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Faraday rotation measures (RMs) have been used for many studies of cosmic magnetism, and in most cases having more RMs is beneficial for those studies. This has lead to development of RM surveys that have produced large catalogs, as well as…

We investigate the problem of probing the local spatial structure of the magnetic field of the interstellar medium using multi-frequency polarized maps of the synchrotron emission at radio wavelengths. We focus in this paper on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jerome Thiebaut , Simon Prunet , Christophe Pichon , Eric Thiébaut

We present a study of the Milky Way disk and halo magnetic field, determined from observations of Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 641 polarized extragalactic radio sources in the Galactic longitude range 100-117 degs, within 30 degs…

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. "Cosmic Magnetism" has been accepted as Key Science Project both for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR, under construction) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-30 Rainer Beck

The effects on CMB measurements of foreground contamination due to synchrotron radiation, free-free emission and discrete sources are considered. Estimates of the level and power spectrum of the Galactic fluctuations are made using low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Lasenby

The presence of astrophysical emissions between the last scattering surface and our vantage point requires us to apply a foreground mask on CMB sky map, leading to large cut around the Galactic equator and numerous holes. Since many CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-17 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Nazzareno Mandolesi

With the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), multi-frequency polarimetric images were taken of the diffuse radio synchrotron background in a region centered on (l,b) = (161,16). The observations were done simultaneously in 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Marijke Haverkorn , Peter Katgert , Ger de Bruyn

Observational study of galactic magnetic fields is hampered by the fact that the observables only probe various projections of the magnetic fields. Comparison with numerical simulations is helpful to understand the real structures, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Mami Machida , Takuya Akahori , Kenji Nakamura Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Marijke Haverkorn

We construct a simple and robust approach for deriving constraints on magnetic fields in galaxy clusters from rotation measure (RM) maps. Relaxing the commonly used assumptions of a correlation between the magnetic field strength and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-19 Gilad Rave , Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman

We present a broadband spectropolarimetric survey of 563 discrete, mostly unresolved radio sources between 1.3 \& 2.0 GHz using data taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We have used rotation measure synthesis to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 C. S. Anderson , B. M. Gaensler , I. J. Feain , T. M. O. Franzen

Magnetized plasmas traversed by linearly polarized light will reveal their presence by the frequency dependent Faraday rotation of the angle of polarization. The regions surrounding the black holes powering the jets in AGNs are expected to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-12 W. D. Cotton , E. Kravchenko , Y. Kovalev , E. Fomalont

We analyse the observational signatures of galactic magnetic fields that are self-consistently generated in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium through turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and differential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-06 Yann Carteret , Abhijit B. Bendre , Jennifer Schober

We have conducted a survey of Faraday rotation in a sample of 191 compact radio-loud AGNs as part of the MOJAVE (Monitoring of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments) project. The observations were carried out with the VLBA at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-03 T. Hovatta , M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

The ARCADE 2 collaboration has reported a significant excess in the isotropic radio background, whose homogeneity cannot be reconciled with clustered sources. This suggests a cosmological origin prior to structure formation. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 James M. Cline , Aaron C. Vincent

We investigate the properties of the Galactic ISM by applying Faraday tomography to a radio polarization data set in the direction of the Galactic anti-centre. We address the problem of missing large-scale structure in our data, and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

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 aim of this work is to probe the magnetic field properties in relics and infall regions of galaxy clusters using Faraday Rotation Measures. We present Very Large Array multi-frequency observations of seven sources in the region…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Bonafede , F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , G. Ogrean

The strength of the total magnetic field in our Milky Way from radio Zeeman and synchrotron measurements is about 6 muG near the Sun and several mG in dense clouds, pulsar wind nebulae, and filaments near the Galactic Center. Diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is our richest source of cosmological information; the standard cosmological model was largely established thanks to study of the temperature anisotropies. By the end of the decade, the Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James G. Bartlett

We present a detailed study of the Faraday depth structure of four bright (> 1 Jy), strongly polarized, unresolved, radio-loud quasars. The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) was used to observe these sources with 2 GHz of…