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从大样本河外法拉第旋转数据探测星系际磁场的统计技术

Statistical Techniques for Detecting the Intergalactic Magnetic Field from Large Samples of Extragalactic Faraday Rotation Data

Takuya Akahori, B. M. Gaensler, Dongsu Ryu

摘要:

河外射电源旋转测量网格已广泛应用于宇宙磁学研究。但是,它们在探索星系细丝中的星系际磁场(IGMF)方面的潜力还不清楚,因为其他法拉第旋转介质,如射电源本身、居间星系和我们银河系的星际介质都是重要的贡献者。我们研究的统计技术,用于区分法拉第旋转的灯丝从其他来源的法拉第旋转在未来的大规模调查的无线电极化。我们考虑一个30度乘以30度的视场朝向南银河系极点,而在目前和未来的观测中检测到的源的数量不同。我们选择位于高红移的源,并且没有观察到去偏振和光学吸收系统,以便减少来自源和居间星系的RM贡献。据发现,高通滤波器可以令人满意地减少来自银河系的RM的贡献,因为这个组件的角尺度对高银河系纬度将远远大于预期的IGMF。目前的观测还没有提供足够的源密度,以便能够估计细丝的RM。然而,从拟议的方法与即将进行的调查,我们预测显着的残差RM应归因于长丝。IGMF的预测结构下降到0.1度的规模应该是可观察的SKA的数据,如果我们实现的视线不包含干预星系和RM误差小于几个rad m-2的源的选择。

英文摘要:

Rotation measure (RM) grids of extragalactic radio sources have been widely used for studying cosmic magnetism. But their potential for exploring the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in filaments of galaxies is unclear, since other Faraday-rotation media such as the radio source itself, intervening galaxies, and the interstellar medium of our Galaxy are all significant contributors. We study statistical techniques for discriminating the Faraday rotation of filaments from other sources of Faraday rotation in future large-scale surveys of radio polarization. We consider a 30 degree times 30 degree field-of-view toward the south Galactic pole, while varying the number of sources detected in both present and future observations. We select sources located at high redshifts and toward which depolarization and optical absorption systems are not observed, so as to reduce the RM contributions from the sources and intervening galaxies. It is found that a high-pass filter can satisfactorily reduce the RM contribution from the Galaxy, since the angular scale of this component toward high Galactic latitudes would be much larger than that expected for the IGMF. Present observations do not yet provide a sufficient source density to be able to estimate the RM of filaments. However, from the proposed approach with forthcoming surveys, we predict significant residuals of RM that should be ascribable to filaments. The predicted structure of the IGMF down to scales of 0.1 degree should be observable with data from the SKA, if we achieve selections of sources toward which sight lines do not contain intervening galaxies and RM errors are less than a few rad m-2.

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