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2007A&A...471L..21S - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 471, L21-24 (2007/8-4)

WSRT Faraday tomography of the Galactic ISM at λ∼0.86 m. First results for a field at (l,b) = (181°,20°).

SCHNITZELER D.H.F.M., KATGERT P. and DE BRUYN A.G.

Abstract (from CDS):

We investigate the distribution and properties of Faraday rotating and synchrotron emitting regions in the Galactic ISM in the direction of the Galactic anti-centre. We apply Faraday tomography to a radio polarization dataset that we obtained with the WSRT. We developed a new method to calculate a linear fit to periodic data, which we use to determine rotation measures from our polarization angle data. From simulations of a Faraday screen + noise we could determine how compatible the data are with Faraday screens.An unexpectedly large fraction of 14% of the lines-of-sight in our dataset show an unresolved main component in the Faraday depth spectrum. For lines-of-sight with a single unresolved component we demonstrate that a Faraday screen in front of a synchrotron emitting region that contains a turbulent magnetic field component can explain the data.

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Journal keyword(s): magnetic fields - radio continuum: ISM - ISM: magnetic fields - ISM: structure - techniques: polarimetric - techniques: miscellaneous

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