The coherent magnetic field of the Milky Way

M Unger, GR Farrar - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a suite of models of the coherent magnetic field of the Galaxy based on new
divergence-free parametric functions describing the global structure of the field. The model …

The Faraday Rotation Measure Grid of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Data Release 2

SP O'Sullivan, TW Shimwell… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A Faraday rotation measure (RM) catalogue, or RM Grid, is a valuable resource
for the study of cosmic magnetism. Using the second data release (DR2) from the LOFAR …

Estimating extragalactic Faraday rotation

N Oppermann, H Junklewitz, M Greiner… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Observations of Faraday rotation for extragalactic sources probe magnetic fields both inside
and outside the Milky Way. Building on our earlier estimate of the Galactic contribution, we …

New limits on extragalactic magnetic fields from rotation measures

MS Pshirkov, PG Tinyakov, FR Urban - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We take advantage of the wealth of rotation measures data contained in the NRAO VLA Sky
Survey catalog to derive new, statistically robust, upper limits on the strength of extragalactic …

Cosmic magnetism in centimeter-and meter-wavelength radio astronomy

T Akahori, H Nakanishi, Y Sofue, Y Fujita… - Publications of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The magnetic field is ubiquitous in the universe. Though it plays an essential role in various
astrophysical phenomena, its real origin and evolution are poorly known. This article …

RMTable2023 and PolSpectra2023: standards for reporting polarization and Faraday rotation measurements of radio sources

CL Van Eck, BM Gaensler… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 the …

MIGHTEE polarization early science fields: the deep polarized sky

AR Taylor, S Sekhar, L Heino… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The MeerKAT International GigaHertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration
(MIGHTEE) is one of the MeerKAT large survey projects, designed to pathfind SKA key …

S-band Polarization All-Sky Survey (S-PASS): survey description and maps

E Carretti, M Haverkorn… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the S-Band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS), a survey of polarized radio
emission over the southern sky at Dec.<− 1° taken with the Parkes radio telescope at 2.3 …

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey III: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) first data release

AJM Thomson, D McConnell, E Lenc… - Publications of the …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope has carried out a survey of the
entire Southern Sky at 887.5 MHz. The wide area, high angular resolution, and broad …

Sardinia Radio Telescope observations of Abell 194-the intra-cluster magnetic field power spectrum

F Govoni, M Murgia, V Vacca, F Loi, M Girardi… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the intra-cluster magnetic field in the poor galaxy cluster Abell 194 by
complementing radio data, at different frequencies, with data in the optical and X-ray bands …