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We consider propagation of polarization in the inner parts of pair-symmetric magnetar winds, close to the light cylinder. Pair plasmas in magnetic field is birefringent, a $\propto B^2$ effect. As a result, such plasmas work as phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Maxim Lyutikov

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

To explore the spatial variations of the regular (mean) magnetic field of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), we use Fourier analysis in azimuthal angle along four rings in the galaxy's plane. The Fourier coefficients give a quantitative measure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Indrajit Paul , R. Vasanth Kashyap , Tuhin Ghosh , Rainer Beck , Luke Chamandy , Srijita Sinha , Anvar Shukurov

Much of the information about the magnetic field in the Milky Way and other galaxies comes from measurements which are path integrals, such as Faraday rotation and the polarization of synchrotron radiation of cosmic ray electrons. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-05 Steven R. Spangler

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

Faraday tomography is thought to be a powerful tool to explore cosmic magnetic field. Broadband radio polarimetric data is essential to ensure the quality of Faraday tomography, but such data is not easy to obtain because of radio frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Takuya Akahori , Shinsuke Ideguchi , Takahiro Aoki , Kazuhiro Takefuji , Hideki Ujihara , Keitaro Takahashi

The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations of relatively distant southern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , G. J. Qiao , W. van Straten

Context: Faraday rotation measurements of extragalactic radio sources during coronal occultation allow assessment of both the electron density distribution and the three-dimensional magnetic field topology in the outer solar corona. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Mancuso , M. V. Garzelli

Cosmological simulations predict that an intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) pervades the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe. Measuring the IGMF is important to determine its origin (i.e. primordial or otherwise). Using data from…

We consider turbulent synchrotron emitting media that also exhibits Faraday rotation and provide a statistical description of synchrotron polarization fluctuations. In particular, we consider these fluctuations as a function of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

(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 goal of this work is to investigate the Faraday rotation measure (RM) of radio galaxies in hot galaxy clusters in order to establish a possible connection between the magnetic field strength and the gas temperature of the intracluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Govoni , K. Dolag , M. Murgia , L. Feretti , S. Schindler , G. Giovannini , W. Boschin , V. Vacca , A. Bonafede

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 gyrotropic properties of a rotating magnetized plasma are derived analytically. Mechanical rotation leads to a new cutoff for wave propagation along the magnetic field and polarization rotation above this cutoff is the sum of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Gueroult , J. -M. Rax , N. J. Fisch

We report a systematic rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation propagating over cosmological distances. The effect is extracted independently from Faraday rotation, and found to be correlated with the angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Borge Nodland , John P. Ralston

The presence of magnetic fields in the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies has been revealed through several different observational techniques. These fields may be dynamically important in clusters as they will provide additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tracy E. Clarke

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

Unveiling the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of galaxies is a very important and challenging subject in modern astronomy. In order to probe the IGMF from rotation measures (RMs) of extragalactic radio sources, we need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Takuya Akahori , Kohei Kumazaki , Keitaro Takahashi , Dongsu Ryu

We present a novel experiment with the capacity to independently measure both the electron density and the magnetic field of the solar corona. We achieve this through measurement of the excess Faraday rotation due to propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Ord , S. Johnston , J. Sarkissian

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