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2011A&A...529A..13K - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 529A, 13-13 (2011/5-1)

Magnetic power spectra from Faraday rotation maps. REALMAF and its use on Hydra A.

KUCHAR P. and ENSSLIN T.A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We develop a novel maximum-a-posteriori method to measure magnetic power spectra from Faraday rotation data and implement it in the REALMAF code. A sophisticated model for the magnetic autocorrelation in real space permits us to alleviate previously required simplifying assumptions in the processing. We also introduce a way to treat the divergence relation of the magnetic field with a multiplicative factor in Fourier space, with which we can model the magnetic autocorrelation as a spherically symmetric function. Applied to the dataset of Hydra A north, we find a power law power spectrum on spatial scales between 0.3 kpc and 8 kpc, with no visible turnover at large scales within this range and a spectral index consistent with a Kolmogorov-like power law regime. The magnetic field strength profile seems to follow the electron density profile with an index α=1. A variation of α from 0.5 to 1.5 would lead to a spectral index between 1.55 and 2.05. The extrapolated magnetic field strength in the cluster centre highly depends on the assumed projection angle of the jet. For an angle of 45° we derive extrapolated 36µG in the centre and directly probed 16µG at 50 kpc radius.

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Journal keyword(s): magnetic fields - galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium - radio continuum: general - polarization - turbulence - plasmas

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