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线偏振辐射研究的高级诊断学。II:在星际射电同步辐射中的应用

Advanced Diagnostics for the Study of Linearly Polarized Emission. II: Application to Diffuse Interstellar Radio Synchrotron Emission

C. A. Herron, Blakesley Burkhart, B. M. Gaensler, G. F. Lewis, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, G. Bernardi, E. Carretti, M. Haverkorn, M. Kesteven, S. Poppi, L. Staveley-Smith

摘要:

偏振辐射的诊断为我们提供了关于银河磁场和星际介质中湍流状态的有价值的信息,这些信息不能单独从同步辐射强度中获得。在论文I(Herron等人,2017 b)中,我们推导出了在$Q$-$U$平面中旋转和旋转不变的偏振诊断,类似于偏振梯度。在本文中,我们应用这些诊断模拟的理想磁流体动力学湍流,有一个范围内的声波和Alfvénic马赫数。我们为这些模拟生成斯托克斯$Q$和$U$的合成图像,对于湍流被均匀偏振发射从后面照亮的情况,以及偏振发射源自湍流体积内的情况。从这些模拟图像中,我们计算的偏振诊断文件I中得出的,对于不同的视线相对于平均磁场,并为一系列的频率。对于我们所有的模拟,我们发现,极化梯度是非常相似的广义极化梯度,并且都跟踪空间变化的情况下,发射起源于湍流体积内的磁离子介质,只要介质不是超音速。我们提出了一种方法来区分的情况下,从后面或在一个湍流,法拉第旋转介质的发射,和一种方法来部分映射的旋转测量的观察区域。我们还推测这些诊断的统计数据,可以让我们约束所观察到的湍流区域的物理特性。

英文摘要:

Diagnostics of polarized emission provide us with valuable information on the Galactic magnetic field and the state of turbulence in the interstellar medium, which cannot be obtained from synchrotron intensity alone. In Paper I (Herron et al. 2017b), we derived polarization diagnostics that are rotationally and translationally invariant in the $Q$-$U$ plane, similar to the polarization gradient. In this paper, we apply these diagnostics to simulations of ideal magnetohydrodynamic turbulence that have a range of sonic and Alfvénic Mach numbers. We generate synthetic images of Stokes $Q$ and $U$ for these simulations, for the cases where the turbulence is illuminated from behind by uniform polarized emission, and where the polarized emission originates from within the turbulent volume. From these simulated images we calculate the polarization diagnostics derived in Paper I, for different lines of sight relative to the mean magnetic field, and for a range of frequencies. For all of our simulations, we find that the polarization gradient is very similar to the generalized polarization gradient, and that both trace spatial variations in the magnetoionic medium for the case where emission originates within the turbulent volume, provided that the medium is not supersonic. We propose a method for distinguishing the cases of emission coming from behind or within a turbulent, Faraday rotating medium, and a method to partly map the rotation measure of the observed region. We also speculate on statistics of these diagnostics that may allow us to constrain the physical properties of an observed turbulent region.

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