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从极化图研究ISM磁场和湍流状态

Studying ISM magnetic fields and turbulent regimes from polarimetric maps

D. Falceta-Goncalves, A. Lazarian, G. Kowal

摘要:

极化异构图已被用于分子云中磁场的表征。然而,很难从投影图确定这些区域的三维特性。在这种情况下,数值模拟可以用作偏振测量的基准,并最终揭示更多关于湍流和磁场线的相互作用。在这项工作中,我们提供了一些湍流分子云的MHD数值模拟,并创建了他们的合成尘埃发射偏振图,改变观察者的方向。我们确定了模拟模型的发射强度和偏振度的相关性。我们能够再现在密度较高的区域的偏振度的衰减,而无需任何假设的尘埃成分的属性。反相关性产生于沿视线的极化矢量的简单抵消。随着磁场配置变得更加复杂,这种效应在更密集的区域内被放大。研究了偏振角的概率分布、功率谱和结构函数。这些统计分析表明,强烈的差异取决于湍流状态(即亚/超音速和亚/超阿尔文)。因此,这些方法可以用于偏振观测来表征分子云的动力学。我们还提出了一种改进的计算局域磁场的方法。所提出的配方没有显示出关于取向或湍流状态的限制。

英文摘要:

Polarimeric maps have been used on the characterization of the magnetic field in molecular clouds. However, it is difficult to determine the 3-dimensional properties of these regions from the projected maps. In that case, numerical simulations can be used as benchmarks for polarimetric measurements, and evetually reveal more about the interplay of turbulence and the magnetic field lines. In this work we provide a number of MHD numerical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds and created their synthetic dust emission polarization maps, varying the direction of the observer. We determined the correlation of emission intensity and polarization degree for the simulated models. We were able to reproduce the decay on polarization degree at denser regions without any assumption regarding the properties of the dusty component. The anti-correlation arises from the simple cancelation of the polarization vectors along the line of sight. This effect is amplified within denser regions as the magnetic field configuration becomes more complex. We studied the probability distribution, the power spectrum and the structure function of the polarization angles. These statistical analysis revealed strong defferences depending on the turbulent regime (i.e. sub/supersonic and sub/super-Alfvenic). Therefore, these methods can be used on polarimetric observations to characterize the dynamics of molecular clouds. We also presented a modified Chandrashekhar-Fermi method to obtain the intensity of the local magnetic field. The proposed formulation showed no limitations regarding orientation or turbulent regime.

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