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Study of the Magnetic Field of the Galaxy using Correlation Functions of the Intensity of Synchrotron Background Radio Emission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

V.R. Shoutenkov
V.R. Shoutenkov*
Affiliation:
Radioastronomy Station, Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia

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The possibility to study magnetic field of the Galaxy calculating correlation or structure functions of synchrotron background radio emission have been known long ago (Kaplan and Pikel'ner (1963); Getmantsev (1958)). But this method had not been as popular as other methods of magnetic field studies. However theoretical calculations made by Chibisov and Ptuskin (1981) showed that correlation functions of intensity of synchrotron background radio emission can give a lot of valuable information about galactic magnetic fields because of the intensity of synchrotron background radio emission depends on H⊥. According to this theory correlation C(θ, φ) and structure S(θ, φ) functions of intensity, as functions of angular separation θ between two lines of sight and position angle φ on the sky between this two lines of sight, can be presented as a sum of isotropic (not dependent from angle φ) and anisotropic parts:

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Chapter 7: How are we to Understand the Small Scale Structure of the ISM?
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 169: Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way , 1996 , pp. 615 - 616
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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