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The scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in galaxy clusters induces polarization signals according to the quadrupole anisotropy in the photon distribution at the cluster location. This `remote quadrupole' derived from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Kento Sumiya , Guo-Chin Liu

The high- and low-frequency descriptions of the pre-decoupling plasma are deduced from the Vlasov-Landau treatment generalized to curved space-times and in the presence of the relativistic fluctuations of the geometry. It is demonstrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

The origin of magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies is still a matter of debate. Observations for intracluster magnetic fields over a wide range of redshifts are crucial to constrain possible scenarios for the origin and evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 J. Xu , J. L. Han

We present a detailed examination of the relationship between the magnetic field structures and the variations in Faraday Rotation across PKS1246-410, a radio source in the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, using data from Taylor, Fabian and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Rudnick , K. Blundell

We revisit the polarisation induced by Faraday rotation when Cosmic Microwave Background photons traverse magnetised plasma. We compute the secondary B-mode angular power spectrum from Faraday rotation due to magnetic fields in galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer

Faraday rotation induced B-modes can provide a distinctive signature of primordial magnetic fields because of their characteristic frequency dependence and because they are only weakly damped on small scales, allowing them to dominate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Levon Pogosian , Amit P. S. Yadav , Yi-Fung Ng , Tanmay Vachaspati

We present a correlation between X-ray surface brightness and Faraday rotation measure in galaxy clusters, both, from radio and X-ray observations as well as from modeling of the intra-cluster medium. The observed correlation rules out a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Dolag , S. Schindler , F. Govoni , L. Feretti

The primordial anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are linearly polarized via Compton-scattering. The Faraday conversion process during the propagation of polarized CMB photons through regions of the large-scale structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-05 Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. The total intensity traces the strength and distribution of total magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

The S-Z effect and Faraday rotation from halos are examined over a wide mass range, an including gas condensation and magnetic field evolution. Contributions to the CMB angular power spectrum are evaluated for galaxy clusters, galaxy groups…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Joseph Silk , Mathieu Langer , Naoshi Sugiyama

Polarimetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents one of the possible diagnostics aimed at testing large-scale magnetism at the epoch of the photon decoupling. The propagation of electromagnetic disturbances in a magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

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

During structure formation, energetic events and random motions of the hot gas residing inside galaxy clusters (the intracluster medium, ICM) generate turbulent motions. Radio diffuse emission probes the presence of magnetic fields and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-12 M. S. Nakwacki , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , R. Santos de Lima

In this paper, I investigate a local effect of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in clusters of galaxies, due to the Thomson scattering of the anisotropic radiation. A local anisotropy of the CMB is produced by some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marina Gibilisco

We investigate the possibility for the SKA to detect and study the magnetic fields in galaxy clusters and in the less dense environments surrounding them using Faraday Rotation Measures. To this end, we produce 3-dimensional magnetic field…

A primordial cosmological magnetic field induces Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background polarization. This rotation produces a curl-type polarization component even when the unrotated polarization possesses only gradient-type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arthur Kosowsky , Tina Kahniashvili , George Lavrelashvili , Bharat Ratra

We investigate the magnetic field power spectrum in the cool core galaxy cluster A2199 by analyzing the polarized emission of the central radio source 3C338. The polarized radiation from the radio emitting plasma is modified by the Faraday…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Vacca , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , R. A. Perley , G. B. Taylor

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe, including galaxy clusters, and affect the thermodynamical properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that seed magnetic fields are amplified up to the $\mu$G-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 A. Pagliotta , C. J. Riseley , A. Bonafede , C. Stuardi , F. Loi

Context. The existence of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is largely unconstrained. Their detection is important as magnetic fields can have a significant impact on the evolution of the CGM and, in turn, the fields can…

We compute the spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization induced by non-linear effects in the Compton interactions between CMB photons and cold intergalactic electrons. This signal is of the $y$-type and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sebastien Renaux-Petel , Christian Fidler , Cyril Pitrou , Guido W. Pettinari