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The Local Magnetic Field in the Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

B. Uyaniker
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
E. Fürst
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
W. Reich
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
P. Reich
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
R. Wielebinski
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

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A radio continuum survey at medium Galactic latitudes with the 100−m telescope of the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie is being carried out at a center frequency of 1.4 GHz in total power and linear polarization. We present polarization and depolarization structures detected at medium latititudes with no corresponding observable structure in total power emission. Existence of such kind of polarization structures imply that the emission, due to the Faraday modulation of the Galactic synchrotron foreground, occurs in thin sheetlike regions. This phenomenon is a sign for fluctuating local magnetic field.

Type
Part V Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, and Interstellar Bubbles
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1998

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