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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

Radio continuum and polarization observations of several nearby galaxies allowed to determine their vertical scaleheights, magnetic field strengths and large-scale magnetic field patterns. They all show a similar large-scale magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-13 Marita Krause

Galaxy clusters that host radio halos indicate the presence of population(s) of non-thermal electrons. These electrons can scatter low-energy photons of the Cosmic Microwave Background, resulting in the non-thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (ntSZ)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Vyoma Muralidhara , Kaustuv Basu

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

Sharp fronts observed by Chandra satellite between dense cool cluster cores moving with near-sonic velocity through the hotter intergalactic gas, require strong suppression of thermal conductivity across the boundary. This may be due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxim Lyutikov

We investigate the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters starting from constant primordial fields using highly resolved ($\approx \rm 4 ~kpc$) cosmological MHD simulations. The magnetic fields in our sample exhibit amplification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Gianfranco Brunetti

We present the evolutionary properties and luminosity functions of the radio sources belonging to the Chandra Deep Field South VLA survey, which reaches a flux density limit at 1.4 GHz of 43 microJy at the field center and redshift ~5, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Padovani , N. Miller , K. I. Kellermann , V. Mainieri , P. Rosati , P. Tozzi

We compare high-resolution optical and radio imaging of 12 luminous submm galaxies at z=2.2+/-0.2 observed with HST and the MERLIN and VLA at comparable spatial resolution, 0.3" (2kpc). The radio emission traces the likely far-infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Chapman , Ian Smail , R. Windhorst , T. Muxlow , R. J. Ivison

The Galactic interstellar medium hosts a significant magnetic field, which can be probed through the synchrotron emission produced from its interaction with relativistic electrons. Linearly polarized synchrotron emission is generated…

The contribution of active galactic nuclei to the magnetisation of the Universe can be constrained by knowing their duty cycles, jet and magnetic field morphologies, and the physical processes dominating their interaction with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 B. Adebahr , M. Brienza , R. Morganti

(Abrigded) Observations of galaxies up to z 2 show a tight correlation between far-infrared and radio continuum emission. We explain the far-infrared - radio continuum correlation by relating star formation and magnetic field strength in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Rainer Beck

Context. Submillimeter Array (SMA) 870 micron polarization observations of the hot molecular core G31.41+0.31 revealed one of the clearest examples up to date of an hourglass-shaped magnetic field morphology in a high-mass star-forming…

We use the integrated polarized radio emission at 1.4 GHz ($\Pi_{\rm 1.4\,GHz}$) from a large sample of AGN (796 sources at redshifts $z<0.7$) to study the large-scale magnetic field properties of radio galaxies in relation to the host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Shane P. O'Sullivan , B. M. Gaensler , M. A. Lara-López , S. van Velzen , J. K. Banfield , J. S. Farnes

The existence of magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies is now well established through different methods of analysis. The most detailed evidence for the presence of cluster magnetic fields comes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Federica Govoni

We present a model of the global magnetic field in the barred galaxy NGC 1365 based jointly on the large-scale velocity field of interstellar gas fitted to HI and CO observations of this galaxy and on mean-field dynamo theory. The aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Moss , A. P. Snodin , P. Englmaier , A. Shukurov , R. Beck , D. D. Sokoloff

We investigate the physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the merging pair of galaxies known as The Antennae (NGC 4038/39), using the deep coadded ~411 ks Chandra ACIS-S data set. The method of analysis and some of the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Baldi , J. C. Raymond , G. Fabbiano , A. Zezas , A. H. Rots , F. Schweizer , A. R. King , T. J. Ponman

We compare mid-infrared images of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/39) from the Infrared Space Observatory, with optical images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The mid-infrared observations show that the most intense starburst in this…

With the imagery from GALEX, HST, 2MASS, and Spitzer, and at the resolution of MIPS 24 micron(~6"), we study the variations of the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of star-forming regions within the nearest prototypal major…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Hong-Xin Zhang , Yu Gao , Xu Kong

Deep VLA 1.4 GHz radio continuum imaging of Abell 2255 is presented. This cluster is among the better nearby candidates for rich cluster-cluster merger systems, with evidence including an elongated X-ray morphology, the presence of a radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neal Miller , Frazer Owen

We study the exponential scale length of total radio emission, the spectral index distribution, and the linear radio polarization in the Scd galaxy M33. Observations were carried out using the 3.6 cm dual channel and the 6.2 cm four channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. Tabatabaei , M. Krause , R. Beck