Speaker
Marcus Brüggen
(Uni Hamburg)
Description
Observations with LOFAR and other radio telescopes have revealed a plethora of filamentary structures in the sky. From the centre of the Milky Way out to radio galaxies, radio relics and other structures. These synchrotron filaments yield important information about the underlying magnetohydrodynamical turbulence, e.g. the intermittency of magnetic fields. At some scale these fields are dynamically important, as we now begin to learn. The turbulent fields can also be probed with Faraday rotation measurements. In this talk I describe a wide range of new observations that show that we are entering a new era of radio astronomy. A comparison with the latest generation of MHD simulations tells us about turbulence on a large range of scales.
Primary author
Marcus Brüggen
(Uni Hamburg)
