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We present initial results from the Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM), analysing 22,817 Faraday Rotation Measures (RMs) with median uncertainties of 1.2 rad m^-2 across 1,520 square degrees to study magnetised gas…

Faraday rotation (RM) probes of magnetic fields in the universe are sensitive to cosmological and evolutionary effects as $z$ increases beyond $\sim $1 because of the scalings of electron density and magnetic fields, and the growth in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. P. Kronberg , M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly , M. B. Short , D. M. Higdon

Faraday rotation measure (RM) is arguably the most practical observational tracer of magnetic fields in the diffuse circumgalactic medium (CGM). We sample synthetic Faraday rotation skies of Milky Way-like galaxies in TNG50 of the…

We investigate the geometric distribution of gas metallicities in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around $47$, $z<0.7$ galaxies from the "Multiphase Galaxy Halos" Survey. Using a combination of quasar spectra from HST/COS and from…

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of extragalactic radio sources provide information on line-of-sight magnetic fields, including contributions from our Galaxy, source environments, and the intergalactic medium (IGM). Looking at differences in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 T. Vernstrom , B. Gaensler , L. Rudnick , H. Andernach

Absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) display a highly non-uniform distribution of lower ionization state species accompanied by more widespread higher ionization state material. This suggests that the CGM is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco , G. Mark Voit

We present a numerical approach to investigate the relationship between magnetic fields and Faraday rotation effects in clusters of galaxies. We can infer the structure and strength of intra-cluster magnetic fields by comparing our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa , R. Fanti , G. B. Taylor , K. Dolag

Measuring the properties of extragalactic magnetic fields through the effect of Faraday rotation provides a means to understand the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism. Here we use data from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) to…

We consider the possibility that cosmic magnetic field, instead of being uniformly distributed, is strongly correlated with the large scale structure of the universe. Then, the observed rotational measure of extra-galactic radio sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Peter L. Biermann

Both observations and modelling of magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar gas of spiral galaxies are well developed but the theory has been confronted with observations for only a handful of individual galaxies. There is now sufficient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

We present a new approach for extracting information about cosmic magnetic fields using cross-correlations between extragalactic Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogs and galaxy surveys. Specifically, we propose measuring the two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zekai Zhang , Adam Lidz

We study the Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) toward high Galactic latitudes. The RM arises from the global, regular component as well as from the turbulent, random component of the GMF. We model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , Jongsoo Kim , B. M. Gaensler

We present a sample of nine Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from which we derive magnetic field strengths of the host galaxies represented by normal, $z<0.5$ star-forming galaxies with stellar masses $M_* \approx 10^8 -10^{10.5} M_\odot$. We find…

We present gravitational-arc tomography of the cool-warm enriched circumgalactic medium (CGM) of an isolated galaxy (``G1'') at $z \approx 0.77$. Combining VLT/MUSE adaptive-optics and Magellan/MagE echelle spectroscopy we obtain…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of typical galaxies is crucial to our understanding of the cycling of gas into, through and out of galaxies. One way to probe the CGM is to study gas around galaxies detected via the absorption lines they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Celine Peroux , Nicolas Bouche , Varsha P. Kulkarni , Donald G. York

We search for magnetic fields outside galaxies and galaxy clusters by investigating redshift evolution of Faraday rotation measures (RM) of extragalactic radio sources. Our analysis reveals a strong evidence for the redshift dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-08 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , M. Banafsheh

We simulate the flux emitted from galaxy halos in order to quantify the brightness of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We use dedicated zoom-in cosmological simulations with the hydrodynamical Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES, which are…

Observations of Faraday rotation through high-redshift galaxies have revealed that they host coherent magnetic fields that are of comparable strengths to those observed in nearby galaxies. These fields could be generated by fluctuation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-13 Sharanya Sur , Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Context. Studies on compact galaxy groups have led to the conclusion that a plenitude of phenomena take place in between galaxies that form them. However, radio data on these objects are extremely scarce and not much is known concerning the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-12 B. Nikiel Wroczyński , M. Urbanik , M. Soida , R. Beck , D. J. Bomans