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用数值模拟校准Davis-Prasekhar-Fermi方法:从场方向统计估计磁场强度的不确定性

Calibrating the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method with numerical simulations: uncertainties in estimating the magnetic field strength from statistics of field orientations

Junhao Liu, Qizhou Zhang, Benoit Commercon, Valeska Valdivia, Anaelle Maury, Keping Qiu

摘要:

Davis-Prasekhar-Fermi(DCF)方法被广泛用于从天平面场方向间接估计磁场强度。在这项工作中,我们提出了一套三维MHD模拟和合成偏振图像使用的辐射转移的集群大质量恒星形成的地区。我们将DCF方法应用于合成极化图,以研究其在高密度分子团簇和自引力显著的致密核中的可靠性。我们调查的DCF方法一步一步的假设的有效性,并比较模型和估计的磁场强度,以获得估计的均匀和总(rms)磁场强度在团块和核心尺度的校正因子。对不同情况下的修正系数进行了分类。我们发现DCF方法在强场情况下效果良好。然而,当湍流磁能小于湍流动能时,DCF方法可能会显著高估弱场情况下的磁场强度。我们调查的角度色散函数(ADF,一种改进的DCF方法)的方法的精度的影响,可能会影响测得的角色散,并发现ADF方法正确占有序的字段结构,光束平滑,和干涉滤波,但可能不适用于占沿视线的信号积分在大多数情况下。我们的研究结果表明,DCF方法应避免应用低于$\sim$ 0.1 pc尺度,如果视线信号集成的影响没有得到适当的解决。

英文摘要:

The Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method is widely used to indirectly estimate the magnetic field strength from the plane-of-sky field orientation. In this work, we present a set of 3D MHD simulations and synthetic polarization images using radiative transfer of clustered massive star-forming regions. We apply the DCF method on the synthetic polarization maps to investigate its reliability in high-density molecular clumps and dense cores where self-gravity is significant. We investigate the validity of the assumptions of the DCF method step by step and compare the model and estimated field strength to derive the correction factors for the estimated uniform and total (rms) magnetic field strength at clump and core scales. The correction factors in different situations are catalogued. We find the DCF method works well in strong field cases. However, the magnetic field strength in weak field cases could be significantly overestimated by the DCF method when the turbulent magnetic energy is smaller than the turbulent kinetic energy. We investigate the accuracy of the angular dispersion function (ADF, a modified DCF method) method on the effects that may affect the measured angular dispersion and find that the ADF method correctly accounts for the ordered field structure, the beam-smoothing, and the interferometric filtering, but may not be applicable to account for the signal integration along the line of sight in most cases. Our results suggest that the DCF methods should be avoided to be applied below $\sim$0.1 pc scales if the effect of line-of-sight signal integration is not properly addressed.

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