Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Exploring Astrophysics and happy holidays to everyone! Today I am joined by Dr Gina Panopoulou, an observational astrophysicist at Chalmers University of Technology who specializes in mapping out the magnetic field of our galaxy.
In this episode, Dr Panopoulou spoke about how every galaxy has a magnetic field, and by using the polarisation of light we are able to map the structure of this field in our galaxy. We talked about the difficulties of doing this, including the limited information the polarisation of light can convey and how hard it is to check the accuracy of any results.