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银河系的磁结构:观测综述

Magnetic structure of our Galaxy: A review of observations

J. L. Han

摘要:

银河系中心、银盘和星系晕的磁结构比以往任何时候都更清晰。在银盘中,磁结构已被揭示的星光偏振在2或3 kpc的太阳附近,由分布的塞曼分裂的OH脉泽在两个或三个附近的旋臂,和脉冲星色散措施和旋转措施,在近一半的磁盘。云的红外、毫米和亚毫米波段的偏振热尘埃辐射和弥散同步辐射也与盘内的大尺度磁场有关。在银河系低纬地区,河外射电源的自转测量可以用电子分布和大尺度磁场来模拟。利用旋转测量数据和偏振测量数据研究了磁化星际介质在不同尺度下的统计特性。在银河系中心,非热灯丝指示极向场。关于场强没有共识,也许是mG,也许是几十uG。背景射电源的偏振尘埃辐射和增强的旋转测量可能与环向场有关。在星系晕中,反对称的RM天空揭示了在银道面上方和下方方向相反的大尺度环形场。来自银河系各个部分的磁场连接在一起,形成一个全球性的磁场结构。需要更多的观测来探索未被触及的区域,并描绘出不同部分的场是如何连接的。

英文摘要:

The magnetic structure in the Galactic disk, the Galactic center and the Galactic halo can be delineated more clearly than ever before. In the Galactic disk, the magnetic structure has been revealed by starlight polarization within 2 or 3 kpc of the Solar vicinity, by the distribution of the Zeeman splitting of OH masers in two or three nearby spiral arms, and by pulsar dispersion measures and rotation measures in nearly half of the disk. The polarized thermal dust emission of clouds at infrared, mm and submm wavelengths and the diffuse synchrotron emission are also related to the large-scale magnetic field in the disk. The rotation measures of extragalactic radio sources at low Galactic latitudes can be modeled by electron distributions and large-scale magnetic fields. The statistical properties of the magnetized interstellar medium at various scales have been studied using rotation measure data and polarization data. In the Galactic center, the non-thermal filaments indicate poloidal fields. There is no consensus on the field strength, maybe mG, maybe tens of uG. The polarized dust emission and much enhanced rotation measures of background radio sources are probably related to toroidal fields. In the Galactic halo, the antisymmetric RM sky reveals large-scale toroidal fields with reversed directions above and below the Galactic plane. Magnetic fields from all parts of our Galaxy are connected to form a global field structure. More observations are needed to explore the untouched regions and delineate how fields in different parts are connected.

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