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Faraday rotation of the polarization plane in magnetized thermal plasma provides one of the most efficient methods to deduce regular magnetic fields from radio astronomical observations. Since the Faraday rotation measure RM is proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rainer Beck , Anvar Shukurov , Dmitry Sokoloff , Richard Wielebinski

In recent years, several different strategies have emerged for evolving the magnetic field in numerical MHD. Some of these methods can be classified as divergence-cleaning schemes, where one evolves the magnetic field components just like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara , Jongsoo Kim

Divergences are quantities that measure discrepancy between two probability distributions and play an important role in various fields such as statistics and machine learning. Divergences are non-negative and are equal to zero if and only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Tomohiro Nishiyama

The observed structure function (SF) of rotation measure (RM) varies as a broken power-law function of angular scales. The systematic shallowness of its spectral slope is inconsistent with the standard Kolmogorov scaling. This motivates us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-24 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means are the three classical means famous in the literature. Another mean such as square-root mean is also known. In this paper, we have constructed divergence measures based on nonnegative differences…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Inder Jeet Taneja

Aims: To determine alpha effect and turbulent magnetic diffusivity for mean magnetic fields with profiles of different length scale from simulations of isotropic turbulence, and to relate these results to nonlocal formulations in which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-30 A. Brandenburg , K. -H. Rädler , M. Schrinner

We consider a linear ill-posed equation in the Hilbert space setting. Multiple independent unbiased measurements of the right hand side are available. A natural approach is to take the average of the measurements as an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Tim Jahn

Research on magnetic particles dispersed in a fluid medium, actuated by a rotating magnetic field, is becoming increasingly active for both lab-on-chip and bio-sensing applications. In this study, we experimentally investigate the behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-25 Abdelqader Zaben , Guntars Kitenbergs , Andrejs Cēbers

The divergences of both the length and time scales, at the magnetization- reversal transition in Ising model under a pulsed field, have been studied in the linearized limit of the mean field theory. Both length and time scales are shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. B. Stinchcombe , A. Misra , B K Chakrabarti

A linear transformation f(S) of configurational entropy with length scale dependent coefficients as a measure of spatial inhomogeneity is considered. When a final pattern is formed with periodically repeated initial arrangement of point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Garncarek , R. Piasecki

Faraday tomography is a novel method to probe 3-dimensional structure of magnetic fields of polarized radio sources. In this paper, we investigate Faraday dispersion function (FDF) of disk galaxies extending a simple analytic model of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Haruya Eguchi , Masaki Suzuki , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi

Lensless imaging methods that account for partial coherence have become very common in the past decade. However, there are no metrics in use for comparing partially coherent light fields, despite the widespread use of such metrics to…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-04 Abraham Levitan , Riccardo Comin

The aberrations induced by the sample and/or by the sample holder limit the resolution of optical microscopes. Wavefront correction can be achieved using a deformable mirror with wavefront sensorless optimization algorithms but, despite the…

Deep frequency modulation interferometry (DFMI) resolves phase ambiguity in absolute distance measurements by jointly estimating two length-encoding parameters: the coarse and unambiguous effective modulation depth ($m$), and the fine but…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Miguel Dovale-Álvarez

Rotation measure synthesis allows the estimation of Faraday dispersion via a Fourier transform and is the primary tool to probe cosmic magnetic fields. We show this can be considered mathematically equivalent to the one dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners have advanced significantly, with a growing use of highfield 3 T systems. This evolution gives rise to safety concerns for healthcare personnel working in proximity to MRI equipment. While…

A general divergence measure for monotonic functions is introduced. Its connections with the f-divergence for convex functions are explored. The main properties are pointed out.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sever Silvestru Dragomir

The configuration of the regular magnetic field in M31 is deduced from radio polarization observations at the wavelengths 6, 11 and 20 cm. By fitting the observed azimuthal distribution of polarization angles, we find that the regular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fletcher , E. M. Berkhuijsen , R. Beck , A. Shukurov

We present the research status of a deformable mirror made of a magnetic liquid whose surface is actuated by a triangular array of small current carrying coils. We demonstrate that the mirror can correct a 11 microns low order aberrated…