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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

Results are presented of a new VLA-ROSAT study that probes the magnetic field strength and distribution over a sample of 16 ``normal'' low redshift (z < 0.1) galaxy clusters. The clusters span two orders of magnitude in X-ray luminosity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. E. Clarke , P. P. Kronberg , H. Boehringer

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Polarization observations with the forthcoming large radio telescopes will open a new era in the observation of magnetic fields and…

Faraday tomography is thought to be a powerful tool to explore cosmic magnetic field. Broadband radio polarimetric data is essential to ensure the quality of Faraday tomography, but such data is not easy to obtain because of radio frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Takuya Akahori , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takahiro Aoki , Kazuhiro Takefuji , Hideki Ujihara , Keitaro Takahashi

We investigate the dependence of residual rotation measure (RRM) on intervening absorption systems at cosmic distances by using a large sample of 539 SDSS quasars in conjunction with the available rotation measure catalog at around 21cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ravi Joshi , Hum Chand

Radio quasar sightlines with strong MgII absorption lines display statistically enhanced Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) indicating the presence of additional magneto-active plasma with respect to sightlines free of such absorption. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly

We present a broadband spectro-polarimetric analysis of 1,565 polarized radio sources from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS-DR2) RM Grid catalogue. This study uses frequency-dependent Stokes Q and U spectra across the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Rudra Sinha , Abhik Ghosh

Previously derived Faraday rotation constraints on the volume-filling intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) have used analytic models that made a range of simplifying assumptions about magnetic field evolution in the intergalactic medium and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Andres Aramburo-Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Andrii Neronov , Anna Scaife , Anastasia Sokolenko

Preliminary VLBA polarisation results on 6 ``blazars'' from 6.5-cm to 7-mm are presented here. Observing at several different wavelengths, separated by short and long intervals, enabled reliable information about the magnetic (B) field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-02 Shane P. O'Sullivan , Denise C. Gabuzda

We present new 6 and 20 cm Very Large Array (VLA) observations of polarized continuum emission of roughly 0.5 square degrees of the Galactic center (GC) region. The 6 cm observations detect diffuse linearly-polarized emission throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 C. J. Law , M. A. Brentjens , G. Novak

Synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation at radio frequencies of 0.2-10 GHz are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of cosmic magnetic fields. The observational results are reviewed for spiral, barred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rainer Beck

Determining magnetic field properties in different environments of the cosmic large-scale structure as well as their evolution over redshift is a fundamental step toward uncovering the origin of cosmic magnetic fields. Radio observations…

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

We investigate whether the method of wavelet-based Faraday rotation measure (RM) Synthesis can help us to identify structures of regular and turbulent magnetic fields in extended magnetized objects, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Beck , P. Frick , R. Stepanov , D. Sokoloff

The line-of-sight magnetic field of galaxy clusters can be probed using Faraday rotation measure (RM) data. However, our understanding of cluster magnetism is limited due to the scarcity of polarized background radio sources, with most…

We present results of interferometric polarization observations of the recently discovered magnetar J1745-2900 in the vicinity of the Galactic center. The observations were made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) on 21 February…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 E. V. Kravchenko , W. D. Cotton , F. Yusef-Zadeh , Y. Y. Kovalev

We analyze the redshift evolution of the Rotation Measure (RM) in Taylor et al. (2009) dataset, which is based on NVSS radio data at 21 cm, and compare with results from our previous work (Kronberg et al. (2008), Bernet et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly

We study the effects of galaxy formation physics on the magnetization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using the IllustrisTNG simulations. We demonstrate that large-scale regions affected by the outflows from galaxies and clusters contain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andres Aramburo Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Anastasia Sokolenko

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…

Structures in the magnetoionic medium exist across a wide range of angular sizes owing to large-scale magnetic fields coherent over the Galactic spiral arms combined with small-scale fluctuations in the magnetic field and electron density…

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