Structure in the magnetic field of the milky way disk and halo traced by faraday rotation

JM Dickey, J West, AJM Thomson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
JM Dickey, J West, AJM Thomson, TL Landecker, A Bracco, E Carretti, JL Han, AS Hill…
The Astrophysical Journal, 2022iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic fields in the ionized medium of the disk and halo of the Milky Way impose Faraday
rotation on linearly polarized radio emission. We compare two surveys mapping the Galactic
Faraday rotation, one showing the rotation measures of extragalactic sources seen through
the Galaxy, and one showing Faraday depth of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission
from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey. Comparing the two data sets in 5× 10 bins
shows good agreement at intermediate latitudes, 10<∣ b∣< 50, and little correlation …
Abstract
Magnetic fields in the ionized medium of the disk and halo of the Milky Way impose Faraday rotation on linearly polarized radio emission. We compare two surveys mapping the Galactic Faraday rotation, one showing the rotation measures of extragalactic sources seen through the Galaxy, and one showing Faraday depth of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey. Comparing the two data sets in 5× 10 bins shows good agreement at intermediate latitudes, 10<∣ b∣< 50, and little correlation between them at lower and higher latitudes. Where they agree, both tracers show clear patterns as a function of Galactic longitude, ℓ; in the northern hemisphere a strong
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