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The Universe's magnetogenesis can be investigated with radio observations of cosmic filaments, where the information on the initial magnetic field seeds is expected to be preserved in time. In this work, we update the comparison between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ettore Carretti , Franco Vazza

We examine the proposal that the dispersion measures (DMs) and Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of extragalactic linearly-polarized fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to probe the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , B. M. Gaensler

Primordial magnetic fields could explain the large-scale magnetic fields present in the Universe. Inflation and phase transitions in the early Universe could give rise to such fields with unique characteristics. We investigate the…

Magnetic fields appear to be present in essentially all astrophysical environments, including galaxies, clusters of galaxies and voids. There are both observational and theoretical motives for considering the possibility of their origin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Karsten Jedamzik , Levon Pogosian

The measurement of magnetic fields in cosmic web filaments can be used to reveal the magnetogenesis of the Universe. In previous work, we produced first estimates of the field strength and its redshift evolution using the Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 E. Carretti , F. Vazza , S. P. O'Sullivan , V. Vacca , A. Bonafede , G. Heald , C. Horellou , S. Mtchedlidze , T. Vernstrom

The presence of ubiquitous magnetic fields in the universe is suggested from observations of radiation and cosmic ray from galaxies or the intergalactic medium (IGM). One possible origin of cosmic magnetic fields is the magnetogenesis in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 Teppei Minoda , Kenji Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

Rotation measure (RM) grids of extragalactic radio sources have been widely used for studying cosmic magnetism. But their potential for exploring the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of galaxies is unclear, since other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Akahori , B. M. Gaensler , Dongsu Ryu

Magnetic fields significantly influence the structure of galaxies' interstellar media, but our understanding of magnetic field strengths and structures in external galaxies is severely limited. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offers a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-30 Hilay Shah , Mark Krumholz , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

An analysis of structure in rotation measure (RM) across the sky based on the RM catalog of Taylor et al. (2009) is presented. Several resolved RM structures are identified with structure in the local ISM, including radio loops I, II, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor , C. Sunstrum

(Abridged) This paper introduces the formalism which connects between rotation measure ($\RM$) measurements for extragalactic sources and the cosmological magnetic field power spectrum. It is shown that the amplitude and shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tsafrir Kolatt

We investigate the possibility of measuring intergalactic magnetic fields using the dispersion measures and rotation measures of fast radio bursts. With Bayesian methods, we produce probability density functions for values of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Stefan Hackstein , Marcus Brüggen , Franco Vazza , Bryan Gaensler , Volker Heesen

Large scale primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) threading the intergalactic medium are observed ubiquitously in the Universe playing a key role in the cosmic evolution. Their origin is still debated constituting a very active field of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

We investigate the capability of ongoing radio telescopes for probing Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in the large-scale structure of the universe which is expected to be of order $O(1) {\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shinsuke Ideguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Takuya Akahori , Kohei Kumazaki , Dongsu Ryu

We study the constraints on primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) in light of the global 21-cm signal observed during the dark ages. Primordial magnetic fields can heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) via magnetohydrodynamic effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Vivekanand Mohapatra , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Alekha C. Nayak

The origin of large-scale magnetic fields is an unsolved problem in cosmology. In order to overcome, a possible scenario comes from the idea that these fields emerged from a small primordial magnetic field (PMF), produced in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Hector J. Hortua , Leonardo Castañeda

We made use of the two latest sets of Rotational Measures (RMs) of extra-galactic radio sources, namely the NRAO VLA Sky Survey otation Measures Catalogue, and a compilation by Kronberg&Newton-McGee(2011), to infer the global structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov , P. P. Kronberg , K. J. Newton-McGee

The aim of this thesis is to study the effects on the CMB anisotropy due to primordial magnetic fields and to analyze some favorable scenarios of magnetogenesis constrained by those signatures, including limits on the amplitude of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-12 Hector J. Hortua

The origin of the first magnetic fields in the Universe is a standing problem in cosmology. Intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) may be an untapped window to the primeval Universe, providing further constrains on magnetogenesis. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-07 Rafael Alves Batista , Andrey Saveliev

Recent cosmological data and astrophysical observations, such as the Hubble tension and the increasing preference from galaxy surveys for dynamical dark energy, have begun to challenge the standard $\Lambda$-cold dark matter cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Jonathan Schiff , Tejaswi Venumadhav

Magnetic fields are widely observed in the Universe in virtually all astrophysical objects, from individual stars to entire galaxies, even in the intergalactic medium, but their specific generation has long been debated. Due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier