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南银道面后河外源的旋转测量:对内Milky Way大尺度磁场的新认识

Rotation Measures of Extragalactic Sources Behind the Southern Galactic Plane: New Insights into the Large-Scale Magnetic Field of the Inner Milky Way

J. C. Brown, M. Haverkorn, B. M. Gaensler, A. R. Taylor, N. S. Bizunok, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, J. M. Dickey, A. J. Green

摘要:

我们提出了新的法拉第旋转措施(RM)的148河外射电源在银河系南平面(253 o < l <356 o,|b| <1.5 o),并使用这些数据结合已公布的数据来探测银河系的大尺度结构的磁场。我们表明,这些RM的幅度振荡与经度的方式,与银河系旋臂的位置。观测到的RM模式要求在银河系第四象限中至少存在一次大规模的磁反转,位于人马座-船底座和盾牌座-十字座螺旋臂之间。定量比较我们的测量结果与其他最近的研究,我们认为所有可用的河外和脉冲星RM在该地区,我们已经调查,并共同拟合这些数据的简单模型中,大规模的字段如下的旋臂。在最佳拟合模型中,银河系第四象限的磁场在人马座-船底座旋臂中是顺时针方向的(从银河系北极看),但在盾牌座-十字臂中是逆时针方向的。这与最近对脉冲星RM单独的分析形成对比,其中第四象限场被假定为在人马座-船底座臂中逆时针方向。也与最近的脉冲星RM研究相反,我们对脉冲星和河外RM的联合建模表明,不需要大量的大规模磁场反转来解释观测结果。

英文摘要:

We present new Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for 148 extragalactic radio sources behind the southern Galactic plane (253o < l < 356o, |b| < 1.5o), and use these data in combination with published data to probe the large-scale structure of the Milky Way's magnetic field. We show that the magnitudes of these RMs oscillate with longitude in a manner that correlates with the locations of the Galactic spiral arms. The observed pattern in RMs requries the presence of at least one large-scale magnetic reversal in the fourth Galactic quadrant, located between the Sagittarius- Carina and Scutum-Crux spiral arms. To quantitatively compare our measurements to other recent studies, we consider all available extragalactic and pulsar RMs in the region we have surveyed, and jointly fit these data to simple models in which the large-scale field follows the spiral arms. In the best-fitting model, the magnetic field in the fourth Galactic quadrant is directed clockwise in the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm (as viewed from the North Galactic pole), but is oriented counter- clockwise in the Scutum-Crux arm. This contrasts with recent analyses of pulsar RMs alone, in which the fourth-quadrant field was presumed to be directed counter-clockwise in the Sagittarius- Carina arm. Also in contrast to recent pulsar RM studies, our joint modeling of pulsar and extragalactic RMs demonstrates that large numbers of large-scale magnetic field reversals are not required to account for observations.

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