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astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey III: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) First Data Release

Alec J. M. Thomson, David McConnell, Emil Lenc +23

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope has carried out a survey of the entire Southern Sky at 887.5MHz. The wide area, high angular resolution, and broad bandwidth p…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 31 cited

A Catalogue of Radio Supernova Remnants and Candidate Supernova Remnants in the EMU/POSSUM Galactic Pilot Field

Brianna D. Ball, Roland Kothes, Erik Rosolowsky +15

We use data from the pilot observations of the EMU/POSSUM surveys to study the "missing supernova remnant (SNR) problem", the discrepancy between the number of Galactic SNRs that h…

astro-ph.GA2023

Sampling the Faraday rotation sky of TNG50: Imprint of the magnetised circumgalactic medium around Milky Way-like galaxies

Seoyoung Lyla Jung, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Ruediger Pakmor +4

Faraday rotation measure (RM) is arguably the most practical observational tracer of magnetic fields in the diffuse circumgalactic medium (CGM). We sample synthetic Faraday rotatio…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

A Comparison of Multi-Phase Magnetic Field Tracers in a High-Galactic Latitude Region of the Filamentary Interstellar Medium

J. L. Campbell, S. E. Clark, B. M. Gaensler +8

Understanding how the Galactic magnetic field threads the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) remains a considerable challenge, as different magnetic field tracers probe dissimil…

astro-ph.GA2021

Multi-tracer analysis of straight depolarisation canals in the surroundings of the 3C 196 field

Luka Turić, Vibor Jelić, Rutger Jaspers +6

Faraday tomography of a field centred on the extragalactic point source 3C 196 with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) revealed an intertwined structure of diffuse polarised emission…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS): The brightest polarized region in the Southern sky at 75cm and its implications for Radio Loop II

Alec J. M. Thomson, T. L. Landecker, N. M. McClure-Griffiths +16

Using the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS) Low-Band South (LBS) southern sky polarization survey, covering 300 to 480 MHz at 81 arcmin resolution, we reveal the brightest…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Revisiting Rotation Measures from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey: the Magnetic Field in the Disk of the Outer Galaxy

C. L. Van Eck, J. C. Brown, A. Ordog +9

Faraday rotation provides a valuable tracer of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium; catalogs of Faraday rotation measures provide key observations for studies of the Galacti…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 42 cited

Early Science from POSSUM: Shocks, turbulence, and a massive new reservoir of ionised gas in the Fornax cluster

C. S. Anderson, G. H. Heald, J. A. Eilek +19

We present the first Faraday rotation measure (RM) grid study of an individual low-mass cluster -- the Fornax cluster -- which is presently undergoing a series of mergers. Exploiti…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The Galactic Faraday rotation sky 2020

Sebastian Hutschenreuter, Craig S. Anderson, Sarah Betti +34

This work gives an update to existing reconstructions of the Galactic Faraday rotation sky by processing almost all Faraday rotation data sets available at the end of the year 2020…

astro-ph.GA2020

Magnetism Science with the Square Kilometre Array

George Heald, Sui Ann Mao, Valentina Vacca +41

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will answer fundamental questions about the origin, evolution, properties, and influence of magnetic fields throughout the Universe. Magnetic field…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

The POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS) II: Results from an All-Sky Rotation Measure Synthesis Survey at Long Wavelengths

C. J. Riseley, T. J. Galvin, C. Sobey +11

The low-frequency linearly-polarised radio source population is largely unexplored. However, a renaissance in low-frequency polarimetry has been enabled by pathfinder and precursor…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

Low-frequency observations of the Giant Radio Galaxy NGC 6251

T. M. Cantwell, J. D. Bray, J. H. Croston +22

We present LOFAR observations at 150 MHz of the borderline FRI/FRII giant radio galaxy NGC 6251. This paper presents the most sensitive and highest-resolution images of NGC 6251 at…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited

Through thick or thin: Multiple components of the magneto-ionic medium towards the nearby region Sharpless 2-27 revealed by Faraday tomography

Alec J. M. Thomson, T. L. Landecker, John M. Dickey +12

Sharpless 2-27 (Sh2-27) is a nearby region excited by Oph. We present observations of polarized radio emission from 300 to 480MHz towards Sh2-27, made…

astro-ph.GA2019

Faraday Rotation of Extended Emission as a Probe of the Large-Scale Galactic Magnetic Field

Anna Ordog, Rebecca A. Booth, Cameron L. Van Eck +2

The Galactic magnetic field is an integral constituent of the interstellar medium (ISM), and knowledge of its structure is crucial to understanding Galactic dynamics. The Rotation…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 42 cited

Diffuse polarized emission in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey

C. L. Van Eck, M. Haverkorn, M. I. R. Alves +13

Faraday tomography allows us to map diffuse polarized synchrotron emission from our Galaxy and use it to interpret the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). We have appl…

astro-ph.GA2018

The Power of Low Frequencies: Faraday Tomography in the sub-GHz regime

Cameron L. Van Eck

Faraday tomography, the study of the distribution of extended polarized emission by strength of Faraday rotation, is a powerful tool for studying magnetic fields in the interstella…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 37 cited

The POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS) I: First Results from a Low-Frequency Radio Linear Polarisation Survey of the Southern Sky

C. J. Riseley, E. Lenc, C. L. Van Eck +7

The low-frequency polarisation properties of radio sources are poorly studied, particularly in statistical samples. However, the new generation of low-frequency telescopes, such as…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 47 cited

Polarized point sources in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: A preliminary catalog

C. L. Van Eck, M. Haverkorn, M. I. R. Alves +22

The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 90 cited

Faraday tomography of the local interstellar medium with LOFAR: Galactic foregrounds towards IC342

C. L. Van Eck, M. Haverkorn, M. I. R. Alves +18

The new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array-low pathfinder), provides advancements in our capability of p…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 54 cited

Magnetic Fields in a Sample of Nearby Spiral Galaxies

Cameron Van Eck, Jo-Anne Brown, Anvar Shukurov +1

Both observations and modelling of magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar gas of spiral galaxies are well developed but the theory has been confronted with observations for on…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 72 cited

New Constraints on the Galactic Halo Magnetic Field using Rotation Measures of Extragalactic Sources Towards the Outer Galaxy

S. A. Mao, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, B. M. Gaensler +7

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…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 252 cited

An improved map of the Galactic Faraday sky

N. Oppermann, H. Junklewitz, G. Robbers +28

We aim to summarize the current state of knowledge regarding Galactic Faraday rotation in an all-sky map of the Galactic Faraday depth. For this we have assembled the most extensiv…