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后发区8 $\arcdeg$到3 $\arcmin$尺度上新的微弱射电辐射的发现及一些银河系和河外星系的意义

Discovery of new faint radio emission on 8$\arcdeg$ to 3$\arcmin$ scales in the Coma field, and some Galactic and extragalactic implications

P. P. Kronberg, R. Kothes, C. J. Salter, P. Perillat

摘要:

我们提出了一个深,8 $\degr$直径,0.4 GHz的无线电图像使用的第一时间组合的美国宇航局阿雷西博305米望远镜在波多黎各,和广角干涉仪在自治领射电天体物理观测站在彭蒂克顿,加拿大。我们的观测集中在北银河系极点附近的“长城”星系中的后发星系团。这两种仪器的互补性使我们能够产生无失真的图像,该图像对从8 $\degr$到长城距离100 Mpc处的单个星系晕的辐射敏感。新发现的分布式无线电“辉光”补丁远远高于检测极限。一个突出的这样的区域与后发座星系团附近的射电星系群相吻合,并表明星系际IGM磁场的范围在0.2到0.4 $μ$ G,尺度高达$\sim$ 4 Mpc。以前在这些高纬度地区没有在弧分尺度上探索过的其他弥散发射斑块可能包含银河系的“卷云”。在低水平漫射射电辉光和某些增强的光学星系表面密度之间发现了一个惊人的关系,表明宇宙大尺度结构(LSS),通常由重子(或暗)物质密度定义,是不是{ \it唯一}跟踪微弱的连续射电辉光。相反,星系际漫射同步辐射代表IGM磁场和宇宙射线能量密度,而不是物质密度。在高多极尺度上,大范围天空中弥漫的弧分级结构是CMB前景辐射的潜在重要探路者。

英文摘要:

We present a deep, 8$\degr$ diameter, 0.4 GHz radio image using a first time combination of the NAIC Arecibo 305-m telescope in Puerto Rico, and the wide-angle interferometer at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory at Penticton, Canada. Our observations are centered on the Coma Cluster of galaxies in the ``Great Wall'' of galaxies near the North Galactic Pole. The complementary nature of these two instruments enables us to produce a distortion-free image that is sensitive to radiation on scales from 8$\degr$ down to that of an individual galaxy halo at the 100 Mpc distance of the Great Wall. Newly revealed patches of distributed radio ``glow'' are seen well above the detection limit. One prominent such area coincides with groupings of radio galaxies near the Coma cluster, and indicates intergalactic IGM magnetic fields in the range 0.2 to 0.4 $μ$G on scales of up to $\sim$ 4 Mpc. Other patches of diffuse emission, not previously explored at these high latitudes on arcminute scales, probably contain Galactic ``cirrus''. A striking anticorrelation is found between low-level diffuse radio glow and some regions of enhanced optical galaxy surface density, suggesting that cosmological Large Scale Structure (LSS), normally defined by the baryonic (or dark) matter density, is not {\it uniquely} traced by faint continuum radio glow. Rather, intergalactic diffuse synchrotron radiation represents IGM magnetic and Cosmic ray energy density, instead of matter density. The diffuse, arcminute-level structures over a large region of sky are potentially important pathfinders to CMB foreground radiation on high multipole scales.

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