Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jrasc..88..201v&link_type=abstract
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 88, NO. 4/AUG, P. 201, 1994
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Magnetic Fields In Galaxies, Neutral Hydrogen
Scientific paper
Is the distribution of neutral hydrogen (H I) gas in the disk of a spiral galaxy linked with the shape of the global magnetic field (B) in its interstellar disk? Six spiral galaxies (Milky Way, M31, M33, IC342, M81, and NGC6946) with well mapped magnetic field and neutral hydrogen distributions are studied here. For these galaxies a preliminary answer to the question above is positive: a spiral galaxy with regularly shaped or moderately skewed HI isotopes seems to have a regular axisymmetric azimuthal magnetic field (mazim=0). Conversely, a spiral galaxy with strongly skewed or extremely skewed HI isophotes seems to have a beautifully-shaped bisymmetric azimuthal magnetic field (mazim=1).
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