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小麦哲伦云磁场的射电偏振研究

A Radio Polarisation Study of Magnetic Fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud

J. D. Livingston, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. A. Mao, Y. K. Ma, B. M. Gaensler, G. Heald, A. Seta

摘要:

观测低质量相互作用星系的磁场,可以告诉我们它们是如何在宇宙时间内演化的,以及它们在星系演化中的重要性。我们用澳大利亚CSIRO望远镜紧凑阵(ATCA)测量了小麦哲伦云(SMC)后80个河外射电源的法拉第旋转,频率范围为1.4 - 3.0GHz。无论是我们的观测灵敏度和源密度是一个数量级的改进,以前的法拉第旋转测量这个星系。SMC一般产生负旋转措施(RM)后,占银河系前景的贡献,表明它有一个平均相干视线磁场强度$-0.3\pm0.1μ$ G,与以前的研究结果一致。我们探测到了从SMC沙洲南北延伸的磁场的特征。SMC磁场的随机分量具有$\sim 5μ$ G的强度,具有磁离子湍流$< 250$ pc的特征尺寸尺度,使得SMC像其他低质量相互作用星系一样。SMC和麦哲伦桥的磁场在方向和强度上看起来相似,暗示这两个磁场之间的联系是假设的“泛麦哲伦”磁场的一部分。

英文摘要:

Observing the magnetic fields of low-mass interacting galaxies tells us how they have evolved over cosmic time and their importance in galaxy evolution. We have measured the Faraday rotation of 80 extra-galactic radio sources behind the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) with a frequency range of 1.4 -- 3.0 GHz. Both the sensitivity of our observations and the source density are an order of magnitude improvement on previous Faraday rotation measurements of this galaxy. The SMC generally produces negative rotation measures (RMs) after accounting for the Milky Way foreground contribution, indicating that it has a mean coherent line-of-sight magnetic field strength of $-0.3\pm0.1μ$G, consistent with previous findings. We detect signatures of magnetic fields extending from the north and south of the Bar of the SMC. The random component of the SMC magnetic field has a strength of $\sim 5μ$G with a characteristic size-scale of magneto-ionic turbulence $< 250$ pc, making the SMC like other low-mass interacting galaxies. The magnetic fields of the SMC and Magellanic Bridge appear similar in direction and strength, hinting at a connection between the two fields as part of the hypothesised `pan-Magellanic' magnetic field.

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