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We analyze Faraday rotation and depolarization of extragalactic radio point sources in the direction of the inner Galactic plane to determine the outer scale and amplitude of the rotation measure power spectrum. Structure functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Haverkorn , J. C. Brown , B. M. Gaensler , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

It was recently suggested by Boldyrev & Gwinn that the characteristics of radio scintillations from distant pulsars are best understood if the interstellar electron-density fluctuations that cause the time broadening of the radio pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Stanislav Boldyrev , Arieh Konigl

The degree of linear polarization has recently been found to show wide random variations over the solar disk. These variations are presumably at least partly due to fluctuations in the flux density of turbulent photospheric magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Petrovay

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been identified as extragalactic sources which can make a probe of turbulence in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and their host galaxies. To account for the observed millisecond pulses caused by scatter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Radio broadband spectro-polarimetric observations are sensitive to the spatial fluctuations of the Faraday depth (FD) within the telescope beam. Such FD fluctuations are referred to as "Faraday complexity", and can unveil small-scale…

A great deal of study has been carried out over the last twenty years on the origin of the magnetic activity in the Galactic center. One of the most popular hypotheses assumes milli-Gauss magnetic field with poloidal geometry, pervading the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

Radio wave scattering can cause severe reductions in detection sensitivity for surveys of Galactic and extragalactic fast ($\sim$ms duration) transients. While Galactic sources like pulsars undergo scattering in the Milky Way interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , M. R. Gorsuch

Observations reveal a uniform Kolmogorov turbulence throughout the diffuse ionized interstellar medium (ISM) and supersonic turbulence preferentially located in the Galactic plane. Correspondingly, we consider the Galactic distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

The shocks produced in the intergalactic medium during large-scale structure formation accelerate a population of highly relativistic electrons which emit synchrotron radiation due to intergalactic magnetic fields. In a previous paper (Loeb…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

The pulse widths, dispersion measures and dispersion indices of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. We show that if the dispersion measures resulted from propagation through the intergalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-07 J. I. Katz

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

We develop the theory of interstellar scintillation as caused by an irregular plasma having a power-law spatial density spectrum with a spectral exponent of 4 corresponding to a medium with abrupt changes in its density. An ``outer scale''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hendrik Lambert , Barney Rickett

We present an analysis of rotation measure (RM) fluctuations from the Test Region of the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS), along with emission measure (EM) fluctuations in the same field taken from the Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey…

Intermittent magnetic structures are a plausible candidate for explaining cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion rates derived from observed CR energy spectra. Independently, studies of extreme scattering events (ESEs) of radio quasars and pulsar…

We analyze plasma dispersion and scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify the dominant locations of free electrons along their lines of sight and thus constrain the distances of the burst sources themselves. We establish the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-20 J. M. Cordes , R. S. Wharton , L. G. Spitler , S. Chatterjee , I. Wasserman

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of turbulence within the intergalactic medium (IGM), a phenomenon that plays a crucial role in various cosmological and astrophysical processes. In this study, we employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Rui-Nan Li , Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Qin Wu , F. Y. Wang

We study the formation of multiphase gas in the post-accretion-shock regions of cosmic sheets, filaments, and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of haloes, i.e., cosmic web objects (CWOs). Local instabilities in the hot medium result in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Sharon Lapiner , Nir Mandelker , Paz Beniamini , S. Peng Oh

The unusual class of magnetized nonthermal radio filaments (NTF), threads and streaks with their unique physical characteristics are found only within the inner couple of degrees of the Galactic center. Also, a number of young, mass-losing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Yusef-Zadeh

The amplitude of the magnetic field near the Galactic Centre has been uncertain by two orders of magnitude for several decades. On a scale of approximately 100 pc fields of approximately 1000 microG have been reported, implying a magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-11 Roland M. Crocker , David Jones , Fulvio Melia , Jürgen Ott , Raymond J. Protheroe
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