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磁场层析成像、螺旋磁场和法拉第去极化

Magnetic field tomography, helical magnetic fields and Faraday depolarization

Cathy Horellou, Andrew Fletcher

摘要:

宽带射电偏振观测提供了恢复同步加速器源中磁场信息的可能性,例如它们的三维结构的细节,这是以前无法获得的。所涉及的关键物理过程是源中偏振发射的法拉第旋转(以及沿波传播路径到观察者的其他地方)。为了继续进行,需要可靠的方法将波长空间中观察到的信号转换为法拉第空间中的有用数据,并对其不确定性进行稳健的估计。在本文中,我们研究的变化的固有角的偏振发射$ψ_{0}$与法拉第深度$ϕ$内的源影响的可观测量。使用简单的模型的法拉第色散$F(ϕ)$和$ψ_{0}(ϕ)$,随着当前和计划的主要无线电干涉仪的属性,我们演示了如何退化之间的参数描述的磁离子介质可以通过结合在不同波段的观测最小化。我们还讨论了如何去极化法拉第色散由于随机分量的磁场衰减的偏振的光谱能量分布的变化,并将其峰值向更短的波长。这种附加效应降低了恢复由磁场的湍流分量主导的磁离子介质中的磁场螺旋度的特性的前景。

英文摘要:

Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The key physical process involved is the Faraday rotation of the polarized emission in the source (and elsewhere along the wave's propagation path to the observer). In order to proceed, reliable methods are required for inverting the signals observed in wavelength space into useful data in Faraday space, with robust estimates of their uncertainty. In this paper, we examine how variations of the intrinsic angle of polarized emission $ψ_{0}$ with the Faraday depth $ϕ$ within a source affect the observable quantities. Using simple models for the Faraday dispersion $F(ϕ)$ and $ψ_{0}(ϕ)$, along with the current and planned properties of the main radio interferometers, we demonstrate how degeneracies among the parameters describing the magneto-ionic medium can be minimised by combining observations in different wavebands. We also discuss how depolarization by Faraday dispersion due to a random component of the magnetic field attenuates the variations in the spectral energy distribution of the polarization and shifts its peak towards shorter wavelengths. This additional effect reduces the prospect of recovering the characteristics of the magnetic field helicity in magneto-ionic media dominated by the turbulent component of the magnetic field.

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