gaensler

The cosmic vorticity field, an essential tracer of nonlinear structure formation, has remained observationally inaccessible because transverse galaxy motions are difficult to measure and analytic models struggle to capture shell-crossing.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ziyong Wu , Xu Xiao , Fuyu Dong , Juhan Kim , Yan-Chuan Cai , Yang Wang , Xi Kang , Le Zhang , Xin Wang , Xiao-Dong Li

The free-free absorption of low frequency radio waves by thermal electrons in the warm ionized medium of our Galaxy becomes very significant at $\lesssim 10$ MHz (ultralong-wavelength), and the absorption strength depends on the radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Yanping Cong , Bin Yue , Yidong Xu , Yuan Shi , Xuelei Chen

Following the detection of polarized diffuse Galactic emission in 1962 a number of surveys were undertaken at low frequencies in the following years resulting in important insights on the local magnetic field, polarization of the giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Reich

All-sky observations of the Milky Way show both Galactic and non-Galactic diffuse emission, for example from interstellar matter or the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The different emitters are partly superimposed in the measurements,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Sara Milosevic , Philipp Frank , Reimar H. Leike , Ancla Müller , Torsten A. Enßlin

We develop information field theory (IFT) as a means of Bayesian inference on spatially distributed signals, the information fields. A didactical approach is attempted. Starting from general considerations on the nature of measurements,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Torsten A. Ensslin , Mona Frommert , Francisco S. Kitaura

Synchrotron radiation from the interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy dominates the sky brightness at low radio frequencies, and carries information about relativistic and thermal electron distributions across a range of astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-18 Colin Lonsdale , Elena Orlando , Gregg Hallinan , Greg Taylor , Clive Dickinson

We present the first Faraday rotation measure (RM) grid study of an individual low-mass cluster -- the Fornax cluster -- which is presently undergoing a series of mergers. Exploiting commissioning data for the POlarisation Sky Survey of the…