Synchrotron Emission on the Largest Scales: Radio Detection of the Cosmic-Web
Abstract
Shocks and turbulence generated during large-scale structure formation are predicted to produce large-scale, low surface-brightness synchrotron emission. On the largest scales, this emission is globally correlated with the thermal baryon distribution, and constitutes the 'synchrotron cosmic-web'. I present the observational prospects and challenges for detecting this faint emission with upcoming SKA pathfinders.
- Publication:
-
Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1106.0362
- Bibcode:
- 2011JApA...32..577B
- Keywords:
-
- Relativistic plasmas;
- cosmology: cosmic-web;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 3 figures