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
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