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Fluctuation dynamos and their Faraday rotation signatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Pallavi Bhat
Affiliation:
IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India. email: palvi@iucaa.ernet.in, kandu@iucaa.ernet.in
Kandaswamy Subramanian
Affiliation:
IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India. email: palvi@iucaa.ernet.in, kandu@iucaa.ernet.in
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We study fluctuation dynamo (FD) action in turbulent systems like galaxy-clusters focusing on the Faraday rotation signature. This is defined as RM = KLneBdl where ne is the thermal electron density, B is the magnetic field, the integration is along the line of sight from the source to the observer, and K = 0.81 rad m−2 cm−3 μG−1 pc−1. We directly compute, using the simulation data, ∫ Bdl, and hence the Faraday rotation measure (RM) over 3N2 lines of sight, along each x, y and z-directions. We normalise the RM by the rms value expected in a simple model, where a field of strength Brms fills each turbulent cell but is randomly oriented from one turbulent cell to another. This normalised RM is expected to have a nearly zero mean but a non-zero dispersion, σRM. We show in Fig. 1a and 1b, that a suite of simulations, on saturation, obtain the value of σRM = 0.4−0.5, and this is independent of PM, RM and the resolution of the run. This is a fairly large value for an intermittent random field; as it is of order 40%–50%, of that expected in a model where Brms strength fields volume fill each turbulent cell, but are randomly oriented from one cell to another. We also find that the regions with a field strength larger than 2Brms contribute only 15–20% to the total RM (see Fig. 1a). This shows that it is the general ‘sea’ of volume filling fluctuating fields that contribute dominantly to the RM produced, rather than the the high field regions.

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