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Observations of Faraday rotation through high-redshift galaxies have revealed that they host coherent magnetic fields that are of comparable strengths to those observed in nearby galaxies. These fields could be generated by fluctuation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-13 Sharanya Sur , Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

Synchrotron radiation from the interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy dominates the sky brightness at low radio frequencies, and carries information about relativistic and thermal electron distributions across a range of astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-18 Colin Lonsdale , Elena Orlando , Gregg Hallinan , Greg Taylor , Clive Dickinson

(abridged) A detailed examination of the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields between high cosmic temperatures and the present epoch is presented. A simple analytical model matching the results of the 3D MHD simulations allows for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robi Banerjee , Karsten Jedamzik

The existence of magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies is now well established through different methods of analysis. Magnetic fields are investigated in the radio band from studies of the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Federica Govoni , Luigina Feretti

We present a large suite of simulations of the formation of low-mass star clusters. Our simulations include an extensive set of physical processes -- magnetohydrodynamics, radiative transfer, and protostellar outflows -- and span a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Andrew J. Cunningham , Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein

Galactic magnetic fields are observed of order $\sim 10^{-6}G$, but their origin is not definitely known yet. In this paper we consider the primordial magnetic fields generated in the early universe and analyse their effects on the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Seoktae Koh , Chul H. Lee

Since synchrotron polarization fluctuations are related to the fundamental properties of the magnetic field, we propose the polarization intensity variance to measure the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) magnetization. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-26 Ning-Ning Guo , Jian-Fu Zhang , Hua-Ping Xiao , Jungyeon Cho , Xue-Juan Yang

We investigate the origin of the high Faraday rotation measures (RMs) found for polarized radio galaxies in clusters. The two most likely origins are, magnetic fields local to the source, or magnetic fields located in the foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Ensslin , C. Vogt , T. E. Clarke , G. B. Taylor

The dispersion measures (DMs) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) arise predominantly from free electrons in the large-scale structure of the Universe. The increasing number of FRB observations have started to empirically constrain the distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Ralf M. Konietzka , Liam Connor , Vadim A. Semenov , Angus Beane , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Radio observations have revealed magnetic fields in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters nearly in equipartition with turbulence. This suggests magnetic field amplification by dynamo processes. However, observations are limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 Yoan Rappaz , Jennifer Schober , Abhijit Bhausaheb Bendre , Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

In spite of decades of theoretical efforts, the physical origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is still debated. We aim at understanding the influence of various physical processes such as radiative stellar feedback, magnetic…

Recent spatially-resolved observations of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) have uncovered evidence for radial gradients of the stellar initial mass function (IMF), ranging from super-Salpeter IMFs in the centre to Milky Way-like beyond…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-06 Christopher Barber , Joop Schaye , Robert A. Crain

Observations of the Faraday rotation measure, combined with the dispersion measure, can be used to infer the magnetoionic environment of a radio source. We investigate the magnetoionic environments of FRBs by deriving their estimated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

The propagation trajectories of the highest energy cosmic rays (HECRs) are deflected by not only intergalactic magnetic field but also Galactic magnetic field (GMF). These magnetic fields can weaken the positive correlation between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

We investigate bounds on the strength of the primordial magnetic field (PMF) from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectra of the intensity (temperature) modes induced from the auto- and cross-correlated bispectra of the scalar and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 Maresuke Shiraishi , Daisuke Nitta , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The observed structure function (SF) of rotation measure (RM) varies as a broken power-law function of angular scales. The systematic shallowness of its spectral slope is inconsistent with the standard Kolmogorov scaling. This motivates us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-24 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

We examine the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at low redshift in a range of simulated Milky Way mass halos. The sample is comprised of seven idealized simulations, an adaptive mesh refinement cosmological zoom-in simulation,…

We explore some particle physics implications of the growing evidence for a helical primordial magnetic field (PMF). From the interactions of magnetic monopoles and the PMF, we derive an upper bound on the monopole number density, $n(t_0) <…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew J. Long , Tanmay Vachaspati

We present a new approach for extracting information about cosmic magnetic fields using cross-correlations between extragalactic Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogs and galaxy surveys. Specifically, we propose measuring the two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zekai Zhang , Adam Lidz