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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

We simulate the astrometric observations of stars moving close to the black hole in the Galactic Center. We show, that for orbits =<1000 AU and position measurements with the accuracy of the Keck Interferometer, the periastron motion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jaroszynski

Deriving the Faraday rotation measure (RM) of quasar absorption line systems, which are tracers of high-redshift galaxies intervening background quasars, is a powerful tool for probing magnetic fields in distant galaxies. Statistically…

We report parallaxes and proper motions of three water maser sources in high-mass star-forming regions in the Outer Spiral Arm of the Milky Way. The observations were conducted with the Very Long Baseline Array as part of Bar and Spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 K. Hachisuka , Y. K. Choi , M. J. Reid , A. Brunthaler , K. M. Menten , A. Sanna , T. M. Dame

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

The direction and magnitude of the dipole anisotropy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with energies above 8 EeV observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory indicate their extragalactic origin. The observed dipole on Earth does not necessarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Alena Bakalová , Jakub Vícha , Petr Trávníček

We report measurements of trigonometric parallaxes for six high-mass star-forming regions in the Scutum spiral arm of the Milky Way as part of the BeSSeL Survey. Combining our measurements with 10 previous measurements from the BeSSeL…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Sato , Y. W. Wu , K. Immer , B. Zhang , A. Sanna , M. J. Reid , T. M. Dame , A. Brunthaler , K. M. Menten

The rotation curve is significant to research on dark matter and the structure of the Milky Way. But it is a great challenge to measure rotation curve accurately, and different ways obtain distinct results. In this work, we use a DIY small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Hong-Yu Li , Jia-Hao Hu

To search for a signature of an intracluster magnetic field, we compare measurements of Faraday rotation of polarised extragalactic radio sources in the line of sight of galaxy clusters with those outside. We correlated a catalogue of 1383…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon , Philipp P. Kronberg

We derive the magnitude of fluctuations in total synchrotron intensity in the Milky Way and M33, from both observations and theory under various assumption about the relation between cosmic rays and interstellar magnetic fields. Given the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-05 Rodion Stepanov , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Rainer Beck , Laura La Porta , Fatemeh Tabatabaei

Magnetic fields permeate the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way, and are essential to explain the dynamical evolution and current shape of the Galaxy. Magnetic fields reveal themselves via their influence on the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Marijke Haverkorn , Philipp Frank , Nergis C. Raycheva , Torsten A. Enßlin

The radial scale length of the exponential component of the disc of the Milky Way has been determined in the near infrared. We have used the TMGS (Two Micron Galactic Survey) database which contains positions and K-magnitudes of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Porcel , F. Garzon , J. Jimenez-Vicente , E. Battaner

We determine the effect of intergalactic magnetic fields on the distribution of high energy gamma rays by performing three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of the development of gamma-ray-induced electromagnetic cascades in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 Rafael Alves Batista , Andrey Saveliev , Guenter Sigl , Tanmay Vachaspati

Locating the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) still remains a difficult puzzle for modern astrophysics. A major hurdle in the search for the sources is the fact that UHECRs are deflected by the Galactic magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 G. Magkos , V. Pavlidou

Interstellar magnetic fields exist over a broad range of spatial scales, extending from the large Galactic scales ($\sim 10$ kpc) down to the very small dissipative scales ($\ll 1$ pc). In this paper, we use a set of 490 pulsars distributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han , K. Ferriere , R. N. Manchester

By performing a global magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation for the Milky Way with an axisymmetric gravitational potential, we propose that spatially dependent amplification of magnetic fields possibly explains the observed noncircular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Takeru K. Suzuki , Yasuo Fukui , Kazufumi Torii , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , Kensuke Kakiuchi

RoadMapping is a dynamical modeling machinery developed to constrain the Milky Way's (MW) gravitational potential by simultaneously fitting an axisymmetric parametrized potential and an action-based orbit distribution function (DF) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-26 Wilma H. Trick , Jo Bovy , Elena D'Onghia , Hans-Walter Rix

Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) should be interpreted with caution because there could be multiple magneto-ionized medium components that contribute to the net Faraday rotation along sight-lines. We introduce a simple test using Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Seoyoung Lyla Jung , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths , Alex S. Hill

This work combines new observations of NIR starlight linear polarimetry with previously simulated observations in order to constrain dynamo models of the Galactic magnetic field. Polarimetric observations were obtained with the Mimir…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael D. Pavel , Dan P. Clemens , April F. Pinnick

We measure the kinematic signature arising from the Milky Way (MW) disc moving with respect to the outer stellar halo, which is observed as a dipole signal in the kinematics of stellar halo tracers. We quantify how the reflex motion varies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-21 Rashid Yaaqib , Michael S. Petersen , Jorge Peñarrubia