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This paper portrays the method of UAV magnetometry survey data interpolation. The method accommodates the fact that this kind of data has a spatial distribution of the samples along a series of straight lines (similar to maritime tacks),…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-12-12 Igor Aleshin , Kirill Kholodkov , Ivan Malygin , Roman Shevchuk , Roman Sidorov

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

A diverse range of interpolation methods, including Kriging, spline/minimum curvature and radial basis function interpolation exist for interpolating spatially incomplete geoscientific data. Such methods use various spatial properties of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-23 Arya Kimiaghalam , Andrei Swidinsky , Mohammad Parsa

Much of the information about the magnetic field in the Milky Way and other galaxies comes from measurements which are path integrals, such as Faraday rotation and the polarization of synchrotron radiation of cosmic ray electrons. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-05 Steven R. Spangler

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) synthesis requires the recovery of the Faraday Dispersion Function (FDF) from measurements restricted to limited wavelength ranges, which is an ill-conditioned deconvolution problem. Here, we propose a novel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Andrecut

We have determined 194 Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic radio sources using new, multi-channel polarization observations at frequencies around 1.4 GHz from the Very Large Array (VLA) in the Galactic plane at…

Bounds on the amplitude of a scale-invariant stochastic primordial magnetic field (PMF) can be significantly improved by measurements of the Faraday Rotation (FR) of CMB polarization. The mode-coupling correlations induced by FR make it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Levon Pogosian

The dynamical state of star-forming molecular clouds cannot be understood without determining the structure and strength of their magnetic fields. Measurements of polarized far-infrared radiation from thermally aligned dust grains are used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Heitsch , E. G. Zweibel , M. -M. Mac Low , P. S. Li , M. L. Norman

Magnetic fields in large scale structure filaments beyond galaxy clusters remain poorly understood. Superclusters offer a unique setting to study these low density environments, where weak signals make detection challenging. The Faraday…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 G. V. Pignataro , S. P. O'Sullivan , A. Bonafede , G. Bernardi , F. Vazza , E. Carretti

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

We investigate the problem of probing the local spatial structure of the magnetic field of the interstellar medium using multi-frequency polarized maps of the synchrotron emission at radio wavelengths. We focus in this paper on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jerome Thiebaut , Simon Prunet , Christophe Pichon , Eric Thiébaut

In this paper, the accuracy of two mesh-free approximation approaches, the Gravity model and Radial Basis Function, are compared. The two schemes' convergence behaviors prove that RBF is faster and more accurate than the Gravity model. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Amirehsan Ghasemi , Kelvin J Msechu , Arash Ghasemi , Mbakisya A. Onyango , Ignatius Fomunung , Joseph Owino

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…

Strong singly-ionized magnesium (MgII) absorption lines in quasar spectra typically serve as a proxy for intervening galaxies along the line of sight. Previous studies have found a correlation between the number of these MgII absorbers and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-16 J. S. Farnes , S. P. O'Sullivan , M. E. Corrigan , B. M. Gaensler

Faraday tomography through broadband polarimetry can provide crucial information on magnetized astronomical objects, such as quasars, galaxies, or galaxy clusters. However, the limited wavelength coverage of the instruments requires that we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Suchetha Cooray , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takuya Akahori , Yoshimitsu Miyashita , Keitaro Takahashi

Faraday rotation is one of the most widely used observables to infer the strength and configuration of the magnetic field in the ionised gas of the Milky Way and nearby spiral galaxies. Here we compute synthetic Faraday rotation maps at…

A linear but global numerical model for the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in disk geometry is considered to estimate the instability parameters for galaxies. Similarity rules suggested by a local analysis are applied to reveal a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 L. L. Kitchatinov , G. Rüdiger

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

Reconstruction of the sky brightness measured by radio interferometers is typically achieved through gridding techniques, or histograms in spatial Fourier space. For Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) 21 cm power spectrum measurements, extreme…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Nichole Barry , Aman Chokshi

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