Large scale magnetic field of the Milky Way from WMAP3 data

Details Large scale magnetic field of the Milky Way from WMAP3 data Large scale magnetic field of the Milky Way from WMAP3 data

2007-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2714v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico 2007

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We report on initial results from a project to constrain the large-scale and turbulent magnetic fields of the Milky Way galaxy, which eventually will incorporate all of the relevant observational data. In this paper we fit popular large scale magnetic field models to WMAP3 polarization maps. We find that the polarization data can constrain certain model parameters but does not uniquely determine the best-fit parameters. We also find that the polarization data alone cannot distinguish between model symmetries, e.g., the existence of field reversals. We show how future UHECR data can break this degeneracy.

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