Cosmic ray processes in galactic ecosystems

ER Owen, K Wu, Y Inoue, HYK Yang, AMW Mitchell - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Galaxy evolution is an important topic, and our physical understanding must be complete to
establish a correct picture. This includes a thorough treatment of feedback. The effects of …

Polarized thermal emission from dust in a galaxy at redshift 2.6

JE Geach, E Lopez-Rodriguez, MJ Doherty, J Chen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic fields are fundamental to the evolution of galaxies, playing a key role in the
astrophysics of the interstellar medium and star formation. Large-scale ordered magnetic …

The Pandora project–I. The impact of radiation, magnetic fields, and cosmic rays on the baryonic and dark matter properties of dwarf galaxies

S Martin-Alvarez, D Sijacki, MG Haehnelt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Enshrouded in several well-known controversies, dwarf galaxies have been extensively
studied to learn about the underlying cosmology, notwithstanding that physical processes …

Extragalactic magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program): the magnetic fields in the multiphase interstellar medium of the antennae galaxies

E Lopez-Rodriguez, AS Borlaff, R Beck… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Mergers are thought to be a fundamental channel for galaxy growth, perturbing the gas
dynamics and the magnetic fields (B-fields) in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the …

Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). V. First Results on the Magnetic Field Orientation of Galaxies

AS Borlaff, E Lopez-Rodriguez, R Beck… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the analysis of the magnetic field (B-field) structure of galaxies measured with far-
infrared (FIR) and radio (3 and 6 cm) polarimetric observations. We use the first data release …

Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Gas and dust in nearby galaxies

D Liu, A Saintonge, C Bot, F Kemper… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding the physical processes that regulate star formation and galaxy evolution are
major areas of activity in modern astrophysics. Nearby galaxies offer unique opportunities to …

The magnetic fields of starburst galaxies. I. Identification and characterization of the thermal polarization in the galactic disk and outflow

E Lopez-Rodriguez - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Far-infrared polarized emission by means of magnetically aligned dust grains is an excellent
tracer of the magnetic fields (B-fields) in the cold phase of the galactic outflows of starburst …

H i filaments as potential compass needles? Comparing the magnetic field structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud to the orientation of GASKAP-H i filaments

YK Ma, NM McClure-Griffiths, SE Clark… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
High-spatial-resolution H i observations have led to the realization that the nearby (within
few hundreds of parsecs) Galactic atomic filamentary structures are aligned with the ambient …

The structure of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies: a radio and far-infrared polarimetric analysis

WJ Surgent, E Lopez-Rodriguez… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose and apply a method to quantify the morphology of the large-scale ordered
magnetic fields (B-fields) in galaxies. This method is adapted from the analysis of Event …

Mapping and characterizing magnetic fields in the Rho Ophiuchus-A molecular cloud with SOFIA/HAWC+

N Lê, A Karska, T Hoang, PN Diep, M Hanasz… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Together with gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, magnetic fields (B-fields)
are thought to play a critical role in the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation …