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The influence of intergalactic magnetic fields on the strong gravitational lensing of blazar secondary gamma radiation is discussed. Currently, two cases of strong gravitational lensing of blazar gamma-radiation are known, where radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Yury N. Eroshenko

(Abridged) This paper introduces the formalism which connects between rotation measure ($\RM$) measurements for extragalactic sources and the cosmological magnetic field power spectrum. It is shown that the amplitude and shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tsafrir Kolatt

Models for the diffuse Galactic continuum emission and synchrotron radiation show that it is difficult to reproduce observations of both of these from the same population of cosmic-ray electrons. This indicates that an important contributor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

We use absolutely calibrated data between 3 and 90 GHz from the 2006 balloon flight of the ARCADE 2 instrument, along with previous measurements at other frequencies, to constrain models of extragalactic emission. Such emission is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 M. Seiffert , D. J. Fixsen , A. Kogut , S. M. Levin , M. Limon , P. M. Lubin , P. Mirel , J. Singal , T. Villela , E. Wollack , C. A. Wuensche

Relativistic electrons, seen in the large diffuse radio halo of the Coma cluster of galaxies, should scatter background photons to higher energies. We calculate the inverse Compton contributions from the microwave background, from the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin , Peter L. Biermann

Data from (non-) attenuation of gamma rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and gamma ray bursts (GRBs) give upper limits on the extragalactic background light (EBL) from the UV to the mid-IR that are only a little above the lower limits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joel R. Primack , Alberto Dominguez , Rudy C. Gilmore , Rachel S. Somerville

A sufficiently magnetized Local Supercluster can explain the spectrum and angular distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We show that the spectrum of extragalactic cosmic rays with energies below $\sim 10^{20}$ eV may be due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Pasquale Blasi , Angela V. Olinto

We have observed the central 45' region of the Galaxy at 620 MHz band of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in radio continuum, and measured the polarisation properties of 64 small diameter background extragalactic sources seen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhashis Roy

Non-thermal magnetospheric processes in the vicinity of supermassive black holes have attracted particular attention in recent times. Gap-type particle acceleration accompanied by curvature and Inverse Compton radiation could in principle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-18 Frank M. Rieger , Grigorios Katsoulakos

... A strict lower-limit flux for the evolving extragalactic background light (and in particular the cosmic infrared background) has been calculated up to redshift of 5. The computed flux is below the existing upper limits from direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tanja M. Kneiske , Herve Dole

We argue that the observed correlation between the radio luminosity and the X-ray luminosity in radio emitting galaxy clusters implies that the radio emission is due to secondary electrons that are produced by p-p interactions and lose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-22 Doron Kushnir , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

We set limits on the presence of the synchrotron cosmic web through the cross-correlation of the 2.3 GHz S-PASS survey with a model of the local cosmic web derived from constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The MHD simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. Brown , T. Vernstrom , E. Carretti , K. Dolag , B. M. Gaensler , L. Staveley-Smith , G. Bernardi , M. Haverkorn , M. Kesteven , S. Poppi

The evolution of magnetic fields in galaxies is still an open problem in astrophysics. In nearby galaxies the far-infrared-radio correlation indicates the coupling between magnetic fields and star formation. The correlation arises from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Jennifer Schober , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Ralf S. Klessen

Galactic magnetic fields are observed of order $\sim 10^{-6}G$, but their origin is not definitely known yet. In this paper we consider the primordial magnetic fields generated in the early universe and analyse their effects on the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Seoktae Koh , Chul H. Lee

Telescope Array collaboration has reported an evidence for existence of a source of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) events in Perseus-Pisces supercluster. We show that the mere existence of such a source imposes an upper bound on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-16 Andrii Neronov , Dmitri Semikoz , Oleg Kalashev

The observed upper bound on the spin down rate of the otherwise typical Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 0418+5729 has challenged the interpretation of this source as a neutron star with ultrastrong magnetic fields. Current limits imply a dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 Tolga Guver , Ersin Gogus , Feryal Ozel

We study the Faraday rotation measure (RM) due to the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) toward high Galactic latitudes. The RM arises from the global, regular component as well as from the turbulent, random component of the GMF. We model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Takuya Akahori , Dongsu Ryu , Jongsoo Kim , B. M. Gaensler

The propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in extragalactic magnetic fields can be diffusive, depending on the strength and properties of the fields. In some cases the propagation time of the particles can be comparable to the age of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Rafael Alves Batista , Guenter Sigl

The magnetic field pervading our Galaxy is a crucial constituent of the interstellar medium: it mediates the dynamics of interstellar clouds, the energy density of cosmic rays, and the formation of stars. The field associated with ionized…

The ultra-high energy cosmic rays observed at the Earth are most likely accelerated in extra-galactic sources. For the typical luminosities invoked for such sources, the electric current associated to the flux of cosmic rays that leave them…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 P. Blasi , E. Amato , M. D'Angelo