MHD Turbulence as a Foreground for CMB Studies

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2002-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205284v1

Astrophys.J. 575 (2002) L63

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures, Astrophyscal J., submitted

Scientific paper

10.1086/342722

Measurements of intensity and polarization of diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission as well as starlight polarization reveal power law spectra of fluctuations. We show that these fluctuations can arise from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the Galactic disk and halo. To do so we take into account the converging geometry of lines of sight for the observations when the observer is within the turbulent volume. Assuming that the intensity of turbulence changes along the line of sight, we get a reasonable fit to the observed synchrotron data. As for the spectra of polarized starlight we get a good fit to the observations taking into account the fact that the observational sample is biased toward nearby stars.

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