Polish contribution to E-LOFAR

Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków

Uniwersytet im. Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń

Centrum Badań Kosmicznych PAN, Warszawa

Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Szczecin

Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Zielona Góra

Centrum Astronomiczne Mikołaja Kopernika, Warszawa, Toruń

PIONIER

Tuellmann, Soida, Dettmar, Urbanik et al. 2000, A&A 364, L36

Chyży et al. in prep.

Magnetism in galactic haloes

Investigation of magnetic fields in low-brightness outer parts of haloes and in extraplanar outflows of spiral galaxies

Uni – Kraków, KSP Cosmic Magnetism

PolarizationChyży et al. in prep.

HI – Meurer et al. 1996 NGC 2915 similar to IC10

Magnetism of dwarf galaxies

Uni – Kraków, KSP Cosmic Magnetism

A search for magnetic fields in the envelopes (steep-spectrum emission +RM synthesis)

X-rays – Trinchieri et al. 2005 A&A 444, 697

Sulentic et al. 2001

To the HI tail

Soida et al. in prep. Magnetism of galaxy groups

Uni – Kraków, KSP Cosmic Magnetism

A search for magnetic fields in tidal tails and intergalactic space via steep-spectrum emission

Intergalactic fields in clusters of galaxies – RM of backgr. sources

Example- Virgo Cluster, Knapik et al. (project in progress)

Greyscale: X-rays from Boehringer et al.

Circles: our sources with first RM results shown

Magnetism of Clusters of galaxies

Uni – Kraków, KSP Cosmic Magnetism

3C223

Faded components

New components

3C403FIRST 1.4 GHz

30”

MERLIN 5GHz

0.4”

An example of Core Dominated Triple (CDT)

Marecki et a l .2006 A&A .448 479

Classical X-shaped sources.

Active Galactic Nuclei - AGN•Observing large samples of radio structures

•AGN evolution at larger z

Uni-Toruń, Uni-Szczecin, Suitable KSP – Deep Extragalactic SurveysAll images courtesy Dr. A. Marecki

Prematurely faded sources – small size, steep spectra, no hotspots

Kunert-Bajraszewska M., Marecki A. et al. (2005), A&A 440, 93Images courtesy Dr A. Marecki

AGN – Part 2

•Activity of M-type dwarfs

• Magnetospheric radio emission from extrasolar giant planets

(Uni Szczecin, CAMK - Toruń). Suitable Key Project 'Transient Sources'.

Image courtesy dr Inga Nielsen, Uni-Hamburg

Exosuns & exoplanets

image credit : SOHO Consortium, ESA, NASA

Our Sun & its planets

LOFAR-LOIS:

•coronal mass ejections,

•bow shock and the Earth’s magnetopause,

•plasma diagnostics in Earth’s vicinity

(Space Research Centre – Warsaw)

Nonthermal radio emission from Jupiter (CAMK – Toruń).

Suitable Key Project 'Transient Sources'.

Monitoring of extensive air showers (Uni Szczecin). Key Project 'Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays'

Image from the Wikimedia Commons

Pulsars

The turnover in pulsar spectra: absorption in the magnetosphere, loss of radiation efficiency or interstellar effect?

Drifting subpulses - observed in a single pulse mode

The multifrequency pulsar timing.

ionized component of the interstellar medium studied via pulsar dispersion measure variability

All topics: Uni – Zielona Góra