DEFROST: Detecting Excess in Faraday Rotation thrOugh Sophisticated analysis Techniques
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| author | Vacca, Valentina Hutschenreuter, Sebastian Cabriolu, Andrea Ensslin, Torsten A. Roth, Jakob Reineke, Martin Frank, Philipp Govoni, Federica Murgia, Matteo Fenu, Gianni |
| author_facet | Vacca, Valentina Hutschenreuter, Sebastian Cabriolu, Andrea Ensslin, Torsten A. Roth, Jakob Reineke, Martin Frank, Philipp Govoni, Federica Murgia, Matteo Fenu, Gianni |
| contents | Understanding origin and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields requires knowledge of magnetic fields in different extragalactic environments. In this context, a powerful tool is the statistical analysis of the Faraday effect on the linear polarization of a sample of radio sources. This effect carries information about the magnetic fields in our Galaxy, extragalactic environments between the sources and the observer, and within the emitting radio source itself. An accurate disentangling of all these components is crucial to characterize magnetic fields in the LSS of the Universe. The significant amount of data delivered by new radio instruments enables the investigation of increasingly weak magnetic fields. However, a trustworthy characterization is only possible with advanced analysis techniques. In this work, we present a new algorithm capable of simultaneously disentangling the Faraday effect due to our Galaxy from extragalactic contributions, by properly taking into account the observing noise. The algorithm takes as an input a catalog of RM complemented by auxiliary information as, e.g., the redshift. We tested the algorithm with synthetic data to assess its performance and identify the range of Galactic magnetic field power spectrum slopes that allows us to properly disentangle Galactic and extragalactic terms. Furthermore, we tested the algorithm with synthetic catalogs, based on m- and cm-data currently available, corresponding to different observing setups, noise, and cuts in the absolute value of the Galactic latitude of the radio sources. Considering noise values and density of polarized sources consistent with existing catalogs, we demonstrated that the most robust results are obtained with sources with absolute Galactic latitude > 45deg, with inference of the extragalactic parameters at most within 5sigma, both for dispersion in Faraday rotation of ~1 and 10rad/m2. |
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| spellingShingle | DEFROST: Detecting Excess in Faraday Rotation thrOugh Sophisticated analysis Techniques Vacca, Valentina Hutschenreuter, Sebastian Cabriolu, Andrea Ensslin, Torsten A. Roth, Jakob Reineke, Martin Frank, Philipp Govoni, Federica Murgia, Matteo Fenu, Gianni Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Understanding origin and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields requires knowledge of magnetic fields in different extragalactic environments. In this context, a powerful tool is the statistical analysis of the Faraday effect on the linear polarization of a sample of radio sources. This effect carries information about the magnetic fields in our Galaxy, extragalactic environments between the sources and the observer, and within the emitting radio source itself. An accurate disentangling of all these components is crucial to characterize magnetic fields in the LSS of the Universe. The significant amount of data delivered by new radio instruments enables the investigation of increasingly weak magnetic fields. However, a trustworthy characterization is only possible with advanced analysis techniques. In this work, we present a new algorithm capable of simultaneously disentangling the Faraday effect due to our Galaxy from extragalactic contributions, by properly taking into account the observing noise. The algorithm takes as an input a catalog of RM complemented by auxiliary information as, e.g., the redshift. We tested the algorithm with synthetic data to assess its performance and identify the range of Galactic magnetic field power spectrum slopes that allows us to properly disentangle Galactic and extragalactic terms. Furthermore, we tested the algorithm with synthetic catalogs, based on m- and cm-data currently available, corresponding to different observing setups, noise, and cuts in the absolute value of the Galactic latitude of the radio sources. Considering noise values and density of polarized sources consistent with existing catalogs, we demonstrated that the most robust results are obtained with sources with absolute Galactic latitude > 45deg, with inference of the extragalactic parameters at most within 5sigma, both for dispersion in Faraday rotation of ~1 and 10rad/m2. |
| title | DEFROST: Detecting Excess in Faraday Rotation thrOugh Sophisticated analysis Techniques |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13605 |