Diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters: multi-wavelength observations

• Applicant: Professor Marcus Brüggen, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2017 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 340567605

• Final Report Year: 2021

Final Report Abstract

We worked successfully on a wide range of topics within the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) collaboration and made a lasting impact on the entire field. The work went far beyond the goals that we had initially designated for project. In particular, we set out to calibrate the polarisation in LOFAR observations and searched for polarised sources in the Tier-I survey.

Publications

• (2019). Magnetic field at a jet base: extreme Faraday rotation in 3C 273 revealed by ALMA. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 623, A111
  Hovatta, T., O’Sullivan, S., Martí-Vidal, I., Savolainen, T., & Tchekhovskoy, A.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832587)
• (2020). Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction. Nature Astronomy, 4(6), 577-583
  Vedantham, H. K., et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1011-9)
• (2020). New constraints on the magnetization of the cosmic web using LOFAR Faraday rotation observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 2607-2619
  O’Sullivan, S. P., et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1395)
• (2020). The LOFAR view of intergalactic magnetic fields with giant radio galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 638, A48
  Stuardi, C., et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037635)
• (2021). A low-frequency study of linear polarization in radio galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1), 273-292
  Mahatma, V. H., Hardcastle, M. J., Harwood, J., O’Sullivan, S. P., Heald, G., Horellou, C., & Smith, D. J. B.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3980)
• (2021). Simulations and observational tests of primordial magnetic fields from Cosmic Microwave Background constraints. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(4), 5350-5368
  Vazza, F., Paoletti, D., Banfi, S., Finelli, F., Gheller, C., O’Sullivan, S. P., & Brüggen, M.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3532)