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用旋转测量测量宇宙磁场-宇宙学模拟中的星系交叉相关

Measuring cosmic magnetic fields by rotation measure-galaxy cross-correlations in cosmological simulations

F. Stasyszyn, S. E. Nuza, K. Dolag, R. Beck, J. Donnert

摘要:

利用宇宙学MHD模拟的星系团和细丝中的磁场,我们评估了通过测量法拉第旋转测度(RM)和星系密度场之间的交叉关联函数来推断细丝中的磁场强度的可能性。我们还测试了最近的估计的可靠性,考虑到当前数据集的数据质量和银河前景(GF)去除的问题。除了两个自洽模拟宇宙学磁场的基础上原始种子场和银河系外流分析这里,我们还探讨了更大范围的模型按比例放大所产生的磁场的模拟之一。我们发现,如果一个非归一化估计的交叉关联函数和GF去除程序被使用,宇宙学信号的可检测性是唯一可能的未来仪器(例如SKA和ASKAP)。然而,将观测到的RM信号映射到宇宙的潜在磁化(在空间和时间上)是一项极具挑战性的任务,这受到我们模型参数的模糊性以及低密度环境中RM信号的弱响应的限制。因此,我们的结论是,目前的数据不能约束的幅度和分布的磁场内的大尺度结构和详细的理论理解的建立和分布的磁场内的宇宙将需要解释未来的观测。

英文摘要:

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) and the galaxy density field. We also test the reliability of recent estimates considering the problem of data quality and Galactic foreground (GF) removal in current datasets. Besides the two self-consistent simulations of cosmological magnetic fields based on primordial seed fields and galactic outflows analyzed here, we also explore a larger range of models scaling up the resulting magnetic fields of one of the simulations. We find that, if an unnormalized estimator for the cross-correlation functions and a GF removal procedure is used, the detectability of the cosmological signal is only possible for future instruments (e.g. SKA and ASKAP). However, mapping of the observed RM signal to the underlying magnetization of the Universe (both in space and time) is an extremely challenging task which is limited by the ambiguities of our model parameters, as well as to the weak response of the RM signal in low density environments. Therefore, we conclude that current data cannot constrain the amplitude and distribution of magnetic fields within the large scale structure and a detailed theoretical understanding of the build up and distribution of magnetic fields within the Universe will be needed for the interpretation of future observations.

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