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Context: Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission from cosmic ray (CR) protons scattering off the gas in the intracluster and intergalactic medium (ICM and IGM) remains out of reach for current observations. Detecting this emission would provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Ludwig M. Böss , Ildar Khabibullin , Daniel Karner , Klaus Dolag , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Elena Hernandez-Martinez , Jenny G. Sorce

We set limits on the presence of the synchrotron cosmic web through the cross-correlation of the 2.3 GHz S-PASS survey with a model of the local cosmic web derived from constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The MHD simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. Brown , T. Vernstrom , E. Carretti , K. Dolag , B. M. Gaensler , L. Staveley-Smith , G. Bernardi , M. Haverkorn , M. Kesteven , S. Poppi

The detection of the diffuse gas component of the cosmic web remains a formidable challenge. In this work we study synchrotron emission from the cosmic web with simulated SKA1 observations, which can represent an fundamental probe of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-07 Franco Vazza , Chiara Ferrari , Annalisa Bonafede , Marcus Brüggen , Claudio Gheller , Robert Braun , Shea Brown

We explore the possibility of detecting radio emission in the \emph{cosmic web} by analyzing shock waves in the MareNostrum cosmological simulation. This requires a careful calibration of shock finding algorithms in Smoothed-Particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Pablo A. Araya-Melo , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Marcus Brueggen , Matthias Hoeft

We produce the first low to mid frequency radio simulation that incorporates both traditional extragalactic radio sources as well as synchrotron cosmic web emission. The FIlaments \& GAlactic RadiO (FIGARO) simulation includes ten unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-27 Torrance Hodgson , Franco Vazza , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Benjamin McKinley

We use the results from a constrained, cosmological MHD simulation of the Local Universe to predict the radio halo and the gamma-ray flux from the Coma cluster and compare it to current observations. The simulated magnetic field within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Donnert , K. Dolag , G. Brunetti , R. Cassano , A. Bonafede

The cosmic web contains a large fraction of the total gas mass in the universe but is difficult to detect at most wavelengths. Synchrotron emission from shock-accelerated electrons may offer the chance of imaging the cosmic web at radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 F. Vazza , C. Ferrari , M. Brüggen , A. Bonafede , C. Gheller , P. Wang

We present a search for the synchrotron emission from the synchrotron cosmic web by cross correlating 180MHz radio images from the Murchison Widefield Array with tracers of large scale structure (LSS). We use two versions of the radio image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Tessa Vernstrom , Bryan M. Gaensler , Shea Brown , Emil Lenc , Ray P. Norris

Radio bridges are diffuse synchrotron emission observed between merging galaxy clusters. Recent radio observations have reported both detections and non-detections of radio bridges between clusters. The detections imply the presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kosuke Nishiwaki , Gianfranco Brunetti , Franco Vazza , Claudio Gheller

Recently Vernstrom et al. (2021) claimed the first definitive detection of the synchrotron cosmic web, obtained by `stacking' hundreds of thousands of pairs of close-proximity clusters in low-frequency radio observations and looking for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-08 Torrance Hodgson , Franco Vazza , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Benjamin McKinley

The standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM) predicts the existence of the cosmic web: a distribution of matter into sheets and filaments connecting massive halos. However, observational evidence has been elusive due to the low surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Lydia M. Elias , Shy Genel , Amiel Sternberg , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Eli Visbal , Nicolas Bouché

We generate probabilistic predictions of the low-redshift ($z < 0.2$) synchrotron Cosmic Web for half of the Northern Sky. In particular, we predict the contribution to the specific intensity function at $\nu_\mathrm{obs} = 150\…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Martijn S. S. L. Oei , Reinout J. van Weeren , Franco Vazza , Florent Leclercq , Akshatha Gopinath , Huub J. A. Röttgering

Synchrotron emission is one of few observable tracers of galactic magnetic fields (\textbf{B}) and cosmic rays (CRs). Much of our understanding of \textbf{B} in galaxies comes from utilizing synchrotron observations in conjunction with…

We use models of spectrally resolved cosmic ray (CR) transport in TIGRESS MHD simulations of the local ISM to produce synthetic synchrotron emission and to test, on scales from a few kpc down to ~10 pc, the traditional estimate of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Nora B. Linzer , Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Eliot Quataert

We analyse observational signatures of magnetic fields for simulations of a Milky-Way like disc with supernova-driven interstellar turbulence and self-consistent chemical processes. In particular, we post-process two simulations data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-29 Yoan Rappaz , Jennifer Schober , Philipp Girichidis

Strong accretion shocks are expected to illuminate the warm-hot inter-galactic medium encompassed by the filaments of the cosmic web, through synchrotron radio emission. Given their high sensitivity, low-frequency large radio facilities may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nicola Locatelli , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Serena Banfi , Gianni Bernardi , Claudio Gheller , Andrea Botteon , Timothy Shimwell

Entering a new era of high-energy gamma-ray experiments, there is an exciting quest for the first detection of gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. To complement these observational efforts, we use high-resolution simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer

We investigate the possibility that radio halos of clusters of galaxies are caused by synchrotron emission of cosmic ray electrons (CRe), which were produced by cosmic ray protons (CRp) interacting hadronically with the intra-cluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Torsten A. Ensslin

Cosmic-ray (CR) leptons produce radio synchrotron radiation by gyrating in interstellar magnetic fields (B-field). Details of B-fields, CR electron distributions and propagation are still uncertain. We present developments in our modelling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-22 Elena Orlando , Andrew Strong

Most of the Universe's populations of low energy cosmic ray electrons in the energy range of 1-100 MeV still manage to elude from detection by our instruments, since their synchrotron emission is at too low frequencies. We investigate a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Torsten A. Ensslin , Rashid A. Sunyaev
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