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Ghost of a shell: Magnetic fields of galactic supershell GSH 006 - 15 + 7
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Thomson, AJM and McClure-Griffiths, NM and Federrath, C and Dickey, JM and Carretti, E and Gaensler, BM and Haverkorn, M and Kesteven, MJ and Staveley-Smith, L, Ghost of a shell: Magnetic fields of galactic supershell GSH 006 - 15 + 7, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479, (4) pp. 5620-5637. ISSN 0035-8711 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2018 The Authors. This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
DOI: doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1865
Abstract
We identify a counterpart to a Galactic supershell in diffuse radio polarization, and use this to determine the magnetic fields associated with this object. GSH 006 - 15 + 7 has perturbed the polarized emission at 2.3 GHz, as observed in the S-band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS), acting as a Faraday screen. We model the Faraday rotation over the shell, and produce a map of Faraday depth over the area across it. Such models require information about the polarized emission behind the screen, which we obtain from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scaled from 23 to 2.3 GHz, to estimate the synchrotron background behind GSH 006 - 15 + 7. Using the modelled Faraday thickness, we determine the magnitude and the plane-of-the-sky structure of the line-of-sight magnetic field in the shell. We find a peak line-of-sight field strength of |B∥|peak = 2.0+0.01-0.7 μG. Our measurement probes weak magnetic fields in a low-density regime (number densities of ∼ 0.4cm-3) of the ISM, thus providing crucial information about the magnetic fields in the partially-ionized phase.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | radio astronomy, polarisation, magnetic fields, bubbles |
Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
Research Group: | Astronomical sciences |
Research Field: | Galactic astronomy |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences |
UTAS Author: | Dickey, JM (Professor John Dickey) |
ID Code: | 133227 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | Mathematics and Physics |
Deposited On: | 2019-06-19 |
Last Modified: | 2019-07-23 |
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