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粒子排列效率对分子云合成尘埃偏振观测的影响

Effects of Grain Alignment Efficiency on Synthetic Dust Polarization Observations of Molecular Clouds

Patrick K. King, Che-Yu Chen, Laura M. Fissel, Zhi-Yun Li

摘要:

磁排列尘埃粒子的偏振连续辐射在很大程度上取决于尘埃粒子的局部磁场结构。然而,所观察到的显着的极化分数和列密度之间的关系可能会受到强烈的影响,甚至可能占主导地位的变化,在晶粒排列效率与当地条件,在一个空间均匀的晶粒排列效率的标准假设相反。在这里,我们介绍了一种通用的方法,将异质晶粒对齐到分子云的合成偏振观测,通过一个简单的模型,其中晶粒对齐效率取决于当地的气体密度作为一个幂律。我们证明该模型使用来自辐射扭矩对准理论的结果。介绍了幂律非均匀排列模式对模拟分子云合成观测的影响。我们发现,极化分数柱密度相关可以通过非均匀排列与观测确定的值达成一致,虽然仍然存在退化与云尺度磁化湍流的相对强度和相对于观测者的平均磁场取向。我们还发现,在偏振角偏振分数相关的色散保持鲁棒相关,尽管同时变化的两个观测值的存在下,异质对齐。

英文摘要:

It is well known that the polarized continuum emission from magnetically aligned dust grains is determined to a large extent by local magnetic field structure. However, the observed significant anticorrelation between polarization fraction and column density may be strongly affected, perhaps even dominated by variations in grain alignment efficiency with local conditions, in contrast to standard assumptions of a spatially homogeneous grain alignment efficiency. Here we introduce a generic way to incorporate heterogeneous grain alignment into synthetic polarization observations of molecular clouds, through a simple model where the grain alignment efficiency depends on the local gas density as a power-law. We justify the model using results derived from radiative torque alignment theory. The effects of power-law heterogeneous alignment models on synthetic observations of simulated molecular clouds are presented. We find that the polarization fraction-column density correlation can be brought into agreement with observationally determined values through heterogeneous alignment, though there remains degeneracy with the relative strength of cloud-scale magnetized turbulence and the mean magnetic field orientation relative to the observer. We also find that the dispersion in polarization angles-polarization fraction correlation remains robustly correlated despite the simultaneous changes to both observables in the presence of heterogeneous alignment.

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