ViCTORIA project: A pilot study of the M49 region in the Virgo cluster in polarisation

arXiv:2609.35330 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/a-benati/ViMS

Terminology

• Calibration — 90× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Rotation Measure — 8× in this paper
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cold front — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Median Absolute Deviation — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Rotation Measure Analysis of Shocks and Sloshing Fronts in a Galaxy Cluster Merger Simulation
• The MeerKAT Fornax Survey VII. Characterisation of the Fornax cluster's magnetic field and new insights on magnetisation in large scale systems
• RM-Tools: Software for Analyzing Polarized Radio Spectra

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