Radio polarization from the inner Galaxy at arcminute resolution

Details Radio polarization from the inner Galaxy at arcminute resolution Radio polarization from the inner Galaxy at arcminute resolution

2000-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010518v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 5 embedded EPS figures, 9 jpeg figures, uses emulateapj apjfonts. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal. Version wit

Scientific paper

10.1086/319468

The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) is an HI and 1.4-GHz continuum survey of the 4th quadrant of the Galaxy at arcmin resolution. We present here results on linearly polarized continuum emission from an initial 28-square-degree Test Region for the SGPS, consisting of 190 mosaiced pointings of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and covering the range 325.5 < l < 332.5, -0.5 < b < +3.5. Complicated extended structure is seen in linear polarization throughout the Test Region, almost all of which has no correlation with total intensity. We interpret the brightest regions of polarized emission as representing intrinsic structure in extended polarization, most likely originating in the Crux spiral arm at a distance of 3.5 kpc; fainter polarized structure is imposed by Faraday rotation in foreground material. Two large areas in the field are devoid of polarization. We argue that these voids are produced by foreground HII regions in which the magnetic field is disordered on scales of ~0.1-0.2 pc. We also identify a depolarized halo around the HII region RCW 94, which we suggest results from the interaction of the HII region with a surrounding molecular cloud.

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