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MDPI, Galaxies, 4(6), p. 128, 2018

DOI: 10.3390/galaxies6040128

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The Challenge of Detecting Intracluster Filaments with Faraday Rotation

Journal article published in 2018 by Nicola Locatelli, Franco Vazza ORCID, Paola Domínguez-Fernández
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The detection of filaments in the cosmic web will be crucial to distinguish between the possible magnetogenesis scenarios, and future large polarization surveys will be able to shed light on their magnetization level. In this work, we use numerical simulations of galaxy clusters to investigate their possible detection. We compute the Faraday Rotation signal in intracluster filaments and compare it to its surrounding environment. We find that the expected big improvement in sensitivity with the SKA-MID will in principle allow the detection of a large fraction of filaments surrounding galaxy clusters. However, the contamination of the intrinsic Faraday Rotation of background polarized sources will represent a big limiter to the number of objects that can be significantly detected. We discuss possible strategies to minimize this effect and increase the chances of detection of the cosmic web with the large statistics expected from future surveys.

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