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arXiv 2006.09369astro-ph.GA
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环银河系介质中的约束磁场

Constraining Magnetic Fields in the Circumgalactic Medium

Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska

摘要:

通过将$\sim 1,000$高红移射电源的法拉第旋转测量值与DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys估计的前景星系数密度相关联,研究了$z<1$星系环星系介质(CGM)中磁场的性质。这种方法使我们能够提取信号的旋转措施所贡献的干预气体周围的多个星系。我们的研究结果表明,有没有可检测的旋转措施的分布和前景星系的数量之间的相关性,与以前的几个结果。利用非检测信号,我们根据$\sim 20 \rm \ rad/m^{2}$的CGM(约50 kpc以内)和$\sim 10 \rm \ rad / m^{2}$(间距为$100$ kpc)估计了$3σ$旋转测量的上限。采用由吸收线测量得到的电离气体的柱密度分布,我们进一步估计了CGM中平行于$<\rm 2 \ μG$视线的相干磁场的强度。我们发现,估计的上限旋转措施和磁场强度是足以约束最近的星系磁流体动力学模拟的输出。最后,我们讨论了我们的结果和以前的作品之间的不一致的可能原因。

英文摘要:

We study the properties of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $z<1$ galaxies by correlating Faraday rotation measures of $\sim 1,000$ high-redshift radio sources with the foreground galaxy number density estimated from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. This method enables us to extract signals of rotation measures contributed by intervening gas around multiple galaxies. Our results show that there is no detectable correlation between the distribution of rotation measures and the number of foreground galaxies, contrary to several previous results. Utilizing the non-detection signals, we estimate $3σ$ upper limits to the rotation measures from the CGM of $\sim 20 \rm \ rad/m^{2}$ within~50 kpc and $\sim 10 \rm \ rad / m^{2}$ at separations of $100$ kpc. By adopting a column density distribution of ionized gas obtained from absorption line measurements, we further estimate the strengths of coherent magnetic fields parallel to the line of sight of $<\rm 2 \ μG$ in the CGM. We show that the estimated upper limits of rotation measures and magnetic field strengths are sufficient to constrain outputs of recent galaxy magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Finally, we discuss possible causes for the inconsistency between our results and previous works.

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