Collage showing 9 galaxies with streamlines from the SALSA program
Magnetic Fields - A Ubiquitous Part of Galaxy Ecosystems
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The magnetic fields of spiral (M51, M83, NGC 3627, NGC 7331), starburst (M82, NGC 2146), active galactic nuclei (NGC 1068 and Centaurus A), and merging (Antennae galaxies) galaxies obtained by SALSA (Survey of extragALactic magnetiSm with SOFIA). Results are published in The Astrophysical Journal ( SALSA IV: Lopez-Rodriguez et al. ).

Credit
M82: NASA/SOFIA/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NASA/Spitzer/J. Moustakas et al.; NGC 1068: NASA/SOFIA; NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.; M51: (NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)); Centaurus A: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al.; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; SOFIA; Antennae galaxies: ESA/Hubble & NASA/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NGC 3627: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NGC 2146: ESA/Hubble & NASA/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; M83: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NGC 7331: Vicent Peris, CC BY-SA 2.0/E. Lopez-Rodriguez
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SCI2022_0012