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We identify velocity channel map intensities as a new way to trace magnetic fields in turbulent media. This work makes use of both of the modern theory of MHD turbulence predicting that the magnetic eddies are aligned with the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 A. Lazarian , Ka Ho Yuen

We suggest a two-dimensional wavelet devised to deduce the large-scale structure of a physical field (e.g., the Galactic magnetic field) from its integrals along straight paths from irregularly spaced data points to a fixed interior point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Stepanov , P. Frick , A. Shukurov , D. Sokoloff

The advancement of our understanding of MHD turbulence opens ways to develop new techniques to probe magnetic fields. In MHD turbulence, the velocity gradients are expected to be perpendicular to magnetic fields and this fact was used by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Ka Ho Yuen , A. Lazarian

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is the largest concentration of dense molecular gas in the Galaxy, the structure of which is shaped by the complex interplay between Galactic-scale dynamics and extreme physical conditions.…

We present a novel method to search for structures of coherently aligned patterns in ultra-high energy cosmic-ray arrival directions simultaneously across the entire sky. This method can be used to obtain information on the Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 Marcus Wirtz , Teresa Bister , Martin Erdmann

Magnetic fields in the intracluster medium (ICM) affect the structure and the evolution of galaxy clusters. However, their properties are largely unknown, and measuring magnetic fields in galaxy clusters is challenging, especially on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Yuan Li , Irina Zhuravleva , Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais

We propose a new method to compute magnetic surfaces that are parametrized in Boozer coordinates for vacuum magnetic fields. We also propose a measure for quasi-symmetry on the computed surfaces and use it to design coils that generate a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Andrew Giuliani , Florian Wechsung , Matt Landreman , Georg Stadler , Antoine Cerfon

Numerical methods for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in more than one space dimension must confront the challenge of controlling errors in the discrete divergence of the magnetic field. One approach that has been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Christiane Helzel , James A. Rossmanith , Bertram Taetz

Magnetic fields play a fundamental role in protostellar collapse and disk formation, yet direct measurements of magnetic field strength in deeply embedded protostellar envelopes remain difficult. We present a new method to estimate both the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yisheng Tu , Xiaoyuan Yang , Zhi-Yun Li

The structures and dynamics of the interstellar medium are governed by a combination of self-gravity, external gravity, and various sources of ordered and random motions on different spatial scales. This paper uses ALMA CO (3-2)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Liam M. Wang , Jiayi Sun , Yu-Hsuan Teng , Eric W. Koch , Sanghyuk Moon , Elias Oakes , Erik Rosolowsky

The strong alignment of small-scale turbulent Alfv\'enic motions with the direction of the magnetic field that percolates the small-scale eddies and imprints the direction of the magnetic field is a property that follows from the MHD theory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-20 Ka Wai Ho , Alex Lazarian

We describe a method to dispersively detect all three vector components of an external magnetic field using alkali atoms based on the Voigt effect. Our method relies on measuring the linear birefringence of the radio frequency dressed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Tadas Pyragius , Hans Marin Florez , Thomas Fernholz

A sensitive vector magnetometry with high spatial resolution is important for various practical applications, such as magnetocardiography, magnetoencephalography, explosive materials detection and many others. We propose a magnetometer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 D. O. Ignatyeva , G. A. Knyazev , A. N. Kalish , A. I. Chernov , V. I. Belotelov

In modern cosmology, many efforts have been put to detect primordial B-mode of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the gravitational waves generated during inflation. Considering the foreground dust contamination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Zekun Lu , A. Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

We report a technique of proton deflectometry which uses a grid and an in situ reference x-ray grid image for precise measurements of magnetic fields in high-energy density plasmas. A D$^3$He fusion implosion provides a bright point-source…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 C. L. Johnson , S. Malko , W. Fox , D. B. Schaeffer , G. Fiksel , P. J. Adrian , G. Sutcliffe , A. Birkel

We present first results from a multifrequency VLBA observations of 3C273 in 2003. The source was observed simultaneously at 5.0, 8.4, 15.3, 22.2, 43.2 and 86.2 GHz, and from this multifrequency data set, spectra of 16 emission features in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-02 T. Savolainen , K. Wiik , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski

Molecular gas is believed to be the fuel for star formation and nuclear activity in Seyfert galaxies. To explore the role of magnetic fields in funneling molecular gas into the nuclear region, measurements of the magnetic fields embedded in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian , Rainer Beck , Siyao Xu

First, we describe a general procedure to produce high quality vector magnetograms using the Imaging Vector Magnetograph (IVM) at Mees Solar Observatory. At the spatial resolution 2"x2", the Stokes Q,U,V uncertainty reaches 0.001-0.0005 in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jing Li , A. A. van Ballegooijen , Don Mickey

In this study, we apply the Velocity Gradient Technique (VGT) to the merging Centaurus galaxy. We compare gradient maps derived from the PHANGS-ALMA survey using CO emission lines with magnetic field tracings from dust polarization data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-07 Quynh Lan Nguyen , Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

We trace the peripheral magnetic field structure of Bok globule CB130, by estimating the linear polarization of its field stars in the R band. The magnetic field orientation sampled by these stars, aligned on average among themselves and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. Chakraborty , H. S. Das