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红移z=0.692的星系中的84 microGauss磁场

An 84 microGauss Magnetic Field in a Galaxy at Redshift z=0.692

Arthur M. Wolfe, Regina A. Jorgenson, Timothy Robishaw, Carl Heiles, Jason X. Prochaska

摘要:

遍布银河系的磁场是星际介质的重要组成部分:它调节着星际云的动力学、宇宙射线的能量密度以及恒星的形成。与电离星际气体有关的场是通过对银河系中的双星的观测而确定的。脉冲色散和线偏振面旋转的射频测量,即,法拉第旋转,产生平均值B ~ 3微高斯。高红移类星体发射的线偏振光的法拉第旋转可能被探测到,这表明在红移z > 1的前景星系中也存在类似的磁场。然而,由于法拉第旋转本身既不能决定磁场的大小,也不能决定其红移,因此星系磁场在红移z > 0时的强度仍然不确定。在这里,我们报告的磁场B ~ 84微高斯在一个星系中的z =0.692,使用相同的塞曼分裂技术,揭示了一个平均值B = 6微高斯在中性星际气体的银河系的测量。这是出乎意料的,因为磁场产生的主要理论,平均场发电机模型,预测大规模的磁场在过去会更弱,而不是更强。

英文摘要:

The magnetic field pervading our Galaxy is a crucial constituent of the interstellar medium: it mediates the dynamics of interstellar clouds, the energy density of cosmic rays, and the formation of stars. The field associated with ionized interstellar gas has been determined through observations of pulsars in our Galaxy. Radio-frequency measurements of pulse dispersion and the rotation of the plane of linear polarization, i.e., Faraday rotation, yield an average value B ~ 3 microGauss. The possible detection of Faraday rotation of linearly polarized photons emitted by high-redshift quasars suggests similar magnetic fields are present in foreground galaxies with redshifts z > 1. As Faraday rotation alone, however, determines neither the magnitude nor the redshift of the magnetic field, the strength of galactic magnetic fields at redshifts z > 0 remains uncertain. Here we report a measurement of a magnetic field of B ~ 84 microGauss in a galaxy at z =0.692, using the same Zeeman-splitting technique that revealed an average value of B = 6 microGauss in the neutral interstellar gas of our Galaxy. This is unexpected, as the leading theory of magnetic field generation, the mean-field dynamo model, predicts large-scale magnetic fields to be weaker in the past rather than stronger.

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