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It is still unknown how magnetic field-generation mechanisms could operate in low-mass dwarf galaxies. Here, we present a detailed study of a nearby pure-disk dwarf galaxy NGC 2976. Unlike previously observed dwarf objects, this galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-06 R. T. Drzazga , K. T. Chyży , G. H. Heald , D. Elstner , J. S. Gallagher

Context. Observations of polarized radio emission show that large-scale (regular) magnetic fields in spiral galaxies are not axisymmetric, but generally stronger in interarm regions. In some nearby galaxies such as NGC 6946 they are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Moss , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , M. Krause , T. G. Arshakian

Using the linearly polarized intensity and polarization angle data at 3.6, 6.2 and 20 cm, we determine variations of Faraday rotation and depolarization across the nearby galaxy M33. A 3-D model of the regular magnetic field is fitted to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. Tabatabaei , M. Krause , A. Fletcher , R. Beck

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 made use of the two latest sets of Rotational Measures (RMs) of extra-galactic radio sources, namely the NRAO VLA Sky Survey otation Measures Catalogue, and a compilation by Kronberg&Newton-McGee(2011), to infer the global structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov , P. P. Kronberg , K. J. Newton-McGee

In this study, the detailed magnetic field structure of the dense protostellar core Barnard 335 (B335) was revealed based on near-infrared polarimetric observations of background stars to measure dichroically polarized light produced by…

Observational evidence for dynamo action in spiral galaxies is reviewed, and the capabilities of various theories in explaining the basic features of galactic magnetic fields are discussed. Mean-field dynamo models appear to be unique in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anvar Shukurov

Isotropic and anisotropic wavelet transforms are used to decompose the images of the spiral galaxy M83 in various tracers to quantify structures in a range of scales from 0.2 to 10 kpc. We used radio polarization observations at {\lambda}6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 P. Frick , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , A. Shukurov , M. Ehle , A. Lundgren

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

We have measured the Faraday rotation toward a large sample of polarized radio sources behind the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), to determine the structure of this galaxy's magnetic field. The magnetic field of the LMC consists of a coherent…

We have studied the polarization characteristics and Faraday rotation of the extragalactic radio source J17204$-$3554, that appears projected on the north lobe of the galactic H II region NGC 6334A. From observations made with the Very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 L. F. Rodriguez , Y. Gomez , D. Tafoya

We analyze formation of grand-design two-arm spiral structure in the nuclear regions of disk galaxies. Such morphology has been recently detected in a number of objects using high-resolution near-infrared observations. Motivated by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Englmaier , Isaac Shlosman

Strong, globally-organized magnetic fields are found for a small fraction of O, B, and A stars. At the same time, many theoretical and indirect observational studies suggested ubiquitous presence of weak localized magnetic fields at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Kochukhov , N. Sudnik

In several spiral galaxies that are observed face-on, large-scale ordered magnetic fields (the so-called magnetic arms) were found. One of the explanations was the action of the magnetic reconnection, which leads to a higher ordering of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 M. Wezgowiec , R. Beck , M. Hanasz , M. Soida , M. Ehle , R. -J. Dettmar , M. Urbanik

We present U,B,V,R,I imaging polarimetry of NGC 2100 and its surrounding environment, which comprise a part of the LMC 2 supershell. The morphology of the observed position angle distribution provides a tracer of the projected magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John P. Wisniewski , Karen S. Bjorkman , Antonio M. Magalhaes , Antonio Pereyra , ;

Many spiral galaxies host magnetic fields with energy densities comparable to those of the turbulent and thermal motions of their interstellar gas. However, quantitative comparison between magnetic field properties inferred from observation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 Rion Glenn Nazareth , Gayathri Santhosh , Luke Chamandy

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

Interstellar magnetic fields are strong: up to 25 muG in spiral arms and 40 muG in nuclear regions. In the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 the average magnetic energy density exceeds that of the thermal gas. Magnetic fields control the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rainer Beck

We study the large-scale magnetic field structure and its interplay with the gas dynamics in the Monoceros OB1 East molecular cloud. We combine observations of dust polarised emission from the Planck telescope and CO molecular line emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 D. Alina , J. Montillaud , Y. Hu , A. Lazarian , I. Ristorcelli , E. Abdikamalov , S. Sagynbayeva , M. Juvela , T. Liu , J. -S. Carrière

Using high-resolution data of the linearly polarized intensity and polarization angle at 3.6, 6.2, and 20 cm together with a 3-D model of the regular magnetic field, we study variations of the structure, strength, and energy density of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. Tabatabaei , M. Krause , R. Beck , A. Fletcher