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Magnetic fields are amplified as a consequence of galaxy formation and turbulence-driven dynamos. Galaxy mergers can potentially amplify the magnetic fields from their progenitors, making the magnetic fields dynamically important. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-05 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest grand-design spiral galaxy. Thus far most studies in the radio regime concentrated on the 10 kpc ring. The central region of M31 has significantly different properties than the outer parts: The star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 René Gießübel , Rainer Beck

The origin of large-scale magnetic fields, detected in some low-mass (dwarf and irregular) galaxies via polarised synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation, remained unexplained for a long time. We suggest that mean-field dynamo can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Prasanta Bera , Anvar Shukurov , Kandaswamy Subramanian

(Abridged) We use new multi-wavelength radio observations, made with the VLA and Effelsberg telescopes, to study the magnetic field of the nearby galaxy M51 on scales from $200\pc$ to several $\kpc$. Interferometric and single dish data are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Fletcher , R. Beck , A. Shukurov , E. M. Berkhuijsen , C. Horellou

The origin of asymmetric radio polarized emission and properties of magnetic fields in the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC4254 are investigated with help of "magnetic maps" presenting distributions of different magnetic field components over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Krzysztof T. Chyzy

Magnetic fields have been observed in galaxy clusters with strengths of the order of $\sim \mu$G. The non-thermal pressure exerted by magnetic fields also contributes to the total pressure in galaxy clusters and can in turn affect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Sandhya Jagannathan , Sunil Malik , Deepak Jain , T. R. Seshadri

Radio continuum observations of barred galaxies revealed strong magnetic fields of >= 50-100 muG in the circumnuclear starbursts. Such fields are dynamically important and give rise to magnetic stress that causes inflow of gas towards the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Rainer Beck

The magnetic field strengths of most millisecond pulsars(MSP) are about $10^{8-9}$ Gauss. The accretion induced magnetic field evolution scenario here concludes that the field decay is invesely related to the accreted mass and the minimum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chengmin Zhang

The forthcoming new-generation radio telescope SKA (Square Kilometre Array) and its precursors will provide a rapidly growing number of polarized radio sources. Our analysis aims on what can be learned from these sources concerning the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodion Stepanov , Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Peter Frick , Marita Krause

Magnetic fields in galaxy halos are in general very difficult to observe. Most recently, the CHANG-ES collaboration (Continuum HAlos in Nearby Galaxies - an EVLA Survey) investigated in detail the radio halos of 35 nearby edge-on spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Ioannis Myserlis , Ioannis Contopoulos

While surface fields have been measured for stars across the HR diagram, internal magnetic fields remain largely unknown. The recent seismic detection of magnetic fields in the cores of several Kepler red giants has opened a new avenue to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Gang Li , Sébastien Deheuvels , Tanda Li , Jérôme Ballot , François Lignières

Magnetic fields in nearby, star-forming galaxies reveal both large-scale patterns and small-scale structures. A large-scale field reversal may exist in the Milky Way but no such reversals have been observed so far in external galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 David Moss , Rodion Stepanov , Tigran Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Dmitri Sokoloff

We present a Bayesian maximum likelihood analysis of Faraday rotation measure (RM) maps of extended radio sources to determine magnetic field power spectra in clusters of galaxies. Using this approach, it is possible to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Corina Vogt , Torsten A. Ensslin

We observed total and polarized radio continuum emission from the spiral galaxy M 101 at 6.2 cm and 11.1 cm wavelengths with the Effelsberg telescope. We use these data to study various emission components in M 101 and properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-30 E. M. Berkhuijsen , M. Urbanik , R. Beck , J. L. Han

The Earth's magnetic field can be decomposed into spherical harmonics, and the exact coefficients of the decomposition can be determined through a few measurements of its value at different locations. Using measurements from a magnetometer…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Nuno Barros e Sá , Lourenço Faria , Bernardo Alves , Miguel Cymbron

We have examined the global structure of the solar magnetic field using data from the FeI spectral line at {\lambda}5250.2{\AA} obtained at the 150-foot tower telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory (MWO). For each point on the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roger K. Ulrich , Tham Tran

We present new 6 and 20 cm Very Large Array (VLA) observations of polarized continuum emission of roughly 0.5 square degrees of the Galactic center (GC) region. The 6 cm observations detect diffuse linearly-polarized emission throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 C. J. Law , M. A. Brentjens , G. Novak

The origin and growth of magnetic fields in galaxies is still something of an enigma. It is generally assumed that seed fields are amplified over time through the dynamo effect, but there are few constraints on the timescale. It has…

The effect of magnetic fields on the frequencies of toroidal oscillations of neutron stars is derived to lowest order. Interpreting the fine structure in the QPO power spectrum of magnetars following giant flares reported by Strohmayer and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-17 R. Shaisultanov , D. Eichler

Correlation analysis is obtained among Faraday rotation measure, HI column density, thermal and synchrotron radio brightness using archival all-sky maps of the Galaxy. A method is presented to calculate the magnetic strength and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-29 Y. Sofue , H. Nakanishi , K. Ichiki