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Using high-resolution data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey, we show that linear structure in Galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) correlates with the magnetic field orientation implied by Planck 353 GHz polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 S. E. Clark , J. Colin Hill , J. E. G. Peek , M. E. Putman , B. L. Babler

Diffuse cluster radio sources, in the form of radio halos and relics, reveal the presence of cosmic rays and magnetic fields in the intracluster medium (ICM). These cosmic rays are thought to be (re-)accelerated through ICM turbulence and…

Synchrotron radiation from the interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy dominates the sky brightness at low radio frequencies, and carries information about relativistic and thermal electron distributions across a range of astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-18 Colin Lonsdale , Elena Orlando , Gregg Hallinan , Greg Taylor , Clive Dickinson

A joint action of depth and bandwidth depolarization in the interstellar medium is considered using a model of N homogeneous synchrotron layers with Faraday rotation. The bandwidth depolarization can be used in multifrequency polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. N. Vinyajkin

With the operation of LOFAR, a great opportunity exists to shed light on a problemof some cosmological significance. Diffuse radio synchrotron emission not associated to any obvious discrete sources as well as Faraday rotation in clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Uli Klein , P. Papaderos

We describe a Faraday-rotation structure in the Interstellar Medium detected through polarimetric imaging at 1420 MHz from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The structure, at l=91.8, b=-2.5, has an extent of ~2 degree, within which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Uyaniker , T. L. Landecker

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are physically large radio sources that extend well beyond their host galaxy environment. Their polarization properties are affected by the poorly constrained magnetic field that permeates the intergalactic…

Faraday rotation of polarized emission from pulsars measured at radio frequencies provides a powerful tool to investigate the interstellar and interplanetary magnetic fields. However, besides being sensitive to the astrophysical media,…

We present deep polarimetric observations at 154 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), covering 625 deg^2 centered on RA=0 h, Dec=-27 deg. The sensitivity available in our deep observations allows an in-band, frequency-dependent…

Faraday rotation describes the change of the linear polarization angle of radiation passing through a magnetized plasma and it is quantified by the rotation measure (RM), which is related to the line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field component…

This study aims to characterise the polarized foreground emission in the ELAIS-N1 field and to address its possible implications for the extraction of the cosmological 21-cm signal from the Low-Frequency Array - Epoch of Reionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 V. Jelic , A. G. de Bruyn , M. Mevius , F. B. Abdalla , K. M. B. Asad , G. Bernardi , M. A. Brentjens , S. Bus , E. Chapman , B. Ciardi , S. Daiboo , E. R. Fernandez , A. Ghosh , G. Harker , H. Jensen , S. Kazemi , L. V. E. Koopmans , P. Labropoulos , O. Martinez-Rubi , G. Mellema , A. R. Offringa , V. N. Pandey , A. H. Patil , R. M. Thomas , H. K. Vedantham , V. Veligatla , S. Yatawatta , S. Zaroubi , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , I. M. Avruch , R. Beck , M. E. Bell , M. J. Bentum , P. Best , A. Bonafede , J. Bregman , F. Breitling , J. Broderick , W. N. Brouw , M. Bruggen , H. R. Butcher , J. E. Conway , F. de Gasperin , E. de Geus , A. Deller , R. -J. Dettmar , S. Duscha , J. Eisloffel , D. Engels , H. Falcke , R. A. Fallows , R. Fender , C. Ferrari , W. Frieswijk , M. A. Garrett , J. Griessmeier , A. W. Gunst , J. P. Hamaker , T. E. Hassall , M. Haverkorn , G. Heald , J. W. T. Hessels , M. Hoeft , J. Horandel , A. Horneffer , A. van der Horst , M. Iacobelli , E. Juette , A. Karastergiou , V. I. Kondratiev , M. Kramer , M. Kuniyoshi , G. Kuper , J. van Leeuwen , P. Maat , G. Mann , D. McKay-Bukowski , J. P. McKean , H. Munk , A. Nelles , M. J. Norden , H. Paas , M. Pandey-Pommier , G. Pietka , R. Pizzo , A. G. Polatidis , W. Reich , H. Rottgering , A. Rowlinson , A. M. M. Scaife , D. Schwarz , M. Serylak , O. Smirnov , M. Steinmetz , A. Stewart , M. Tagger , Y. Tang , C. Tasse , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , C. Toribio , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , R. J. van Weeren , R. A. M. J. Wijers , S. J. Wijnholds , O. Wucknitz , P. Zarka

The Galactic interstellar medium hosts a significant magnetic field, which can be probed through the synchrotron emission produced from its interaction with relativistic electrons. Linearly polarized synchrotron emission is generated…

The Galactic magnetic field (GMF) plays a role in many astrophysical processes and is a significant foreground to cosmological signals, such as the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), but is not yet well understood. Dispersion and Faraday rotation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 C. Sobey , the LOFAR , MWA collaborations

We present multi-frequency polarization observations of the diffuse radio synchrotron background modulated by Faraday rotation. No total intensity is observed, indicating that total intensity does not vary on scales below approximately a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

Relativistic electrons and magnetic fields permeate the intra-cluster medium (ICM) and manifest themselves as diffuse sources of synchrotron emission observable at radio wavelengths, namely radio halos and radio relics. Although there is…

We report on a comparison between 21 cm rotation measure (RM) and the optically-thin atomic hydrogen column density (N_HI) measured towards unresolved extragalactic sources in the Galactic plane of the northern sky. HI column densities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Tyler Foster , Roland Kothes , Joanne Brown

Faraday tomography of broadband radio polarization surveys enables us to study magnetic fields and their interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM). Such surveys include the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS), which covers the…

Regular magnetic field structures can be derived from the Faraday rotation measures (RM) of polarized background sources observable at 1.4 GHz with the SKA. At lower frequencies ($<250$ MHz) polarimetry of radio sources with the Low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck

Radio galaxies are linearly polarized -- an important property that allows us to infer the properties of the magnetic field of the source and its environment. However at low frequencies, Faraday rotation substantially depolarizes the…

Context. The HI distribution at high Galactic latitudes is found to be filamentary and closely related to the far infrared (FIR) in caustics with coherent velocity structures. These structures trace the orientation of the magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 P. M. W. Kalberla