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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

Context: Fast Radio Bursts are transient radio pulses from presumably compact stellar sources of extragalactic origin. With new telescopes detecting multiple events per day, statistical methods are required in order to interpret…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Stefan Hackstein , Marcus Brüggen , Franco Vazza , Luiz F. S. Rodrigues

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

Strong accretion shocks are expected to illuminate the warm-hot inter-galactic medium encompassed by the filaments of the cosmic web, through synchrotron radio emission. Given their high sensitivity, low-frequency large radio facilities may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Nicola Locatelli , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Serena Banfi , Gianni Bernardi , Claudio Gheller , Andrea Botteon , Timothy Shimwell

Astrophysical processes can contribute to magnetic fields within cosmic voids either through magnetized outflows from the astrophysical large-scale structure or through superposition of dipolar contributions from individual galaxies. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Károly Seller , Günter Sigl

Measuring the properties of extragalactic magnetic fields through the effect of Faraday rotation provides a means to understand the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism. Here we use data from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) to…

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…

Outflows from quasars inevitably pollute the intergalactic medium (IGM) with magnetic fields. The short-lived activity of a quasar leaves behind an expanding magnetized bubble in the IGM. We model the expansion of the remnant quasar bubbles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven Furlanetto , Abraham Loeb

High energy photons from blazars can initiate electromagnetic pair cascades interacting with the extragalactic photon background. The charged component of such cascades is deflected and delayed by extragalactic magnetic fields (EGMF),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-23 K. Dolag , M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , R. Tomas

We investigate the Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) through the cosmic web up to cosmological distances, using a model IGMF based on turbulence dynamo in the large-scale structure of the universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu

Primary very high energy $\gamma$-rays from $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) are partially absorbed on extragalactic background light (EBL) photons with subsequent formation of intergalactic electromagnetic cascades. Characteristics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 T. A. Dzhatdoev , E. I. Podlesnyi , I. A. Vaiman

We estimate the magnetic field in the jets of the recently discovered 7 Mpc long Porphyrion system. We use non-detection of the system in gamma-rays to derive a lower bound on the co-moving magnetic field strength at the level of ~10 nG.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-09 A. Neronov , F. Vazza , A. Brandenburg , C. Caprini

Large scale strong magnetic fields in galaxies are generally thought to have been generated by a mean field dynamo. In order to have generated the fields observed, the dynamo would have had to have operated for a sufficiently long period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kandus , R. Opher , S. R. M. Barros

We study the effect of inhomogeneities in the matter distribution of the universe on the Faraday rotation of light from distant QSOs and derive new limits on the cosmological magnetic field. The matter distribution in the Universe is far…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pasquale Blasi , Scott Burles , Angela V. Olinto

Probing magnetic fields in high-redshift galactic systems is crucial to investigate galactic dynamics and evolution. Utilizing the rotation measure of the background quasars, we have developed a radial profile of the magnetic field in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Shivam Burman , Paras Sharma , Sunil Malik , Suprit Singh

Magnetic fields are observed beyond the peripheries of optically detected galactic discs, while numerical models of their origin and the typical magnitudes are still absent. Previously, studies of galactic dynamo have avoided considering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 E. Mikhailov , A. Kasparova , D. Moss , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , A. Zasov

Context. The imaging and timing properties of {\gamma}-ray emission from electromagnetic cascades initiated by very-high-energy (VHE) {\gamma}-rays in the intergalactic medium depend on the strength B and correlation length {\lambda}B of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Neronov , A. M. Taylor , C. Tchernin , Ie. Vovk

We show that the relatively strong magnetic fields ($\ge 1 \mu$G) in high redshift objects can be explained by the combined action of an evolving protogalactic fluctuation and electrodynamic processes providing the magnetic seed fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Lesch , Masashi Chiba

Magnetic fields are expected to permeate the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies, yet direct constraints at high redshift remain limited by the lack of high-quality Faraday rotation measure (RM) data. Using the RMs from SPICE-RACS DR2…

Interstellar magnetic fields play critical roles in many astrophysical processes. Yet despite their importance, our knowledge about magnetic fields in our Galaxy remains limited. For the field within the Milky Way, much of what we do know…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-15 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown
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