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We present integrated polarization properties of nearby spiral galaxies at 4.8 GHz, and models for the integrated polarization of spiral galaxy disks as a function of inclination. Spiral galaxies in our sample have observed integrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jeroen M. Stil , Marita Krause , Rainer Beck , A. Russell Taylor

Galaxy formation theories predict that galaxy shapes and angular momenta have non-random alignments with the cosmic web. This leads to so-called intrinsic alignment between pairs of galaxies, which is important to quantify as a nuisance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Benjamin Zhang , Khee-Gan Lee , Alex Krolewski , Jingjing Shi , Benjamin Horowitz , Robin Kooistra

We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

Observational study of galactic magnetic fields is limited by projected observables. Comparison with numerical simulations is helpful to understand the real structures, and observational visualization of numerical data is an important task.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Mami Machida , Takuya Akahori , Kenji Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Marijke Haverkorn

A sample of large northern Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) galaxies has recently been observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). We present observations of the linearly polarized radio continuum emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Heald , R. Braun , R. Edmonds

A sample of large northern Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) galaxies was recently observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 1300-1760 MHz. In Paper II of this series, we described sensitive observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert Braun , George Heald , Rainer Beck

We propose a novel statistical method to measure cosmic birefringence and demonstrate its power in probing parity violation due to axions. Exploiting an empirical correlation between the integrated radio polarization direction of a spiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Weichen Winston Yin , Liang Dai , Junwu Huang , Lingyuan Ji , Simone Ferraro

Using infrared data from the Herschel Space Observatory and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) 3 GHz observations in the COSMOS field, we investigate the redshift evolution of the infrared-radio correlation (IRRC) for star-forming…

We present measurements of the intrinsic alignments (IAs) of the star-forming gas of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. Radio continuum imaging of this gas enables cosmic shear measurements complementary to optical surveys. We measure the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Alexander D. Hill , Robert A. Crain , Ian G. McCarthy , Shaun T. Brown

The integral polarization of spiral galaxies in the radio band has been proposed as a new tracer of the intrinsic galaxy shape that augments lensing shear measurements. We revisit the method of shear estimation in this context. We introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Liang Dai , Junwu Huang , Weichen Winston Yin , Rui Zhou , Simone Ferraro

We study the properties of star-forming galaxies selected at 610 MHz with the GMRT in a survey covering $\sim$1.86 deg$^2$ down to a noise of $\sim$7.1\,$\mu$Jy / beam. These were identified by combining multiple classification diagnostics:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 E. F. Ocran , A. R. Taylor , M. Vaccari , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , I. Prandoni , M. Prescott , C. Mancuso

External galaxies often intervene in front of background radio sources such as quasars and radio galaxies. Linear polarization of the background emission is depolarized by Faraday rotation of inhomogeneous magnetized plasma of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-18 Rikuto Omae , Takuya Akahori , Mami Machida

We use the observed polarisation properties of a sample of 26 powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars to constrain the conditions in the Faraday screens local to the sources. We adopt the cosmological redshift, low-frequency radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Goodlet , C. R. Kaiser

With the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), multi-frequency polarimetric images were taken of the diffuse radio synchrotron background in a region centered on (l,b) = (161,16). The observations were done simultaneously in 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert , Ger de Bruyn

We describe a recent full-polarization radio continuum survey, performed using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), of several nearby galaxies in the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) sample. The WSRT-SINGS survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-23 G. Heald , R. Braun

We present a polarization catalog of 533 extragalactic radio sources with 2.3 GHz total intensity above 420 mJy from the S-band Polarization All Sky Survey, S-PASS, with corresponding 1.4 GHz polarization information from the NRAO VLA Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Mehdi Lamee , Lawrence Rudnick , Jamie S. Farnes , Ettore Carretti , B. M. Gaensler , Marijke Haverkorn , Sergio Poppi

Using deep observations across three of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields, this work measures the angular clustering of star forming galaxies (SFGs) and low-excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) to $z$$\lesssim$1.5 for faint sources,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 C. L. Hale , P. N. Best , K. J. Duncan , R. Kondapally , M. J. Jarvis , M. Magliocchetti , H. J. A. Röttgering , D. J. Schwarz , D. J. B. Smith , J. Zheng

We present the 3-{\it dimensional} intrinsic alignment power spectra between the projected 2d galaxy shape/spin and the 3d tidal field across $0.1<k/h{\rm Mpc}^{-1}<60$ using cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, Illustris-TNG300, at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Jingjing Shi , Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada , Ken Osato , Yosuke Kobayashi , Takahiro Nishimichi

Quantifying how the baryonic matter traces the underlying dark matter distribution is key to both understanding galaxy formation and our ability to constrain the cosmological model. Using the cross-correlation function of radio and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. N. Lindsay , M. J. Jarvis , K. McAlpine

The bending of radio galaxies in galaxy clusters is expected to be caused by interactions with the local environment. The physical processes responsible for jet bending, and their influence on the polarization properties of radio galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 S. Vanderwoude , E. Osinga , B. M. Gaensler , J. L. West , R. J. van Weeren
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