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In the past, different works based on numerical simulations have been presented to explain magnetic fields (MFs) in the large scale structure and within galaxy clusters. In this review, I will summarize the main findings obtained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Klaus Dolag

We present an algorithm to self-consistently generate mock weak gravitational lensing convergence fields and galaxy distributions in redshift space. We generate three-dimensional cosmic density fields that follow a log-normal distribution,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Ryu Makiya , Issha Kayo , Eiichiro Komatsu

CTA 102 is a blazar implying that its relativistic jet points towards Earth and emits synchrotron radiation produced by energetic particles gyrating in the magnetic field. This study aims to figure out the physical origins of radio flares…

3D-MHD numerical simulations of bipolar, hypersonic, weakly magnetized jets and synthetic synchrotron observations are presented to study the structure and evolution of magnetic fields in FR II radio sources. The magnetic field setup in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Martin Huarte-Espinosa , Martin Krause , Paul Alexander

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

The amplitude of the magnetic field near the Galactic Centre has been uncertain by two orders of magnitude for several decades. On a scale of approximately 100 pc fields of approximately 1000 microG have been reported, implying a magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-11 Roland M. Crocker , David Jones , Fulvio Melia , Jürgen Ott , Raymond J. Protheroe

The cosmic web contains a large fraction of the total gas mass in the universe but is difficult to detect at most wavelengths. Synchrotron emission from shock-accelerated electrons may offer the chance of imaging the cosmic web at radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 F. Vazza , C. Ferrari , M. Brüggen , A. Bonafede , C. Gheller , P. Wang

Recent spectropolarimetric observations suggest that young low-mass stars such as classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) possess relatively strong (~kG) magnetic field. This supports a scenario in which the final accretion onto the stellar surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ryuichi Kurosawa , M. M. Romanova

It is shown that the standard cosmological model predicts {\it ab initio} generation of large-scale but very small-amplitude cosmic magnetic fields at the epoch of recombination of the primeval plasma. Matter velocities dominated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

We take advantage of the wealth of rotation measures data contained in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey catalogue to derive new, statistically robust, upper limits on the strength of extragalactic magnetic fields. We simulate the extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 Maxim S. Pshirkov , Peter G. Tinyakov , Federico R. Urban

Isochronous mass spectrometry (IMS) in storage rings is a successful technique for accurate mass measurements of short-lived nuclides with relative precision of about $10^{-5}-10^{-7}$. Instabilities of the magnetic fields in storage rings…

Context. Magnetic fields are key to understand galaxy evolution, regulating stellar feedback and star formation in galaxies. Aims. We probe the origin of magnetic fields in late-type galaxies, measuring magnetic field strengths, exploring…

We improve on the model of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) from Jansson \& Farrar (2012), which was constrained using all-sky rotation measures of extragalactic sources and polarized and unpolarized synchrotron emission data from WMAP. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-14 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar

In this work, we study and quantify properties of strong-field small-scale convection and compare observed properties with those predicted by numerical simulations. We analyze spectropolarimetric 630.25 nm data from a unipolar ephemeral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Narayan , G. B. Scharmer

The spectral index of synchrotron emission is an important parameter in understanding the properties of cosmic ray electrons (CREs) and the interstellar medium (ISM). We determine the synchrotron spectral index ($\alpha_{\rm nt}$) of four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Aritra Basu , Rainer Beck , Philip Schmidt , Subhashis Roy

Accurately measuring magnetic fields is essential for magnetic-field sensitive experiments in fields like atomic, molecular, and optical physics, condensed matter experiments, and other areas. However, since many experiments are conducted…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-31 Ziting Chen , Kin To Wong , Bojeong Seo , Mingchen Huang , Mithilesh K. Parit , Haoting Zhen , Jensen Li , Gyu-Boong Jo

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

Due to the inevitable accumulation of the observed information in the direction of the line of sight, it is difficult to measure the local magnetic field of MHD turbulence. However, the correct understanding of the local magnetic field is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Jian-Fu Zhang , Ke Hu , Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian

We analyse the observational signatures of galactic magnetic fields that are self-consistently generated in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium through turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and differential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-06 Yann Carteret , Abhijit B. Bendre , Jennifer Schober

Cosmic ray (CR) transport and acceleration is determined by the properties of magnetic turbulence. Recent advances in MHD turbulence call for revisions in the paradigm of cosmic ray transport. We use the models of magnetohydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Huirong Yan