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While there have been far fewer missions to the outer Solar System than to the inner Solar System, spacecraft destined for the giant planets have conducted a wide range of fundamental investigations, returning data that continues to reshape…

Magnetic fields are one of most concealed components of the universe. They are observed as part of the intergalactic medium and on galaxy cluster scales, however their origin and evolution is unclear. In this work we use the IllustrisTNG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-04 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Dante J. Paz , Volker Springel

We present a novel visualization application designed to explore the time-dependent development of magnetic fields of neutron stars. The strongest magnetic fields in the universe can be found within neutron stars, potentially playing a role…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Simon J. Lieb , William Cook , Jan Hombeck , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Kai Lawonn

The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large datasets. Here, I present {\it AstroBlend},…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-11 J. P. Naiman

Most of the baryonic matter in the Universe is permeated by magnetic fields which affect many, if not most, of astrophysical phenomena both, in compact sources and in diffuse gas. Recent years have been marked by a worldwide surge of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

A combination of observation, theory, modeling, and laboratory plasma experiments provides a multifaceted approach to develop a much greater understanding of how magnetic fields arise in galactic settings and how these magnetic fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-23 A. Lazarian , S. Boldyrev , C. Forest , J. Sarff , P. Terry

The magnetospheric emissions from extrasolar planets represent a science frontier for the next decade. All of the solar system giant planets and the Earth produce radio emissions as a result of interactions between their magnetic fields and…

Most of the visible matter in the Universe is in a plasma state, or more specifically is composed of ionized or partially ionized gas permeated by magnetic fields. Thanks to recent advances on the theory and detection of cosmic magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Vector fields are one of the fundamental parts of mathematics which are key for modelling many physics phenomena such as electromagnetic fields or fluid and gas flows. Fields found in nature often exhibit complex structures which can be…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-12-23 Piotr Nowakowski , Przemysław Rokita

This study introduces Pedophysics, an open-source Python package designed to facilitate solutions for users who work in the field of soil assessment using near-surface geophysical electromagnetic techniques. At the core of this software is…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Gaston Mendoza Veirana , Philippe De Smedt , Jeroen Verhegge , Wim Cornelis

An open source symbolic tool for vector fields analysis 'SymFields' is developed in Python. The SymFields module is constructed upon Python symbolic module sympy, which could only conduct scaler field analysis. With SymFields module, you…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Nan Chu

One of the most fundamental problems in physics has been to understand the nature of the mechanism that generates the geomagnetic field and the magnetic fields of other planets and satellites. For decades, the dynamo mechanism, thought to…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-09-27 J. Marvin Herndon

One of the possible mechanisms responsible for the panoply of shapes in planetary nebulae is the presence of magnetic fields that drive the ejection of ionized material during the proto-planetary nebula phase. Therefore, detecting magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Leone , R. L. M. Corradi , M. J. Martínez González , A. Asensio Ramos , R. Manso Sainz

Transiting exoplanet parameter estimation from time-series photometry and Doppler spectroscopy is fundamental to study planets' internal structures and compositions. Here we present the code pyaneti, a powerful and user-friendly software…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 O. Barragán , D. Gandolfi , G. Antoniciello

Future remote sensing of exoplanets will be enhanced by a thorough investigation of our solar system Ice Giants (Neptune-size planets). What can the configuration of the magnetic field tell us (remotely) about the interior, and what…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Abigail Rymer , Kathleen Mandt , Dana Hurley , Carey Lisse , Noam Izenberg , H. Todd Smith , Joseph Westlake , Emma Bunce , Christopher Arridge , Adam Masters , Mark Hofstadter , Amy Simon , Pontus Brandt , George Clark , Ian Cohen , Robert Allen , Sarah Vine , Kenneth Hansen , George Hospodarsky , William Kurth , Paul Romani , Laurent Lamy , Philippe Zarka , Hao Cao , Carol Paty , Matthew Hedman , Elias Roussos , Dale Cruikshank , William Farrell , Paul Fieseler , Andrew Coates , Roger Yelle , Christopher Parkinson , Burkhard Militzer , Denis Grodent , Peter Kollmann , Ralph McNutt , Nicolas André , Nathan Strange , Jason Barnes , Luke Dones , Tilmann Denk , Julie Rathbun , Jonathan Lunine , Ravi Desai , Corey Cochrane , Kunio M. Sayanagi , Frank Postberg , Robert Ebert , Thomas Hill , Ingo Mueller-Wodarg , Leonardo Regoli , Duane Pontius , Sabine Stanley , Thomas Greathouse , Joachim Saur , Essam Marouf , Jan Bergman , Chuck Higgins , Robert Johnson , Michelle Thomsen , Krista Soderlund , Xianzhe Jia , Robert Wilson , Jacob Englander , Jim Burch , Tom Nordheim , Cesare Grava , Kevin Baines , Lynnae Quick , Christopher Russell , Thomas Cravens , Baptiste Cecconi , Shahid Aslam , Veronica Bray , Katherine Garcia-Sage , John Richardson , John Clark , Sean Hsu , Richard Achterberg , Nick Sergis , Flora Paganelli , Sasha Kempf , Glenn Orton , Ganna Portyankina , Geraint Jones , Thanasis Economou , Timothy Livengood , Stamatios Krimigi , James Szalay , Catriona Jackman , Phillip Valek , Alain Lecacheux , Joshua Colwell , Jamie Jasinski , Federico Tosi , Ali Sulaiman , Marina Galand , Anna Kotova , Krishan Khurana , Margaret Kivelson , Darrell Strobel , Aikaterina Radiota , Paul Estrada , Stefano Livi , Abigail Azari , Japheth Yates , Frederic Allegrini , Marissa Vogt , Marianna Felici , Janet Luhmann , Gianrico Filacchione , Luke Moore

Magnetic fields on a range of scales play a large role in the ecosystems of galaxies, both in the galactic disk and in the extended layers of gas away from the plane. Observing magnetic field strength, structure and orientation is complex,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Marijke Haverkorn , Volker Heesen

A primordial magnetic field could be responsible for the observed magnetic fields of the galaxies. One possibility is that such a primordial field is generated at the electroweak phase transition because of the fluctuations in the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist

PetroFit is an open-source Python package, based on Astropy and Photutils, that can calculate Petrosian profiles and fit galaxy images. It offers end-to-end tools for making accurate photometric measurements, estimating morphological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-19 Robel Geda , Steven Crawford , Lucas R. Hunt , Matthew A. Bershady , Erik J. Tollerud , Solohery M. Randriamampandry

For more than a decade there has been a push in the planetary science community to support interoperable methods for accessing and working with geospatial data. Common geospatial data products for planetary research include image mosaics,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-09 Trent M. Hare , Angelo P. Rossi , Alessandro Frigeri , Chiara Marmo

Optical spectropolarimeters can be used to produce maps of the surface magnetic fields of stars and hence to determine how stellar magnetic fields vary with stellar mass, rotation rate, and evolutionary stage. In particular, we now can map…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. G. Gregory