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模拟大尺度银河系磁场的物理方法

A physical approach to modelling large-scale galactic magnetic fields

Anvar Shukurov, Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues, Paul J. Bushby, James Hollins, Jorg P. Rachen

摘要:

一个方便的表示的大规模银河系磁场的结构是需要在亚毫米和无线电范围内的偏振数据的解释,在银河系和外部星系。我们开发了一个简单而灵活的方法来构建银河系和其他盘星系的大尺度磁场的参数化模型,物理合理的模型的基础上磁场结构。由此产生的模型旨在根据现有的观测数据进行优化。本文用级数展开的形式给出了盘状星系的耀斑盘和球晕中的大尺度磁场的表达式,其系数可由观测到的或理论上已知的星系性质计算。展开的功能基础是作为本征函数的平均场发电机方程或矢量磁扩散方程。所提出的解决方案是轴对称的,但该方法可以直接扩展到非轴对称的情况下。磁场的结构是螺线管形的,可以是螺旋形的,并且根据主对象的可观察特性(诸如旋转曲线和气体盘的形状)来参数化。圆盘中的磁场可以在任何指定半径处具有规定数量的场反转。圆盘和晕圈磁场可以分别具有偶极或四极对称性。该模型被实现为一个公开可用的软件包GalMag,它允许,特别是,同步辐射和法拉第旋转模型的磁场产生的计算。该模型可用于解释观测的磁场在银河系和其他螺旋星系,特别是作为一个先验的贝叶斯分析。(节录)

英文摘要:

A convenient representation of the structure of the large-scale galactic magnetic field is required for the interpretation of polarization data in the sub-mm and radio ranges, in both the Milky Way and external galaxies. We develop a simple and flexible approach to construct parametrised models of the large-scale magnetic field of the Milky Way and other disc galaxies, based on physically justifiable models of magnetic field structure. The resulting models are designed to be optimised against available observational data. Representations for the large-scale magnetic fields in the flared disc and spherical halo of a disc galaxy were obtained in the form of series expansions whose coefficients can be calculated from observable or theoretically known galactic properties. The functional basis for the expansions is derived as eigenfunctions of the mean-field dynamo equation or of the vectorial magnetic diffusion equation. The solutions presented are axially symmetric but the approach can be extended straightforwardly to non-axisymmetric cases. The magnetic fields are solenoidal by construction, can be helical, and are parametrised in terms of observable properties of the host object, such as the rotation curve and the shape of the gaseous disc. The magnetic field in the disc can have a prescribed number of field reversals at any specified radii. Both the disc and halo magnetic fields can separately have either dipolar or quadrupolar symmetry. The model is implemented as a publicly available software package GalMag which allows, in particular, the computation of the synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation produced by the model's magnetic field. The model can be used in interpretations of observations of magnetic fields in the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies, in particular as a prior in Bayesian analyses. (Abridged.)

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