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A Survey of Recent Magnetic Field Measurements in HI Features of the Galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Carl Heiles
Carl Heiles*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California U.S.A.

Abstract

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More than 300 measurements of magnetic field strengths in H I regions now exist. Interpretation of about 100 shows that magnetic pressure either is comparable with or dominates other pressures near at least some dark clouds and in at least some H I shells. There appears to be direct evidence for Alfvén waves, but this needs to be confirmed by additional examples. In many regions the field is highly uniform, but in other regions it varies considerably over 30 arcminutes or less. The field directions derived from Zeeman splitting and from Faraday rotation do not correlate well.

Type
2. The Magnetic Field Structure of the Milky Way: The Meeting of Observation and Theory
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 35 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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