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磁电离银河系星际介质中turbulence的外尺度

The outer scale of turbulence in the magneto-ionized Galactic interstellar medium

M. Haverkorn, J. C. Brown, B. M. Gaensler, N. M. McClure-Griffiths

摘要:

我们分析了银河系外射电点源在内银道面方向的法拉第旋转和去极化,以确定旋转测量功率谱的外尺度和幅度。结构函数的旋转措施显示较低的幅度比预期外推电子密度波动到大尺度假设柯尔莫哥洛夫谱指数。这意味着这些波动的外部尺度大约是秒差距,比通常假设的要小得多。点源的部分去极化的分析独立地表明一个小的外部尺度的柯尔莫哥洛夫功率谱。在银河系的旋臂中,没有测量到超过几个秒差距尺度的旋转测量波动。在臂间区域的波动在更大的尺度上比在螺旋臂,并表现出幂律行为与浅谱。这些结果表明,在旋臂恒星源,如恒星风或原恒星外流占主导地位的能量注入的湍流能量级联的秒差距尺度上,而在旋臂间区域超新星和超级气泡爆炸是主要的能量来源的尺度上的顺序为100秒差距。

英文摘要:

We analyze Faraday rotation and depolarization of extragalactic radio point sources in the direction of the inner Galactic plane to determine the outer scale and amplitude of the rotation measure power spectrum. Structure functions of rotation measure show lower amplitudes than expected when extrapolating electron density fluctuations to large scales assuming a Kolmogorov spectral index. This implies an outer scale of those fluctuations on the order of a parsec, much smaller than commonly assumed. Analysis of partial depolarization of point sources independently indicates a small outer scale of a Kolmogorov power spectrum. In the Galaxy's spiral arms, no rotation measure fluctuations on scales above a few parsecs are measured. In the interarm regions fluctuations on larger scales than in spiral arms are present, and show power law behavior with a shallow spectrum. These results suggest that in the spiral arms stellar sources such as stellar winds or protostellar outflows dominate the energy injection for the turbulent energy cascade on parsec scales, while in the interarm regions supernova and super bubble explosions are the main sources of energy on scales on the order of 100 parsecs.

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