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星际介质转动测度结构函数的解释

Interpretation of the structure function of rotation measure in the interstellar medium

Siyao Xu, Bing Zhang

摘要:

观测到的旋转测度结构函数(SF)随角尺度的幂律函数变化。其光谱斜率的系统性浅与标准柯尔莫哥洛夫标度不一致。这促使我们研究RM波动的统计分析。Lazarian & Pogosyan(2016)构建的RM相关性通过理论获得的SF结果与观测测量的SF结果之间的直接比较被证明足以解释RM SF的观测特征。通过分离密度涨落和磁场涨落,并对它们的功率谱采用任意指数,我们发现当RM和发射测度的SF在相同的角标度范围内具有相似的形式时,RM涨落的统计特性反映了密度涨落的性质。RM SF可以用来计算沿视线方向的平均磁场,但不能作为星际介质中湍流磁场性质的信息源。我们确定的频谱中断的RM SFs的内部规模的浅谱的电子密度波动,其特征在于在所观察到的区域中的离散电子密度结构的典型尺寸。

英文摘要:

The observed structure function (SF) of rotation measure (RM) varies as a broken power-law function of angular scales. The systematic shallowness of its spectral slope is inconsistent with the standard Kolmogorov scaling. This motivates us to examine the statistical analysis on RM fluctuations. The correlations of RM constructed by Lazarian & Pogosyan (2016) are demonstrated to be adequate in explaining the observed features of RM SFs through a direct comparison between the theoretically obtained and observationally measured SF results. By segregating the density and magnetic field fluctuations and adopting arbitrary indices for their respective power spectra, we find that when the SFs of RM and emission measure have a similar form over the same range of angular scales, the statistics of the RM fluctuations reflect the properties of density fluctuations. RM SFs can be used to evaluate the mean magnetic field along the line of sight, but cannot serve as an informative source on the properties of turbulent magnetic field in the interstellar medium. We identify the spectral break of RM SFs as the inner scale of a shallow spectrum of electron density fluctuations, which characterizes the typical size of discrete electron density structures in the observed region.

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