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用甚大天线阵新的旋转测量观测模拟银盘中的磁场

Modeling the Magnetic Field in the Galactic Disk using New Rotation Measure Observations from the Very Large Array

Cameron Van Eck, Jo-Anne Brown, Jeroen Stil, Kyle Rae, Sui Ann Mao, Bryan Gaensler, Anvar Shukurov, Russ Taylor, Marijke Haverkorn, Phil Kronberg, Naomi McClure-Griffiths

摘要:

我们已经确定了194法拉第旋转措施(RM)的极化河外射电源使用新的,多通道的极化观测频率约1.4 GHz的甚大阵列(VLA)在银河平面的$17^\circ \leq l \leq 63^\circ$和$205^\circ \leq l \leq 253^\circ$。该星表填补了加拿大银道面巡天和南方银道面巡天之间在银道面RM覆盖范围上的空白。使用这个目录,我们已经测试了最近提出的大尺度(或规则)银河系磁场的轴对称和双对称模型的有效性,并发现我们测试的现有模型中,一个轴对称的螺旋模型与逆转发生在环(而不是沿着螺旋臂)最符合我们的观察。在此基础上,我们进行了自己的建模,使用来自河外源和星系的RM。通过建立银河系内外磁场的独立模型,我们得出结论:在内银河系中,磁场紧密地跟随着旋臂,而在外银河系中,磁场则与纯方位角磁场一致。此外,这些模型在外银河系中不包含反转,它们共同表明存在一个从银河系中心螺旋向外的反转区域。

英文摘要:

We have determined 194 Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic radio sources using new, multi-channel polarization observations at frequencies around 1.4 GHz from the Very Large Array (VLA) in the Galactic plane at $17^\circ \leq l \leq 63^\circ$ and $205^\circ \leq l \leq 253^\circ$. This catalog fills in gaps in the RM coverage of the Galactic plane between the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey and Southern Galactic Plane Survey. Using this catalog we have tested the validity of recently-proposed axisymmetric and bisymmetric models of the large-scale (or regular) Galactic magnetic field, and found that of the existing models we tested, an axisymmetric spiral model with reversals occurring in rings (as opposed to along spiral arms) best matched our observations. Building on this, we have performed our own modeling, using RMs from both extragalactic sources and pulsars. By developing independent models for the magnetic field in the outer and inner Galaxy, we conclude that in the inner Galaxy, the magnetic field closely follows the spiral arms, while in the outer Galaxy, the field is consistent with being purely azimuthal.Furthermore, the models contain no reversals in the outer Galaxy, and together seem to suggest the existence of a single reversed region that spirals out from the Galactic center.

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