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河外致密射电源法拉第旋转揭示的大直径HII区磁场

Magnetic Fields in Large Diameter HII Regions Revealed by the Faraday Rotation of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources

Lisa Harvey-Smith, Gregory J. Madsen, Bryan M. Gaensler

摘要:

我们提出了一个研究的视线磁场在五个大直径的银河系HII地区。利用背景偏振射电源的法拉第旋转,以及尘埃校正的H-α表面亮度作为电子密度的探针,我们估计了通过HII区域的93条单独视线上的磁场的强度和方向。每个HII区域都显示出相干的磁场。该区域的磁场强度(视线分量)范围为2至6微高斯,与弥漫星际介质中的典型磁场强度相似。我们研究了磁场强度与5个HII区电子密度的关系。磁场对密度的斜率在低密度区(0.8 <n_e <30每立方厘米)非常略高于零。我们还计算了每个数据点的热压力与磁压力之比beta_th,其范围为1.01 <beta_th <25。最后,我们研究了磁场的方向在太阳附近(d <1.1千秒差距),使用我们的数据从5个HII区域以及现有的测量线的视线磁场强度从极化的恒星,其距离已确定从他们的年度视差。我们确定了一个净方向的磁场在太阳附近,但没有发现一个首选的垂直方向的磁场以上或以下的银河系平面的证据。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the line-of-sight magnetic fields in five large-diameter Galactic HII regions. Using the Faraday rotation of background polarized radio sources, as well as dust-corrected H-alpha surface brightness as a probe of electron density, we estimated the strength and orientation of the magnetic field along 93 individual sight-lines through the HII regions. Each of the HII regions displayed a coherent magnetic field. The magnetic field strength (line-of-sight component) in the regions ranges from 2 to 6 microgauss, which is similar to the typical magnetic field strength in the diffuse interstellar medium. We investigated the relationship between magnetic field strength and electron density in the 5 HII regions. The slope of magnetic field vs. density in the low-density regime (0.8 < n_e < 30 per cubic cm) is very slightly above zero. We also calculated the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure, beta_th, for each data point, which fell in the range 1.01 < beta_th < 25. Finally, we studied the orientation of the magnetic field in the solar neighborhood (d < 1.1 kpc) using our data from 5 HII regions along with existing measurements of the line-of-sight magnetic field strength from polarized pulsars whose distances have been determined from their annual parallax. We identify a net direction for the magnetic field in the solar neighborhood, but find no evidence for a preferred vertical direction of the magnetic field above or below the Galactic plane.

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